Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Francesca Stavrakopoulou, from atheist, to an apostate christian. Can such a thing be acceptable?

In case you didn't know Francesca Stavrakopolou (hey, she has Greek heritage, hence, the difficulty of pronouncing her last name), she is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion in the University of Exeter's department of Theology and Religion. She has featured on the BBC, and some other programs in the History Channel. I have blogged on her before, how she as an atheist, is a biblical scholar.


Well, now she seems to have accepted the Christian message, but I don't see much progress in her "supposedly" conversion. Why is it that I don't trust her new confession of faith? Well, read this retweet:


Some seem to be happy that at least she is saying she is a christian now. But what sort of Christian is willing to support gay marriage? 

Being an atheist, she wanted to rule her life. Being a "christian" who supports gay marriage, she still wants to rule her life. 

I don't buy it. I think that maybe she did the original retweet, or maybe she converted into a a liberal kind of Christianity, which is not christianity at all.

Anyway, lots of guys like her, because of her looks for sure. But if they get happy that she has 'converted' to christianity, or at least to the liberal type of christianity, sorry, but to me, that's not progress at all. 

4 comments:

Jim said...

you know, don't you, that my post was tongue in cheek.

Luis Jovel said...

Well, I still enjoyed it!!

Thanks for posting Dr. West. It is a privileged!!

Jude Malachi said...
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Jude Malachi said...

That she retweeted this is no proof of any conversion--this is the same kind of flimsy reasoning she uses to construct her radical feminist motivated theories. In any event, I found it because after watching a couple of episodes of The Bible's Buried Secrets I wondered if her beliefs weren't motivated by some sexual identity ideological commitment. Consequently, this retweet makes much more sense if she were say a lesbian, for example, than that she is convert. In other words, it is as if she is saying, "hey, as an atheist theologian I would like to see Christianity embrace homosexuality." I don't believe she is rabidly hostile to Christianity--only because while she might have radically spurious beliefs she doesn't appear to have the kind of personality, it seems, to support a Dawkins' like anti-Christian fundamentalism. Nevertheless it is clear that for a "theologian" she doesn't understand the first thing about Christianity.