A leading bishop in the Church of England has triggered fury in British religious circles by likening the debate over allowing female bishops to the "serious threat" of warfare posed by the Nazis on the eve of World War II.
Bishop of Lewes Wallace Benn told a conference of conservative Anglicans in Hoddesdon, England that, with the conflict over women bishops, "I feel very much increasingly that we're in January of 1939."
Benn, who's due to retire in two years, warned his audience that "I'm about to use an analogy, and I use it quite deliberately and carefully. And it slightly frightens me to use it, but I do think it's where we are at."
So those who seek to open all of the Church's ministries to all of the baptized are just like Adolf Hitler and the Nazis? No wonder Church of England attendance continues to drop.
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