The ‘theatre of the absurd’ is a term applied to plays written by a number of European playwrights in the 1950s.Among its features are that ‘logical construction and argument give way to irrational and illogical speech’ – according to Wikipedia.
A similar term – ‘church of the absurd’ – might rightly be applied to the current Church of England. You couldn’t make it up – although apparently the CofE is, at least when it comes to what it believes about contemporary moral issues.
Jesus clearly says a house divided against itself cannot stand. But the fact is there are two completely irreconcilable positions within the denomination – and attempts to describe them merely as disagreements, as the Archbishop of Canterbury feebly told Synod, are facile, patronising, and insulting. The whole situation is a complete farrago of nonsense, tragically confusing for many ordinary church members, and a disgraceful witness to the watching world.
