Looking Through The Prism Of Power

The Church Of England has appointed a woman to be the new Bishop of Stockport. This is supposed to be all very cool and Equal, but it is hardly Christian. Christianity is all about service, not power, and the entire State Feminist agenda is all about reinforcing power at the expense of Love. Yet we know that God is Love.
Modern people see hierarchical power as natural. From the moment they go to school, they meet Power in the shape of the teacher. The little children put on a uniform and they learn submission to Power. Such relations of submission carry on throughout adult life. It is pretty much all modern people know. The flip side to the daily humiliation is a kind of nihilistic hedonism. It may be fun for a while but it is not freedom.
Contrary to the modern  experience throughout the ages people experienced Power only marginally, as something intrusive and invasive, hence the special loathing for soldiers  and tax collectors. Most communities consisted of large families and guild, craft, and religious fraternities. Self help and mutual aid, Cooperative societies whether church or lay, were normal in Merry England right up to Lloyd George's People's Budget just over a hundred years ago.
Human reality was seen through the prism of love. The most important work, that of caring for the young and the old, house work and house maintainance, cooking, sewing, washing, growing food was all done unpaid, outside of the formal economy and outside of the power structure.
But now freedom has withered and with it the Christian Churches. It has been a long slow death for many mainstream churches. They betrayed the people, teaching reward and punishment, supporting wars, presenting themselves as part of the apparatus of power.
Christianity sees things through the prism of Love. Nobody in the Church has 'Power'. A minister or a bishop is there to serve God and his congregation. There are many of us who could do a better sermon than many a minister, many who are perhaps kinder or wiser, but that does not mean that we must thrust ourselves forward.
Modern Feminism does not try to abolish the power structures of the present. Equality does not mean the destruction of hierarchy. It is simply a means of dragging women into the same degradation as men. When I deal with women civil servants I am always saddened by their viciousness and their lies, their loyalty to their institution and their careers, the way they turn their backs on me, a poor peasant.
The new Bishop of Stockport is not liberated. Her coat is not the mantel of Love, but the chain mail of power. She is not exalted, she is degraded. Adolfina is dressing in Adolf's clothes.