Episcopal Priest Claims Jesus Has ‘Integrity Issues’ and Needed to ‘Grow Beyond His Original Programming’ So He’d Stop Spewing ‘Garbage’

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Ethan Alexander Jewett is an Episcopal priest known by his online moniker @jackedpriest. An avid bodybuilder in his spare time, he is the openly gay leader of the demonic lair St. George St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, PA, where he’s been shacking up with his “partner” of three years.

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In a recent sermon, Jewett took aim at Jesus’ interaction with the Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7 when he told her “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs” and she replied “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

“I think it really highlights the fact that if Jesus is fully human as well as fully divine, then Jesus was shaped by the socio, cultural, historical context in which he had been born.”

Describing Jesus’ behavior as “heartless,” “problematic,” and “dehumanizing,” he says that after the woman answered back, Jesus realized that he got “read” and was sobered by the realization.

It shows that Jesus is fully human, just like us, because Jesus can learn. Jesus can change his mind. How many of us, as we’ve developed, have said and done things, held very narrow-minded perspectives that we regret now? And some brave soul said, ‘look here. It’s time for some truth-telling.’ And they handed that to us, and we’re like, ‘my bad. You’re right. I’m sorry.’

Jewett insists that “Jesus was a product of his society, his time, his place, his cultural grounding, his religious grounding” and that their verbal skirmish showed that “even our Lord could be instructed, could be taught, could learn and grow beyond his original programming.” He concludes:

“Because what that Syrophoenician woman said is, ‘you say you believe these things, just like you tell the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and look at that garbage that just came out of your mouth.’ And (Jesus) was like, ‘oh man, you are right. I did say I believe that, and yet I did not practice that.’

So even Jesus shows a little struggle with integrity in that moment, which he very quickly rebounds from because it shows that he’s self-aware, that he can learn.