Zakharova was outraged by the British attempt to make God gender-neutral

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was outraged that in England the church is going to consider using gender-neutral terms to refer to God, as reported by the British newspaper The Guardian on Wednesday.

A commission to consider this issue, including the possibility of refusing to use the pronoun “He” in relation to God, will be established in the spring. The decision came after several priests asked to be allowed to use gender-neutral terms to refer to God.

“This is nothing new,” said a spokesman for the Church of England. According to him, Christians since ancient times recognized that God is neither a man nor a woman, but the variety of ways to address God, as well as his designations found in Holy Scripture, were not always reflected in worship. At the same time, the interlocutor of the publication noted that there are no plans to cancel or revise the approved liturgies, since “such changes cannot be made without broad legislation.”

“There is an era of change,” Zakharova reacted to this in the telegram channel. “And we live in an era of substitution.”

She noted that “before our eyes, the Christian god-likeness of a person, which, according to the Gospel, can be achieved by everyone who accepts Christ and keeps the commandments, who loves and repents” in the UK, is turned “into a sexless fake, when voluntarily or involuntarily entangled in the chimera of genders automatically approaches to the god-man.”

The diplomat stated that “it’s terrible, of course, to watch all this.” And she emphasized that “for the time being, we see and realize this, which means we can separate the wheat from the chaff.”