Talk:Ole Christian Kvarme

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--JAJ 09:09, July 15, 2005 (UTC) Just some comments on the text regarding Bishop Kvarme.

First of all it may not be correct to call him a very conservative theologian. Conservative indeed when compared to the liberals in the Church of Norway, but in most issues both central and in dispute within Nowegian Christendom he is a far from an extremist. Hence I would challange the description of him being a very conservative theologian, a description that would place him alongside fundamentalists in the Church of Norway.

It is correct that the Church of Norway does not have an archbishop, but it is not so that the bishop of Oslo is currently acting as the preses (primus inter pares) in the Church of Norway Bishops' Conference. The present preses is the bishop of Nidaros, bishop Finn.

--modin217.118.59.58 23:48, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I think people should have in their thoughts that this english version of the article is not primarly made with the purpose of being reed by Norwegians. Because of that its pointless to try to make the inpression of Kvarme beeing conservative (no americans would considered him conservative), among christians in Norway he is considered mainstream. The only problem its all the Norwegian church members (we have a state controlled church, kind of like the one i China) who not considered themself christians who have the impression of Kvarme beeing a conservative. The old Bishop Gunnar Stålsett wouldn't even been considered a Christian among evangelicals in the USA (and Norway to). The article also makes the impresion that Kvarme wasn't wanted by the people in the Norwegian Church. Thats a lie he won the election among, priest and bishops in the church, and its mostly gay-rights groups, and other extremes that have been fighting agains him, using the media as a weapon.

Gay rights groups are 'extreme'? Anyways, proof that Kvarme is a christian conservative: [1] Joffeloff 22:22, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

This is so absurd. This biography is clearly biased against Bishop Kvarme, and I'm not even surprised about it, considering how "Modern Liberals" really are descendents of 19th century Progressives, who in turn had a very totalitarian vision for the society and would not tolerate any dissent whatsoever. In the past we had Josef Stalin starving the Kulaks to death and these days we have the prosecution of the Rev. Ake Green for preaching his religion. For more evidence of "liberal" (read "totalitarian") bigotry, please see the comment above. --James Chang, of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jesus, how did I get it right every time? The priest who got passed over was a Socialist-Left (whatever that even means) politician. Now we clearly see why the totalitarians are offended :) --James Chang