Saturday, 28 April 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
A SAME BIGOTRY MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL
The Pope’s representative in Britain has urged Roman Catholic leaders to form a united front with their Muslim and Jewish counterparts to oppose gay marriage.
Full story at THE TELEGRAPH.
Full story at THE TELEGRAPH.
WHEN IS AN ANGLICAN NOT AN ANGLICAN?
From THE CHURCH TIMES:
The Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh, and the Archbishop of Kenya, Dr Eliud Wabukala, suggested this week that the Archbishop of Canterbury should no longer chair the Primates’ Meeting. The chairman should instead be elected by the Primates themselves, they said.
Archbishop Okoh said: “My thought is that it will be better to have an Archbishop [of Canterbury] who is respected, honoured, for historical reasons, but that the Anglican Communion eventually should think about organising itself around a chairman, who will have a tenured office, of four or five years, and then hand over to another person.”
He continued: “It seems that the Church of England is not carrying along everybody in the Communion, and that is why you can see there is a crisis; if we will solve the problem, we have to change the system.”
Asked if any Primate, such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, would be eligible to stand as chairman, Dr Wabukala said that the position should be open to “those who subscribe to what the Anglican Communion stands for”. Asked to elaborate further, he said that the Jerusalem Declaration, which was drawn up at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem in 2008 (News, 4 July 2008), “captures exactly what almost everybody is looking for”.
Now this is what happens when a person in a purely symbolic post gets ideas above his station and starts acting like he is the pope of the Anglican Communion and takes to politicking in order to gain more power for himself. Of course, it was only a matter of time before power grabbers such as the Head of the Family Firm and racist's with a chip on their shoulder would want a piece of the uber-archepiscopal action.
What the narrow minded bigots of unenlightened Bibliolatry are suggesting is actually, in the new dispensation foisted upon us by the machinations of Lambeth Palace during the last decade, perfectly reasonable. No democrat could argue against it. However, it is guaranteed to speed up the demise of the Anglican Communion. Remember, the English dioceses voted against the Anglican Covenant because they did not want to hand the running of their province over to foreign control. No way would they ever approve of this back door grab for pseudo-covenantal power by foreign prelates. And the US branch of the Anglican Communion won't even be invited to join, that much has been made patently obvious.
So, why go to all the expense of having an international (all expenses paid) fight over this if the outcome, the end of the Anglican Communion, is unavoidable? It would be less costly and less stressful if we just all became independent provinces claiming the title "Anglican" if we wish and united only by voluntary and casual agreement made between individual provinces. The bishops could still meet up for their ten year freebie in Canterbury; the primates could even boost their egos by having special meetings just for people with "arch" in front of their title (excluding the Head of the Family Firm who isn't a real archbishop). But no extra-provincial meeting, group, association or conference should have any authority to tie their provinces into any agreement whatsoever. It would work. I know it would work because that is how most of our social lives work. When you make friends with someone or fall in love with someone, you don't first sit down and decide on a whole set of rules that you both have to adhere to. Relationships are about constant accommodation and negotiation. No relationship is democratic. Our relationship with God is just the same. If God was the Archbishop of Nigeria humankind would have gone to hell in a handbasket on the eighth day of creation.
The Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh, and the Archbishop of Kenya, Dr Eliud Wabukala, suggested this week that the Archbishop of Canterbury should no longer chair the Primates’ Meeting. The chairman should instead be elected by the Primates themselves, they said.
Archbishop Okoh said: “My thought is that it will be better to have an Archbishop [of Canterbury] who is respected, honoured, for historical reasons, but that the Anglican Communion eventually should think about organising itself around a chairman, who will have a tenured office, of four or five years, and then hand over to another person.”
He continued: “It seems that the Church of England is not carrying along everybody in the Communion, and that is why you can see there is a crisis; if we will solve the problem, we have to change the system.”
Asked if any Primate, such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, would be eligible to stand as chairman, Dr Wabukala said that the position should be open to “those who subscribe to what the Anglican Communion stands for”. Asked to elaborate further, he said that the Jerusalem Declaration, which was drawn up at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem in 2008 (News, 4 July 2008), “captures exactly what almost everybody is looking for”.
Now this is what happens when a person in a purely symbolic post gets ideas above his station and starts acting like he is the pope of the Anglican Communion and takes to politicking in order to gain more power for himself. Of course, it was only a matter of time before power grabbers such as the Head of the Family Firm and racist's with a chip on their shoulder would want a piece of the uber-archepiscopal action.
What the narrow minded bigots of unenlightened Bibliolatry are suggesting is actually, in the new dispensation foisted upon us by the machinations of Lambeth Palace during the last decade, perfectly reasonable. No democrat could argue against it. However, it is guaranteed to speed up the demise of the Anglican Communion. Remember, the English dioceses voted against the Anglican Covenant because they did not want to hand the running of their province over to foreign control. No way would they ever approve of this back door grab for pseudo-covenantal power by foreign prelates. And the US branch of the Anglican Communion won't even be invited to join, that much has been made patently obvious.
So, why go to all the expense of having an international (all expenses paid) fight over this if the outcome, the end of the Anglican Communion, is unavoidable? It would be less costly and less stressful if we just all became independent provinces claiming the title "Anglican" if we wish and united only by voluntary and casual agreement made between individual provinces. The bishops could still meet up for their ten year freebie in Canterbury; the primates could even boost their egos by having special meetings just for people with "arch" in front of their title (excluding the Head of the Family Firm who isn't a real archbishop). But no extra-provincial meeting, group, association or conference should have any authority to tie their provinces into any agreement whatsoever. It would work. I know it would work because that is how most of our social lives work. When you make friends with someone or fall in love with someone, you don't first sit down and decide on a whole set of rules that you both have to adhere to. Relationships are about constant accommodation and negotiation. No relationship is democratic. Our relationship with God is just the same. If God was the Archbishop of Nigeria humankind would have gone to hell in a handbasket on the eighth day of creation.
Thursday, 26 April 2012
WHERE THE FECK HAVE YOU BEEN?
I've just got back from clearing my in laws' house out ready for sale (they have both moved into residential care). A week of rats, mice, 60 years of hoarded junk and a smell that would turn Dr. Maura Isles' stomach (dead rat in the airing cupboard). It has been hell. Glad to be back.
Thanks for your concern everybody. I'm always wary of publicising that I will be away at a specific time.
Thanks for your concern everybody. I'm always wary of publicising that I will be away at a specific time.
DON'T BLAME MADPRIEST, BLAME MAD DAD
A woman and a baby were in the doctor's examining room waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby's first exam. The doctor arrived, showed them into his surgery, examined the baby, checked his weight, and being a little concerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed or bottle-fed.
'Breast-fed,' the woman replied.
'Well, strip down to your waist,' the doctor ordered.
She did. He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and detailed examination.
Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said, 'No wonder this baby is underweight. You don't have any milk."
'I know,' she said. 'I'm his Grandma, but I'm glad I came.'
'Breast-fed,' the woman replied.
'Well, strip down to your waist,' the doctor ordered.
She did. He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and detailed examination.
Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said, 'No wonder this baby is underweight. You don't have any milk."
'I know,' she said. 'I'm his Grandma, but I'm glad I came.'
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
From VARSITY:
OCICBW... has been trying to contact Miss Mastership for her comments all day but we have so far been unsuccessful.
OCICBW... has been trying to contact Miss Mastership for her comments all day but we have so far been unsuccessful.
PRIVILEGED TORY TOFF TO CHOOSE
NEXT ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
OCICBW... can now reveal that the next Archbishop of Canterbury will be the same ole same ole (as if there was any doubt about this in the first place). The bloke that our conservative prime minister has chosen (no doubt, in consultation with the "right sort of people" in the Church of England's unelected higher echelons) to head up the Crown Nominations Commission, charged with finding a successor to Rowan Williams, is Lord Richard Napier Luce, Baron Luce, KG, GCVO, PC, DL. Never having to want for anything and being completely cocooned from the reality of everyday existence all his life makes him the ideal person to choose another establishment free-rider whose idea of real human suffering is running out of milk just before Lord and Lady Wotsit are due to pop round for coffee and canapés.
Lord Luce's background of privilege and jobs for the boys has forced me to reduce the odds on the present Bishop of Durham getting the top job to 3-1.
From WIKIPEDIA:
Born in Westminster, Luce was educated at Wellington College, and Christ's College, Cambridge. He completed National Service in Cyprus 1955–57. He then briefly joined the Overseas Civil Service, first as a district officer in Kenya, 1960–62. He then worked for Gallaher Ltd as a brand manager (1963–65), before becoming marketing manager for the Spirella Company of Great Britain. In 1968–71 he was director of the National Innovation Centre.
From 1972 to 1979, he was Chairman of IFA Consultants Ltd, he was also chair of Selenex Ltd (1973–79), and of Courtenay Stewart International (1975–79).
Lord Luce was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and Shoreham in a by-election in 1971. He was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Trade and Consumer Affairs in 1972. After the Conservative Party lost the February 1974 general election, he became an Opposition whip. When the Conservatives returned to power at the 1979 general election, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1981, he was promoted to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs within the same department. In 1982, he followed his Secretary of State, Lord Carrington, in resigning over the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands. Some blamed Luce for having given the wrong indications to the Argentinians, leading them to believe that the UK would not respond to the invasion. However he returned to office in 1983, again as a Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1985, he was moved to the Privy Council Office as Minister for the Arts, which was his last ministerial office. He resigned in 1990.
He was knighted in 1991, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1986. In 1997, he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar, an office he held until 2000, when he was created a Life Peer as Baron Luce, of Adur in the County of West Sussex. In 2000 he was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) and became Lord Chamberlain in HM The Queen's Royal Household. Lord Luce was created a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 22 April 2008. The Order of the Garter is the highest Order of Chivalry in the United Kingdom and is in the personal bestowal of HM The Queen.
The other contenders for the post of Chair of the Crown Nominations Commission, Mr. Fred Arkwright, an unemployed waste disposal operative, from Cleckheaton, and Sally Smith, who works at a call centre in Billericay selling double glazing, received no votes at all.
From WIKIPEDIA:
Lord Luce was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and Shoreham in a by-election in 1971. He was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Trade and Consumer Affairs in 1972. After the Conservative Party lost the February 1974 general election, he became an Opposition whip. When the Conservatives returned to power at the 1979 general election, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1981, he was promoted to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs within the same department. In 1982, he followed his Secretary of State, Lord Carrington, in resigning over the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands. Some blamed Luce for having given the wrong indications to the Argentinians, leading them to believe that the UK would not respond to the invasion. However he returned to office in 1983, again as a Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1985, he was moved to the Privy Council Office as Minister for the Arts, which was his last ministerial office. He resigned in 1990.
He was knighted in 1991, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1986. In 1997, he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar, an office he held until 2000, when he was created a Life Peer as Baron Luce, of Adur in the County of West Sussex. In 2000 he was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) and became Lord Chamberlain in HM The Queen's Royal Household. Lord Luce was created a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 22 April 2008. The Order of the Garter is the highest Order of Chivalry in the United Kingdom and is in the personal bestowal of HM The Queen. The other contenders for the post of Chair of the Crown Nominations Commission, Mr. Fred Arkwright, an unemployed waste disposal operative, from Cleckheaton, and Sally Smith, who works at a call centre in Billericay selling double glazing, received no votes at all.
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