I have had an email from Mary Winterbourne. She is absolutely furious...
"Can you believe it Gene? The cheek of the Church of England asking us to pay homage to Charles. Will they expect us to bring along gold, frankincense and myrrh to Buckingham Palace? "
" I can believe anything about the C of E Mary," I replied.
Yes, this really is outrageous. The Church of England Busybody must be turning in her grave - she had her faults but she would never condone such blasphemy.
Detterling let me hear your defence of Welby & Co.
Oops! Sorry I forgot. You can't provide any defence can you?
GENE
Oh, Christ, not Mary “lame figment of Gene’s impoverished imagination“ Winterbourne again.
ReplyDeleteWhy not tell us why you continue to maintain these preposterous lies about your “writing” (sic) “career”?
Detterling let me hear your defence of Welby & Co.
ReplyDeleteOops! Sorry I forgot. You can't provide any defence can you?
GENE
"Detterling let me hear your defence of Welby & Co. Oops! Sorry I forgot. You can't provide any defence can you?"
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you scoff and sneer - but only because you assume that have succeeded in placing me in an entirely false position.
Welby's suggestion that everyone should pay personal homage to HMK Charles III was, even for him, a fatheaded idea, and one which a great number of intelligent Anglicans have scorned. The thing is, Gene, that in the C of E we don't have to follow a dogmatic party line laid down by an "infallible" [sic] pope. So when our senior clergy say something stupid we can say so without being charged by lame-brained bigots like you of "heresy" or some other mediaeval transgression.
That is not good enough. Bishops and priests in the C of E should have spoken out against this absurd proposal. Incidentally, the only public figure I have heard condemn Welby over this has been Jonathan Dimbelby.
DeleteWill you Detterling have the guts to publicly deplore this? Your record says no. Wouldn't it be great if your parish magazine/newsletter have a headline such as:
DETTERLING CALLS OUT WELBY et al OVER 'HOMAGE' FIASCO.
But that won't happen.
GENE
Gene, you don't give two straws about this any more than I do - Welby is a fool, and that is all that there is to say on the subject. The reason why few people argue with him when he comes out with fatheaded things like the allegiance pledge is because to do so would be to take him far more seriously than he deserves.
DeleteAnd as for calling out Welby over his various stupidities, I have written often and at length in local diocesan publications of his incompetence and ineptitude over same sex marriage and homosexuality in general - some of which earned me small thanks from arseholes like you.
You are simply trying to create an artificical argument to distract attention from your most recent humiliation over Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths.
In which connection why don’t you tell us why you perpetuate these fantastic lies about being a “full time professional writer” (sic)? What sort of”full time professional writer” (sic) writes and publishes fuck-all in SEVEN YEARS? And what sort of “full time professional writer” (sic) keeps setting new publication dates for a “novel” (sic) he hasn’t written?
But enough of that. Why don’t you tell us why you perpetuate these fantastic lies about being a “full time professional writer” (sic)? What sort of”full time professional writer” (sic) writes and publishes fuck-all in SEVEN YEARS? And what sort of “full time professional writer” (sic) keeps setting new publication dates for a “novel” (sic) he hasn’t written?
ReplyDelete"Gene, you don't give two straws about this any more than I do"
ReplyDeleteOh! yes I do. AND IF YOU DON'T THEN YOU SHOULD.
And believe me this is not the end of the matter.
GENE
No, Gene, stop posturing. If you didn’t want to swear allegiance to King Jug Ears, nobody made you. And, as preposterous, foolish and arrogant as Welby’s suggestion was, it was no more so than Joseph Ratzinger’s vapourings about homosexuality, which you were happy to swallow whole. Or Vincent Nichols’s similar sloganisings, attitudes sitting badly with his actions as the paedophile priests’ protector.
ReplyDeleteStop trying to divert us from your latest Granny Barkes humiliation with feigned indignation about a non issue.