So let's be clear about this: The Anglican Communion is Protestant. The Church of England is Protestant.
Got that everyone?
At the Coronation we heard Charles affirm that he is Protestant and will uphold the Protestant Faith. Some High Anglicans and other Protestants attest that they are Catholic not Protestant. The Church of England Busybody (R.I.P.) would go into apoplexy if she was called Protestant. (And she was by me! Tee! Hee! Hee!)
The C of E upholds the Thirty Nine Articles and ergo is indisputably Protestant. And by the way what a rum collection the Thirty Nine Articles are. Consider this Article:
Works Before Justification
Works done before receiving the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasing to God. This is because they do not spring out of faith in Jesus Christ. Nor do they make people fit to receive grace or (as the schoolmen say) to deserve grace of congruity. On the contrary, because they are not done as God has willed and commanded that they should be done, it is undoubtedly the case that they have the nature of sin
What are we to make of this in today's world?
GENE
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The Thirty Nine Articles discounts the existence of Purgatory. No wonder the Church of England is f**ked.
Gene - stop trying to pose as a serious commentator on church affairs - no one cares for your pissy little opinions. What a sad and silly little man you are. Pissed already and it's only mid afternoon.
ReplyDeleteAnd in any case the doctrine of purgatory is not in the least scriptural. It was invented in the twelfth century and by the early thirteenth the Catholic church was setting out the length of time a soul might have to spend in purgatory - and of course the scale of charges required to purchase indulgences to qualify for time off. A grubby scam - no wonder Gene Vincent approves of it.
ReplyDeleteGRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS – THE WHOLE PATHETIC SAGA.
ReplyDeleteAfter claiming in late 2019 that this dismal sub-James Joyce crap, Finnegans Wake twenty times watered and only 1, 972 words long, had been accepted for publication by a “Californian publisher” [in a post which has, mysteriously, since been taken down], Gene has offered a series of excuses for its continued non-appearance ranging from nonsensical to profoundly nonsensical.
The whole of the 2020 blog has also disappeared, largely because its progress during that year amounted to a series of total humiliations for Gene after he fell for a sequence of outrageous hoaxes wrought upon him by Detterling. During 2020, however, Gene was able to capitalise on the pandemic to account for the continued non-appearance of his non-existent novel. It is typical of Gene that he used a national and international tragedy to stop him from looking like the liar and fraud that he is – utterly, callously selfish. “Millions of people dead in a pandemic? Never mind that - it’s the perfect excuse I need to avoid being caught out in a lie.” Utter filth.
Nonetheless, Gene posted this on February 12th, 2021:
GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS TO BE PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2021
April 2021 came and went, and no publication emerged. If Gene published an excuse he has since taken it down. However that might be, the next three months were taken up with one of Gene’s most degrading humiliations [leading to a performance on his part of outstanding grubbiness, seediness and idiocy. This was when Detterling hoaxed him into believing that he, Detterling, had died. Wonderful stuff and vintage Detterling. Next, we got this on Sunday, 31 October 2021:
GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS TO BE PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 1st 2022 – Official
The next we heard was this ludicrously feeble excuse:
Sunday, 23 January 2022
GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS ... "sorry folks, another delay: Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths was scheduled to be published on 1st February 2022. This will now be delayed over copyright complications with regard to Johnny Bluenote's paintings which are to be used in the book. Johnny Bluenote is a long-term friend of Gene. He is an exceptionally talented painter and photographer. The American abstract artist, Franz Kline, has been a big influence on Johnny Bluenote's work."
[Johnny Bluenote doesn’t exist any more than his paintings do. The name was one of Gene’s sockpuppets back on TES Opinion and the only painting Gene has ever done was to creosote his garden shed].
Never mind: stagger forward to Friday, 3 June 2022:
"Sorry folks, another slight delay with the publication of GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS. It looks now like publication will be in October/November 2022. At least we were spared some ridiculous excuse on this occasion. On the other hand, Gene did try to keep the pot warm with this “teaser”:
Friday, 26 August 2022
The fish in the pond are seeing red
As Bobby is fishing with Coates strong thread
(From the soon to be Published GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS.)
Which brings us more or less up to date with this, even if it does revive the Johnny Bluenote nonsense.
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
GRANNY BARKES UPDATE...
"Well folks it looks like Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths WILL HIT THE BOOKSHELVES AT LONG LAST IN MARCH 2023. There has been a slight delay because of the copyright of the illustrations to be used. Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths will be illustrated with a number of specially commissioned original paintings by Johnny Bluenote."
And of course it makes no reference to the purported avoidance of a clash with the publication of Detterling’s memoirs, given that Gene only thought it up on Monday. Game, set and match, yet again, to Detterling, and another embarrassingly feeble performance by Gene. And you have to wince at the level of barminess evinced by Gene's promise to autograph the first 10,000 copies. That is serious psychosis, the poor sod.
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