St. Charles Lwanga and Companions ... Feast Day today. They were martyred because they refused to be involved in homosexual practices.
Charles was one of twenty-two Ugandan martyrs who converted from paganism. He was baptized November 1885, a year before his death, and became a moral leader. He was the chief of the royal pages and was considered the strongest athlete of the court. He was also known as "the most handsome man of the Kingdom of the Uganda." He instructed his friends in the Catholic Faith and he personally baptized boy pages. He inspired and encouraged his companions to remain chaste and faithful. He protected his companions, ages 13-30, from the immoral acts and homosexual demands of the Babandan ruler, Mwanga.
Mwanga was a superstitious pagan king who originally was tolerant of Catholicism. However, his chief assistant, Katikiro, slowly convinced him that Christians were a threat to his rule. The premise was if these Christians would not bow to him, nor make sacrifices to their pagan god, nor pillage, massacre, nor make war, what would happen if his whole kingdom converted to Catholicism?
Detterling you have achieved something I thought could never happen. I never thought that I would ever encounter in another person the level of malice that I met with in my first wife. But in recent weeks you have surpassed that.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be poetic justice if in the afterlife you and my first wife both met up in the bottomless pit?
By the way, Swashbuckling Mulligan has been in contact with me. He is writing an open letter to you. He has asked me if I will publish it on 'GENE: a voice in the wilderness'. I have of course agreed.
GENE
Oh, for fuck's sake, Gene, the excreta of your diseased mind resonate with me about as much as would a fart be heard in a thunderstorm.
DeleteYou are reduced to accusations of malice purely because you have been stingingly humiliated in every fight you have, foolishly and ineffectually, picked with me in the last three months.
As for your first wife, I applaud the providential insight that made her realise what a travesty of a husband you were, and ditched you. My sympathy is with Marianne, who many correspondents have told me is a good, kind, caring and generously spirited woman, who has deserved better than to be saddled with a basket case like you as a husband.
As for Swashbuckling Mulligan, do stop it. Do you seriously imagine that I don't know it is you? and do you seriously imagine that I will take any more notice your piffling bombast simply because you pretend that it has been written by somebody else? you pathetic little gobshite.
And you were best not to keep vapouring about bottomless pits and other superstitious crap, let alone Swashbuckling Fucking Mulligan, because it is beginning to irritate me, and that is something you were best not to do.
"My sympathy is with Marianne, who many correspondents have told me..."
DeleteNo correspondents have told you anything. The nearest you came to this was when a snake in the grass, Anonymous of Northwood, promised you dirt on me. I silenced him - and how!
Yes, by blackmailing him and then bragging about it. And this is the two faced weasel who bleats about “free speech” whenever it looks as though he might have to take responsibility for his dirty minded lies and squalid nastiness. But Mr Anonymous wasn’t my only correspondent in the matter of Marianne. I had several interesting emails from NUT correspondents about her. A lovely woman and a person of genuine integrity, “far too good for a bastard like him”. I must dig them out and see about publishing some of it in here.
Delete"And you were best not to keep vapouring about bottomless pits and other superstitious crap, let alone Swashbuckling Fucking Mulligan, because it is beginning to irritate me, and that is something you were best not to do"
ReplyDeleteOoh! Matron!