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My satire lambasting Detterling for his hypocrisy in supporting euthanasia will be published on Candlemas Day 2nd February 2025

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Hi Gene and all,

I have been keeping my eye on everything and, yes Gene, I shall be writing a satire lambasting Detterling for his nauseous hypocrisy in supporting euthanasia while calling himself a Christian.

How can this man have the gall to call himself a Christian?

He supports abortion  -  something forbidden by the Church.

He supports sodomy  -  something forbidden by the Church.

He supports euthanasia  -  something forbidden by the Church.

Watch this space!

What larks Detterling!

Swashbuckling Mulligan

 

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John 1:35-42 What are you seeking?

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Painting by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606–1669), Painted in 1653, Oil on canvas © Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gospel Reading

At that time: John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God!’ The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, ‘What are you seeking?’ And they said to him, ‘Rabbi’ (which means Teacher), ‘where are you staying?’ He said to them, ‘Come and you will see.’ So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, ‘You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas’ (which means Peter).

Reflection on the painting

The opening words spoken by Jesus in the four Gospels vary significantly. In John’s gospel, his first words are the question found in today’s reading: ‘What are you seeking?’ Jesus addresses this question to two disciples of John the Baptist who have started to follow him. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus frequently asks questions. But probably his first question to us in John's Gospel is the most important one: What is it we really want? What is it we really seek? As we begin a new year, it is especially meaningful to hear this question, as a personal call to examine our own hearts and desires for the year to come. Shortly after, Jesus speaks again to these disciples, offering an invitation: ‘Come and see.’ The first question and the invitation are deeply connected. At the start of a new year, we are encouraged to connect with our deepest longing to encounter the Lord and grow closer to Him. In doing so, we allow ourselves to see and know him as he sees and knows us. As we step into this new chapter, we can let Jesus’ question and invitation guide us, inspiring us to seek Him more intentionally in the year ahead. The act of asking questions and seeking answers is a fundamental dynamic of life. Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer beautifully captures this process, as Aristotle is depicted in deep contemplation, reflecting on the questions and insights posed by Homer’s work. This scene evokes the timeless journey of inquiry and discovery, a journey central to the Christian life. In our faith, too, we are called to ask questions, engage in study, meditate deeply, and open our hearts to God’s wisdom. Through this ongoing process, our understanding and relationship with God deepens, guiding us toward answers that illuminate our path. In our painting we see the richly clad Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BCE) resting his hand pensively on a bust of Homer, the epic poet who had attained literary immortality with his Iliad and Odyssey centuries before. Aristotle wears a gold medallion with a portrait of his powerful pupil, Alexander the Great. Perhaps the philosopher is weighing his own worldly success against Homer’s timeless achievement.

by Father Patrick van der Vorst

 ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM SWASHBUCKLING MULLIGAN RE DETTERLING.

So this pathetic excuse for a man, Detterling, supports abortion, defends the vile sin of sodomy and supports assisted suicide? How does the aging tosser have the gall to call himself a Christian?

I demolished Detterling over his nauseating hypocrisy on his gay lobby stance. And how!

["I wish to know what you genuinely feel about my engaging in homosexual acts. Now Pops, I must be brutally honest with you. I feel that, despite the pinko/liberal claptrap you come out with on this subject, you would be totally abhorred at the thought of my engaging in what the Church describe as depraved sin."

Detterling looked aghast. He face turned puce. He tried to rise from the settee. He gave a few stertorous gasps and then fell back on the settee and collapsed dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Detterling was as dead as a door-nail."]

Detterling this knocked you for six and left you a quivering jelly. But just wait and see what my next satire, a satire on you and your ilk supporting the evil of euthanasia, will do! 

Gene has nailed you as a neo Nazi in supporting policies carried out by the Nazis. My satire will build on that and give you the lambasting you deserve.

Watch this space!

SWASHBUCKLING MULLIGAN