Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Aptronym alert!
The little tempest in a London cathedral is a healthy dispute over the basic point of Christianity.
St Paul's was being Occupied by hippies, and the management finally got tired and cleaned the hippies out. Now two of its main officials have resigned:
There's no doubt which side old JC himself would have taken. Old JC's purpose as a reformer was simple. He saw that Jews had become totally corrupted by money and by association with Roman power, and he wanted to create a religious system that would accommodate the needs of normal people. He wanted a religion that would reject money and power.
In the modern world, things haven't changed. The Jews are still the money-changers, still the vectors of infinite greed, still associating with Roman (now called EU) imperial force.
Over the centuries, the successors of JC have generally followed the Jews into corruption and greed, and the Anglicans are an especially atrocious example. St Paul's intimate association with power goes back 500 years: check out the origin of the phrase robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Every now and then a reform movement arises, trying to take the church back to JC's purpose, but most of the reform movements fall back into Jewish behavior after a generation or so. For example, the Pentecostal movement started as a highly emotional direct God-contact for poor oppressed people, and quickly evolved into the Prosperity Doctrine and Tammy Faye.
These resignations of St Paul officials are important and unusual, because they show a desire for reform inside a Jewish-style temple of greed.
Now for the aptronym: "Last night, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Dr Richard Chartres, was forced to take charge of the cathedral’s operations."
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Update: Looks like the dispute has awakened or emboldened the Anglicans. The Archbishop is starting to sound more like a real Christian and less like an aristocrat:
Exactly right. Real Christian advice. Also real Islamic advice and plain old human advice!
St Paul's was being Occupied by hippies, and the management finally got tired and cleaned the hippies out. Now two of its main officials have resigned:
Yesterday the row over the protest, intended to highlight an “unsustainable financial system” claimed another victim as Rt Rev Graeme Knowles resigned saying his position had become "untenable".
His departure followed those of the Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, Rev Dr Giles Fraser, earlier this week and part-time chaplain Fraser Dyer.
The dean announced that the historic cathedral had closed its doors for the first time since the Second World War because of fears over health and safety on October 21.
He asked demonstrators to move on, while the former canon chancellor and chaplain resigned because of the way the controversy had been handled.
There's no doubt which side old JC himself would have taken. Old JC's purpose as a reformer was simple. He saw that Jews had become totally corrupted by money and by association with Roman power, and he wanted to create a religious system that would accommodate the needs of normal people. He wanted a religion that would reject money and power.
In the modern world, things haven't changed. The Jews are still the money-changers, still the vectors of infinite greed, still associating with Roman (now called EU) imperial force.
Over the centuries, the successors of JC have generally followed the Jews into corruption and greed, and the Anglicans are an especially atrocious example. St Paul's intimate association with power goes back 500 years: check out the origin of the phrase robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Every now and then a reform movement arises, trying to take the church back to JC's purpose, but most of the reform movements fall back into Jewish behavior after a generation or so. For example, the Pentecostal movement started as a highly emotional direct God-contact for poor oppressed people, and quickly evolved into the Prosperity Doctrine and Tammy Faye.
These resignations of St Paul officials are important and unusual, because they show a desire for reform inside a Jewish-style temple of greed.
Now for the aptronym: "Last night, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Dr Richard Chartres, was forced to take charge of the cathedral’s operations."
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Update: Looks like the dispute has awakened or emboldened the Anglicans. The Archbishop is starting to sound more like a real Christian and less like an aristocrat:
Dr Rowan Williams said that the Church of England had a “proper interest in the ethics of the financial world” and warned that there had been “little visible change in banking practices” following the recession.
He urged David Cameron and George Osborne to drop their opposition to a European-wide tax on financial transactions, which is expected to be formally proposed by France and Germany at the G20 summit of world leaders starting tomorrow.
“The demands of the protesters have been vague. Many people are frustrated beyond measure at what they see as the disastrous effects of global capitalism; but it isn’t easy to say what we should do differently. It is time we tried to be more specific,” Dr Williams said.
Exactly right. Real Christian advice. Also real Islamic advice and plain old human advice!
Labels: Aptronym Alert, Ethics
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