...for that coveted 'trendy vicar' accolade:
A prominent bishop has provoked a storm of outrage by likening Prince William and Kate Middleton to ‘shallow celebrities’ and predicting their marriage will last just seven years.
On his Facebook page, Church of England Bishop Pete Broadbent describes the Royal Family as ‘philanderers’ with a record of marriage break-ups who ‘cost an arm and a leg’.
He also denounces the ‘nauseating tosh’ surrounding the ‘national flimflam’ of the wedding and says the basis of the Monarchy is ‘corrupt and sexist’.
That's the way to bring people back to the Church of England, Peter...
When approached at his home by The Mail on Sunday yesterday, Bishop Broadbent said: ‘I’m not speaking to you. I really am not speaking to you. If you want to run a gutter story, run a gutter story. Bye.’
Yeah, it's a bit late for a dignified silence
now, isn't it?
The problem is that the Bishop is right about the Royal parasites and their dysfunctional family. HIS problem is that the Queen, head of that shambolic crowd, is also the head of his Church and thus his boss...
ReplyDeleteSeven years! How the heel does this veritable Nostradamus know?
ReplyDeleteOh, and "corrupt and sexist" - coming from the CofE - Pot/Kettle alert!
Sexist, this royalty business, is it?
ReplyDeleteI suppose there is no hope of there ever being a female monarch in this country then...
God, what a cretin!
No problem. His ordination is between him and God and can't be revoked, whereas his licence as a CoE preacher can.
ReplyDeleteIf he doesn't like what his firm stands for, he can do what anybody else does and resign. He can go and be a hedge-preacher to see if people will throw pennies. There is at least one other independent bishop, Jonathan Blake.
http://www.bishopjonathanblake.com/about-jonathan-blake.htm
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Tangential:
The bio notes for Blake have been updated as he was involved in a case of the police barging in to his house on what appear to have been mistaken and malicious child neglect allegations.
In fact, his children do rock-climging and were part of a carefully-staged stunt photo on the roof for Reading Week. Never at any time were they in any danger, as Mrs Blake tried to explain. Instead of them checking what had happened, the police threw Blake down the stairs and failed to operate the custody suit properly.
That same year (2009)he established the campaigning organisation www.whennooneswatching.org to work to increase police accountability by implementing greater CCTV monitoring of their work in the hope of eradicting police malpractice.
In 2010 he took out a private prosecution against a police officer for assault. He represented himself in Magistrates and Crown Court and won the right to proceed with the case, convincing the Crown Prosecution Service that it had merit. However, believing that the proceedings had proved instructive to the officer concerned and sufficent to amend his future conduct, Jonathan offered to halt them if the officer made no application for costs. This was agreed.
Background
I suspect his spiritual home is closer to the gathered churches than the established?
ReplyDeleteAnd following on from WOAR on the tangential, a bit ore Facebook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIgdnlOSlps
The Bish may be right but as one who was always dead set againt the monarchy until I was forced to seriously contemplate what life might be link under President Blair I can no longer work up enough enthusiasm for republicanism to be outraged at the likely idiocy and obscene expense of a royal wedding.
ReplyDeleteTbh, I think the Bishop is spot on :-D
ReplyDeleteMany primates are capable of very insulting hand signing and I would just move the children along to the next cage, Julia.
ReplyDeleteThat women bishops will soon be flimflamming this tosh could be a holy blessing in disguise.
Seems a case of the bishop doth protest too much.
ReplyDeleteI know I am old-fashioned, etc, but a Bishop called Pete?
ReplyDeleteSounds a bit dodgy to me, guv'nor, know what I mean?
"The problem is that the Bishop is right about the Royal parasites and their dysfunctional family."
ReplyDeleteMaybe, but as Ian R Thorpe points out, consider the horrible alternative...
"The bio notes for Blake have been updated as he was involved in a case of the police barging in to his house on what appear to have been mistaken and malicious child neglect allegations. "
Ah, yes, I remember that one!
"I know I am old-fashioned, etc, but a Bishop called Pete?"
Kind of expect him to whip out a guitar at the earliest opportunity...