Are we going to sit back and allow them to be erected
within ‘so called’ animal loving Britain? Well, God Forbid! If we have
as much as an ounce of compassion and pity left, then we must oppose
this satanic innovation to the last. How can respectable folk sit back
and allow such evils to creep in and spread like a putrid moral cancer?
Only the utterly spineless – or sadly retarded – could turn a blind eye
– Nelson style – to the telescope! Yes, or like an ostrich, bury their
head within the sand! Indeed, how dare bishops carry a crook as symbol
of their supposed pastoral calling, yet ignore the increasing abuse of
gentle, herbivorous animals who look to such for help! Talk about the
hypocrisy of the Victorians? Why! Their morals were far less
hypocritical than Christendom’s today!
While secular newspapers, such as the well-balanced
Daily Mail, are exposing both cloned cows and battery cows, evangelical
Christians as a whole just couldn’t care a toss. Their concern seems
confined to securing in heaven a place for themselves – to use a
Lancashire expression from Doreen – after they have ‘popped their
clogs’! Indeed, for greedy, gluttonous mercenary minded farmers to erect
animal battery establishments, is for them to stand in direct opposition
to anyone with even an iota of compassion left in their veins. And any
local council who gives such mercenary minded, soulless characters, ‘the
go ahead’ needs to be jeered at and justly heckled.
You look around today and wonder why there are so
many animal Belsens grotesquely standing in ‘off track’ rural
surroundings, and I’ll tell you why. It’s because ‘so called’ decent
folk said and did nothing. I think of one ‘Treblinka’ that stands in
close proximity to a picturesque village church where I once officiated
– they never asked me back! At the close of worship, as the folk were
leaving and I was there to shake their hands; one bemused local came up
to me in looks of sheer amazement: “This is the first time in all my
life that I’ve heard prayers extended ‘for animals!’ in a church
service.” Well, how terribly sad! One ‘devout’ nun taught her class that
you must never say ‘God bless you’ to an animal. You can say ‘Good Luck
instead!’ She then qualified her remark to the class by saying: ‘You
see, unlike ourselves, animals do not have a soul!’
Such was the nun’s indoctrination and, before one criticizes her, let
me say that in a letter addressed to myself, the former cardinal
archbishop of Westminster states: ‘Catholic theology affirms that an
animal has no soul and when it dies it ceases to exist’. And sadly such
an influential branch of Christianity has emphasised the consistency of
its teaching down the centuries – its semper eadem – ‘always the same!’
Ah, but we know different, and even the present Pope has given one or
two slight hints that one might meet a bereft animal in a future state
to come! Yes indeed, “many that are first shall be last; and the last
first!” Such are the words of The Master.
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