In Desperation,
I’ve Sometimes Resorted To Shock Tactics
Yes, I think of one instance around two and a half years ago, just
before Christmas, When I attracted press publicity through stating
that - unlike the rest of my clergy comrades - I would be having a
Veggie Roast for our Christmas dinner. Yes, when most of them would be
celebrating Jesus birthday by eating in to a battery raised bird! I
then elaborated on how this would be at the expense of the creature
having been - prior to its slaughter: incarcerated for its life! Yes,
and no doubt to avoid any twinge of conscience being felt in the mind
of the cleric, a prayer of blessing would probably have been offered
before tucking in to such a carcase..
Is it any wonder that
quite a few clergy appeared to avoid or refrain from acknowledging me
afterwards? Obviously, I have been looked upon since as ‘going well
over the top’ and not a little eccentric. But then this hardly bothers
me. Decades previous, - having been told that I was well liked in
‘high circles’ and should avoid such emotional outbursts – one had
been told: “Play your cards right James and you’ll end up with a
mitre!” “You have plenty of time to oppose animal cruelty when you
eventually retire!” Yes, such were the kind of words uttered by other
folk who undoubtedly meant well! However, with difficulty and with
prayer, I shut my ears to such well-intentioned advice from such
well-meant friends. I realised – as had David in the Old Testament -
“that there is but a step day between ones self and death”.
Yes, and its far more important to live in the realisation that
‘tomorrow never comes’ – only the day after! - and to be loyal to a
great, holy, and majestic God whose throne one must approach perhaps
sooner than one may expect! Yes, who knows? Indeed, how awful to put
things off until a future occasion that which ones conscience states
should be addressed in the present! “To know to do good and yet do it
not; that is evil!” May the Good Lord save us all from cowardice,
which turns us in to spiritual jellyfish: void of any backbone!
Yes, and as for the latter, we find that present day educational
systems - along with insipid political parties - are responsible for
curtailing both the freedom of the individual to express his or
herself and to openly criticize! Indeed, just consider these days
how letters sent for publication to the average newspaper, are
constantly being scrutinised, edited or rejected for publication. The
fact being that editors are terrified of being sued by militant
pressure groups hell bent on stopping freedom of expression and
freedom of speech.
Indeed, as it was so in America over twenty
years ago, so it is in Britain today! Folk are now constantly looking
on how to sue another, as money has become their god. Yet the masses
are so short sighted that they fail to realise that shrouds are
without pockets! Clinging on to this crooked world’s fleeting values,
they are spiritually bankrupt for facing eternity where one will
surely sow what one has not already reaped!
For myself, I’m
openly proud and thankful to be a racist. This is not to say that I do
not appreciate and respect so very much in other cultures. Indeed, on
a less global outlook I’m glad to be English, though I prefer the
Celtic temperament and had the best of years in bonny Scotland!
Consequently, I very much appreciate much of what UKIP stands for;
and most specially its insistence that we ‘as a nation’ be given the
right to vote concerning relations with the EU. Indeed, I’m old
enough to have witnessed one of two world wars where so very many
literally sacrificed their lives so that the UK would be free from any
future dictatorial European power enslaving us. But then I don’t
support UKIP on either hunting or on nuclear!
Similarly
contentious! - Though some of my past colleagues have expressed
homosexual leanings - I have truly loved them in a spiritual sense;
while at the same time disapproving of their biological practices
which I consistently consider pernicious, dangerous and not a little
disgusting. So – on the strength of this – please do not ban me in
expressing such views, as ‘homophobic!. The simple fact is that the
latter term is as inaccurate and distorted a term of our English
language as has become that delightful term ‘gay’! Yes, both such
words having been grossly distorted in recent years by the same -
dare I say it? - unsavoury pressure group.
Indeed, a phobia is
‘an irrational fear’ of some thing or person, and I can assure you –
that along with the vast majority of Christian worshippers, their New
Testament teaching, and most of the teaching of other major World
Faiths as well – I have no irrational fear or dread of homosexuals.
Nevertheless, there is a valid fear amongst many for the safety of
vulnerable and easily led adolescents being taken advantage of by
them: some of whose sphincter muscles have resulted in leakage and a
whole host of other ‘off putting problems’ -. Yes, and not forgetting
AIDS itself!
Nevertheless, I fully respect many of their most genteel qualities.
Finally, as for my preferences concerning the differing species of
the world, I truly find the present human species to be exceedingly
low. Indeed, at the very bottom of the barrel! Consequently, one can
wholeheartedly agree with a past and more enlightened Bishop Of
Manchester, who said – as recorded in Hansard many years ago -
“Gentlemen, If animals believe in a Devil, one thing is
indisputable: he will be in the form and guise of a human.”
Is
it any wonder then that so many distraught human beings go directly
off their own kind and show constant dedication and love to members of
the animal kingdom?
The fact is that the fidelity of many a beast puts human loyalty
in to insignificance. Yes, the first couple were, according to
Genesis, made in the image and likeness of God. But they soon rebelled
‘falling from grace’; and contaminating the rest of the creation in
the process. Consequently, rather than reflect the image of God, man
today is much more often very much reflecting the image of Beelzebub
whom Jesus referred to as prince and ruler of all demons!
Go on to It's not revenge these
poor animals seek, its compassion
Return to Summer 2014 Table of Contents
Return to
Newsletters
Animal Padre's
