tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post61934628730919568..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: A majority of Anglicans will vote for right-wing parties in May – so why is its leadership peddling Marxist drivel?Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-31225499541607405042015-01-17T16:53:57.258+00:002015-01-17T16:53:57.258+00:00I suspect that if I visited churches other than ou...I suspect that if I visited churches other than our own, I'd have to fight the urge not to walk out regularly during party political sermons. The closest I ever came at ours was when a visiting preacher poured scorn on the critics of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who had recently idiotically decalred that some form of shariah law in Britain was "inevitable". Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-57819596087794165442015-01-17T16:41:22.965+00:002015-01-17T16:41:22.965+00:00Thanks, Colin. I have a chest infection and have s...Thanks, Colin. I have a chest infection and have spent the last few days coughing my lungs out, which I suspect tends to sharpen up my critical faculties: I'll go back to being gentle and reasonable after it has cleared up.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-76209903611246750552015-01-17T16:38:12.564+00:002015-01-17T16:38:12.564+00:00The believing bit is fine, believe me: the Church&...The believing bit is fine, believe me: the Church's inistence on meddling in political areas which have nothing to do with religion isn't. Fortunately, our thriving local Anglo Catholic church - while not exactly free of politics - is careful when it comes to playing party politics, and, while left-liberals are undoubtedly in the majority (it is, after all, full or rich urbanites), there are enough right-wingers in there to keep them honest (though I suspect UKIP is a bit thin on the ground - but, then, that's porbably true of Chiswick as a whole). The other good thing is that the charities we fund are carefully scrutinised and aren't (as far as I can tell) overtly political - the money is spent on very specifics items. When the vicar decided it was time to raise money for a new organ and some rebuilding work (over £1m in total), various lefties in the congregation argued that the money (which, of course, hadn't been collected at that stage) should be "given to the poor". They were ignored. Excellent!Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-9760791945705459832015-01-17T14:12:49.316+00:002015-01-17T14:12:49.316+00:00The last time I was in Church for Remembrance Sund...The last time I was in Church for Remembrance Sunday, our sandal wearing pony tailed vicar (I kid you not) used the occasion to suggest that under no circumstances should we vote for 'those parties which seek to divide'. I wonder who he was referring to?Luke C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06081044081546576244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-799171706940557702015-01-16T23:38:49.878+00:002015-01-16T23:38:49.878+00:00You are on terrific form Scott.
Kirkcaldy, wher...You are on terrific form Scott. <br /><br /> Kirkcaldy, where an infant Adam Smith was kidnapped by gypsies and rescued by his uncle, gave us Gordon Brown and this entrepreneurial, part - Subcontinental beauty ( http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/janice-manzur-eldest-daughter-too-4985223 ) .<br /><br /> I have just learned that the Muslim name. Manzur, means 'accepted' or ' approved' and, indeed, the British Welfare State could not agree more.Colin G Finlaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-70976352640582995212015-01-16T22:06:51.398+00:002015-01-16T22:06:51.398+00:00I used to brave our village church at most twice a...I used to brave our village church at most twice a year - once for the harvest festival (a good old pagan celebration) and once for the carol service. If the religion didn't put me off, the piles of pamphlets exhorting me to dip into my pockets to support Palestinians and Kalashnikov toting African 'freedom fighters' certainly would.<br /> <br />These days I just 'do' the carol service, having been informed that the proceeds of the last HF I attended went to Africa. This, despite a neighbouring village having quite serious examples of rural poverty.<br /><br />I'm very glad I'm not a believer. I would find it all very depressing if I were.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />GCoopernoreply@blogger.com