Comments on: Farewell to all that

By: Gregory Kong

Gregory Kong — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:53:50 +0000

Hmph. As an Anglican myself, I certainly hope Her Majesty the Queen slaps him upside down. He is a fool. And I say that in direct reference to calling my ‘brother’ Raca. Because I am not so sure he even is my brother.

I am in Malaysia, where Shariah law *over Muslims* takes precedence over civil, secular law. Which means, if two thieves get caught, and one is a Muslim, he might get his hands chopped off while the other thief gets a couple months jail time.

Which might not be so bad, of course, (well who asked you to be a Muslim, after all?) but the problem is that the Shariah court gets to decide the meta-question of whether a person is Muslim or not (guess what – once you were, you always are). Which is pretty stupid. To say the very least of what I want to say. Words fail me. I am damming up a whole torrent of vile verbal diarrhoea here. They use this Shariah system to steal assets too, which is definitely beyond the pale.

For the Archbishop, with the full responsibility of his leadership role, to say such an asinine thing… Well. I think his getting sacked would be the LEAST adverse reaction from this mess. Even better, someone should invite him to live in a real Shariah-governed society and rub his face in the dung real nice.

A moron and a bloody fool. Of the First Order. May the Lord have mercy on us all.

By: badbob

badbob — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:15:36 +0000

Here we go again in here. Disparage the CoE or Anglican/Episcopals and it’s idiot leader (truly an Ass we all agree) and we start the Catholic bashing. This is the same man that let the Cathedral in London (formerly Catholic- before Henry) to film that very un-Christian film. His pronouncement on Sharia is just more of the same “off the planet thinking” that has come to symbolize he and his flock- though not all. Certainly not Lex.

Snake- I find it hard to believe you went to Catholic school ‘kindergarten’ in the early 50’s…just saying. But I reckon dem Catlicks taught you to read., eh? That comes in hand as a lawyer, don’t it? I went in the late 50’s/60’s and we used to lovingly call those lucky Protestant suckers in our ‘hood “pagans”, with envy, because they didn’t have to go to Catechism on Sat morning. Beyond that..we were all American kids, even though in my neighborhood we outnumbered them 10-1.

Now I’ll tell you, on the other hand, when I went south the first time in the military I run into some o’dem evangelical types who are sorta inflexible and think the earth is 6000 years old (not that there’s anything wrong with that)..I even had to bust a few noses, when, without thinking, they said some derogatory things that offended me Cat-lick sensabilities….I hate rude behavior in a mil officer.

My position- simply stated.

By: hajo-hi

hajo-hi — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:10:32 +0000

Now I am puzzled. If there is no spelling error in “hic abtera”, then what Latin root/flexion is “abtera”? The nearest roots I can find is “Abdera” (city-name) or “abstentus” res. “abstineo”. Is it some form of medieval/church Latin?

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:50:49 +0000

Oops..and no spelling errors in my earlier…you’re close to the idiom, Hajo-hi.

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:46:50 +0000

Cottus & Hajo-hi – hehe, really not trying to be difficult here, but “googling” lingua latina (and much else besides) really limits our reach. I was trying to point out earlier that employing grade school/childhood lessons as motives of credibility leaves us exposed.

By: Advokaat

Advokaat — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:12:51 +0000

No worries, people.

When the Sharia enforcers come for the Archbishop’s wife for to cane her for having tea and crumpets with a man not her husband, he’ll realize the error of his ways.

But, of course, by then it will be too late, won’t it?