Yes, you've read it correctly. Indeed, a leper cannot change its
spots; and what one has conditioned ones self to be over the years, with
a mitre in view, will hardly leave you when you get to the top wrung of
the ladder. Yes, and find in old age or failing health, that it's
leaning on the wrong wall! As one leading cleric once said to me: "What
good is such a title when I've been given merely weeks to live?"
Those who manifest a disgusting degree of diplomacy are not following
in the steps of the Prophets, 'the Christ', or His Apostles, but "have
already had their reward!. Be ye notlike unto them’
Don Gwillim - Founder of VEG.4 LENT - contacted every bishop of the
Church In Wales (Anglican); every bishop of Ireland (both Catholic and
Anglican); every bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Anglican); i.e:
60 prelates in all. He asked them if they would prayerfully consider
commending others to give up meat for Lent.2004. Indeed, he included
helpful literature and touched on the example of many in the early
church; what is more, how it would help starving humanity in the third
world.
Believe it or not, Don received a reply from 4 of them (2 Catholic
and 2 Anglican) - most of whom, if not all, have a private secretary at
hand. I don't wish to be too harsh with these prelates, - and I'm not
the best at replying to a backlog of correspondence myself! - but I ask:
'what kind of an example are they? What moral stand do they take?'
Several Church Of England bishops who quite frowned upon me in the early
eighties, when I was divorced against my will, have proven to be
homosexual! Cohabitation, which they once denounced as diabolic they now
accept as normal. Contraception, once a grievous mortal sin to one type
is condoned. I tell you: they adapt to conform to this age rather than
adamantly stand out against the rot that is engulfing us. But at least
of one thing we can be grateful: once the masses become vegetarian then
they will do likewise. Indeed, of the 4 who replied - and their replies
were quite long and courteous - not one of them was prepared to sample
vegetarianism. Nor would they commend it as a form of self-denial for
this Lent season which has just finished.
Animal Padre's
