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Summer 2013
Is The New Archbishop Of Canterbury ‘A Wet Lettuce?’
- One expects to see in the top primate of ‘the world wide Anglican
Communion of churches’ one who is firm and strong in convictions, but
this is not to be found in Justin Welby! First of all – in the
brief time that he’s been in office – he has changed his mind to
please a majority supportive of same sex ‘marriage’. Yes, and
since then - so as to appease ‘blood lust ‘sports’ enthusiasts – he
has turned down a request to be vice president of the RSPCA!
- Yes indeed, the ground rock of family life in which to bring up
children is to be so compromised that, in a society where children
hardly know who their father is, they are going to be given two: one
of which may choose to be called mother. And this is not a joke
because new laws are to be brought in to practice by which men can be
called women and women called men. Indeed, if it were not so trtagic
and destructive of stable family life then it would be, unbelievably
humorous.
And of course, the above is not the end because just
given a little more time and polygamy amongst all types of sexual
orientations will no doubt be the following step. Indeed, none
is more broadminded than myself (and I really am!) but seeing the way
that family life will further disintegrate, makes it all extremely
upsetting; and most especially for the ‘up and coming’ generation of
computer orientated children. Indeed, they have already – with few
exceptions – become largely moulded along automaton lines: oblivious
of little more reality than an IPod as their ever present god!
Our new archbishop of Canterbury – by his compromises and
complacencies – is not only indirectly condoning the disintegration of
Christian family life as it has been handed down for centuries but he
is also – via his recent snub towards the RSPCA – indirectly
commending the desensitisation of the soul through refusing to ally
himself with a progressive RSPCA which openly opposes blood ‘sports’.
Consequently, if this first of archbishops to turn down the
offer of vice president of the RSPCA is not another ‘wet lettuce’ then
I fail to know the meaning of such a term. All I would add is that he
and this present Prime Minister would make ‘jolly good bed mates’.
They appear to have so much in common! Last Sunday my text for
a sermon was: ‘There were giants in the land in those days’ (Genesis
6:4). I touched on John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Wilberforce,
William Booth, Gladys Ayleward, and many others. But one thing
is sure: there are none in the land today. However, there are vast
assortments of ‘wet lettuces’ whose ‘sell by dates’ are well and truly
past; and due to their odour they need putting in to the garbage bin.
St John knew about them in his day. In his book of The Apocalypse he
was inspired to write that because they were neither hot nor cold,
alive or dead, but lukewarm, God would spew them out of his mouth:
(See Revelation chp 3: verse 16)
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