Good Old C of E

The Shunned Reverend, the Canon and the Bishop. Now that’s an intriguing title

As an unassuming Kiwi Atheist Blogger, sometimes stories like this come along that are literally mana from heaven.

Make my unpaid mission all seem worthwhile.

I can’t type fast enough on this one.

In short: it’s ‘who’s up who and who’s not paying?’ amongst the hierarchy of Wellingtons Anglican Church.     

Last month Bishop Tom Brown, a sprightly 69, gave up his right to officiate and at the same time announced he was breaking-up from his wife.

Around the same time the Reverend Canon Kate Carey-Smith (now that’s a mouthful) informed her employees at Samuel Marsden College she was resigning because of ‘personal reasons’.

Kate’s hubby was/is none other than Reverend Chris Carey Smith, the chaplin at St Marks Church School. 

It appears most people in the Anglican congregation in Wellington knew exactly what those ‘personal reasons’ were.

Today’s media have merely confirmed the obvious.

Tom and Kate have been getting it on.  

They have dumped their spouses, gone to ground and are now shacked-up.  

There’s something heart-warming, almost harmless about the modern-day Church of England. 

Come share The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Delusion

David Berg (aka Moses David),Guru of the Children of God

Pat Robinson, T.V Evangelist

Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, leader of the Church Universal & Triumphant

Jehovah's Witnesses

Lee Jang Rim, leader of the Korean cult Mission for the Coming Days

Maria Devi Khrystos, leader of the Russian cult Great White Brotherhood

David Koresh, Branch Davidian

Heavens Gate Cult

John Wesley, Methodist Church founder

This eclectic bunch, shared one common belief.

So what is it, that links David Koresh to Joseph Smith?

It’s a delusional belief in a cataclysmic ‘end of times’ apocalypse.

And you can now add another name to this illustrious list……

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

For centuries the Catholic Church have been wheeling-out ‘more dead than alive’ dementia ridden, pontiffs - by the pope-mobile load.

It looks as if The Church of England is now challenging this dubious distinction, with it’s current head-honcho showing all the signs of early Alzheimer’s.

Here are some excerpts from yesterday’s rambling Christmas ‘dooms-day’ sermon from Rowan Williams………

“On the other side, after the end of the Cold War, some scholars were writing about the 'end of history', and an American President spoke of a 'new world order'.

“we've seen some of Barack Obama's advisers and colleagues warning about the level of messianic expectation loaded on to the President-elect”

“The gospel tells us something hard to hear - that there is not going to be a single charismatic leader or a dedicated political campaign or a war to end all wars that will bring the golden age; it tells us that history will end when God decides”

“It is not the restoring of a golden age, not even a return to the Garden of Eden; it is more – a new creation, a new horizon for us all”

“He is the indestructible divine life, and the illumination he gives cannot be shrouded or defeated by the darkness of human failure”

“Isaiah looked towards the day when the guards on the deserted city's wall would see the return of the Lord 'face to face”

God will decide History’s End!

A new horizon!

What the f*ck!

I can imagine Jim Jones giving a similar ‘peep-talk’ to the followers, just before he broke-out the kool-aid.

Speciousness of this kind would be hard to beat, even if The Archbishop had replaced God with ‘aliens from the extended spiral arm in the fourth quadrant’.

At least we know there IS an extended arm in the fourth quadrant, and chances are there are aliens.

Why didn’t he simply don a chicken-suit & jump around the stage screaming “the sky is falling” whilst making loud clucking noises?

Then at least we’d all think he was taking the piss.

The sad thing for the 75 million Anglicans was - he was serious, even managing to trump The Pope’s ‘ecology of man’(gay bashing)speech two days ago, a mission in itself.

Anglican Church funds Maori Party Election Campaign!

Let’s say you were one of Saturday Night’s lucky Lotto ‘Power Ball’ winners & waking-up a multi-millionaire, you decided to share your good fortune with the less well-off in society by donating a small portion of your winnings away to a noble cause. Say $10,000.

Who would your be recipient(s)? Cancer Research may be? The City Mission is always a standard? You can’t go too wrong with The Salvation Army? Let's not forget about the neglected animals, and toss the S.P.C.A some of the loot.

But what say we give it all to The Maori Party?

“The bloody Maori Party!” I hear you squeal, they’re a political party - why do they deserve a sizeable charitable donation?

The only people who can fully answer this question are The Bishops of The Anglican Church of New Zealand, who were exposed by recent declaration changes to The Electoral System, as one of The Maori Party's largest single backers.

In black & white & so you can get your head around this: Electoral Commission records show The Anglican Church of New Zealand donated $10,000 to The New Zealand Maori Parties 2005 Election Campaign.

Thanks to Jonathan Milne at The New Zealand Herald newspaper, this back-room funding has been revealed, so now both the public and bemused & no doubt angry Anglican church-goers, can judge this 'donation' in the true light of day.

The charade that mainstream churches in New Zealand are apolitical has been blown wide open.

Here we have a church with the audacity to front a campaign to prise-away Kiwi’s hard earned taxes using guilt-tactics, showing us all 'in full colour' where their own charitable sympathies sit – politics not welfare!

The Anglican Churches politically-correct view on what it believes philanthropy is in New Zealand, has been exposed to the publics justified scorn & derision.

Caught with their pants-down at their ankles and robes wide open, The Church of England (New Zealand Inc)pretences of neutrality are now in tatters.

Trillion Dollar Anglican Church get’s a begging bowl out!

Recent market downturns mean The Church of England is down to it’s last 50 Trillion.

There are two words, mentioned together, in sequence, that are enough to get my goat-up & the blood really pumping through my 90 kilogram frame.

The first is ‘church’ and the second is ‘tax’.

Were I was a Police Dog, these words would form my attack command(sorry if reincarnation is true, I already have myself signed-up as a domestic cat, not a working dog)

If it wasn’t bad enough for hard-working Kiwi’s subsidising a plethora of multi-national superstition factories, the countries largest religious denomination is now asking tax-payers to give them their recent, well deserved tax-cut!

This piece of audacious pan-handling dubbed ‘Give It Up’, comes from Reverend Dr Anthony Dancer of the Anglican Church who calls for N.Z house-holds to give-up their $10-$28 per week tax-cuts to a good cause & he’s thrown-up a web site to make us all feel guilty at spending our own money on frivolous things like shoes for the kids, the mortgage, a few nights away on holiday, or dare I suggest it a bottle of wine (unblessed variety naturally)

Hoisting his Socialist flag firmly to the top of the mast, Dr Dancer is targeting “those who might therefore consider undertaking some wealth redistribution of their own”.

Dancer wants us to start sobbing-into our pillows, have sleepless guilt-ridden nights with his words “With discretion comes responsibility” haunting us into the wee hours.

Dr Dancer has clearly lived a cloistered clergical existence for too long, cocooned from the rest of society, seemingly oblivious that a great many Kiwi’s work damn hard and deserve a few more bucks in their pockets & not those of his choice.

Dr Dancer, a key figure in that well known & home-grown Kiwi charity ‘Stop Cluster Bombs’, is so wrapped-up in his own self-importance, high in his ivory tower (his workplace St Pauls Cathedral, has a very large one, as you'll see pictured above) that he’s conveniently blanked-out that trifling issue of tax-avoidance The Anglican Church, have going with The New Zealand Government.

Having bloated himself at ‘the secular trough’ for so long, Reverend Dancer has failed to grasp the irony of an organisation like his, who don’t pay a cent in tax, having the cheek to tell others who do pay their share, what to do with what in effect, is their own money - not his!

Dr Dancer doesn’t want New Zealanders asking - why doesn’t The Anglican Church with 17 Billion N.Z Dollars in U.K Investments alone (not including trillions in property spread over 120,000 acres) choose to ‘give up’ at least a small portion of their vast wealth , rather than come begging to Joe Blogs Kiwi on an average wage of $35,000 to flog their pittance?

Dr Dancer, author of the gripping title ‘William Stringfellow In Anglo-American Perspective’, wants you & me to conveniently forget, that outside the New Zealand Government, Maori Entities, the next largest land-owners (based on property valuations) in the country is The Anglican Church, and to date Dancers bosses have been unwilling to ‘give up’ even a single cent of their billion dollar plus property portfolio, to the charities he outlines on his begging site.

It’s time Doctor Reverend Anthony Dancer got a real job, and stopped bothering those that do.

And for the record Reverend Dancer my preferred charities of choice remain: New Zealand Breweries & New Zealand Totalisator Agency Board.