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William Crawley | 19:42 UK time, Tuesday, 8 September 2009

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  • 1. At 7:51pm on 08 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    Yeh, William. Tanks are fierce on petrol, seemingly. Not a very green example from the Bish.

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  • 2. At 7:51pm on 08 Sep 2009, logica_sine_vanitate wrote:

    Isn't self-defence and maintaining a deterrent a form of peacemaking?

    Sorry, William, I couldn't help myself... ;-)

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  • 3. At 8:10pm on 08 Sep 2009, petermorrow wrote:


    It's all very well saying sorry, William, but you are on the outside of the tank, and the Archbishop is inside!

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  • 4. At 8:41pm on 08 Sep 2009, Caspar-Canute wrote:

    At least he checks his smoke alarm.

    Thumbs up!

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  • 5. At 8:44pm on 08 Sep 2009, John Wright wrote:


    That's all we need: bishops in tanks.


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  • 6. At 8:53pm on 08 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    Unlike the Bishop, The Pope doesnt need a tank to terrify me.

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  • 7. At 9:09pm on 08 Sep 2009, brianmcclinton wrote:

    How many divisions has the Archbishop?

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  • 8. At 9:17pm on 08 Sep 2009, petermorrow wrote:


    Brian

    Have to hand it to you, that's the best response so far.

    :-)

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  • 9. At 9:37pm on 08 Sep 2009, Parrhasios wrote:



    W&T's "Person of the Year - 2008" - if I recollect aright.

    I have not seen many more sickening, more fundamentally wrong pictures than this.




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  • 10. At 11:18pm on 08 Sep 2009, Heliopolitan wrote:

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

  • 11. At 00:13am on 09 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    Parrhasios post # 9

    I saw a better one. It was a few years ago on Songs of Praise. They were filming it from Faslane.

    They actually showed the local congregation singing a good old traditional hymn while cutting intermittently to footage of a nuclear missile being launched from a submarine.

    I was actually waiting for them to show the bomb exploding over a city while the congregation would burst into, "Shine Jesus shine."

    It was nauseatingly bad. But hey, loads of other groups have hijacked Christianity, why not the BBC?

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  • 12. At 01:06am on 09 Sep 2009, Dennis Junior wrote:

    Mr. Crawley,

    You are forgiven....For the blessed Peacemakers picture.

    =Dennis Junior=

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  • 13. At 08:08am on 09 Sep 2009, princessnewsjunkie wrote:

    I wonder what a sequestered Archbishop would be like in a different universe.


    Maybe something like this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YnkzRHYMA

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  • 14. At 08:54am on 09 Sep 2009, Parrhasios wrote:


    I note he's wearing his new funky pectoral cross - not the sort of cross that would scare anyone. If I were going to be crucified I think I would choose one just like it: I can see myself hanging there singing "Always look on the bright side of death".

    I wonder if there's a chatroom somewhere for senior clerics with an unwholesome interest in liturgical vestments. I imagine Sentamu and Ratzinger would be there all the time comparing notes.

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  • 15. At 09:08am on 09 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    The relationship between the military and the church has always been highly suspect. Apologists for the present state of affairs have trotted out the same old argument that soldiers and their families have the same right as anyone else to be ministered to.

    In my own church, the military are the only organisation who enjoy the status, protected by Canon Law, whereby a priest can inform his Bishop that he is joining up as a military chaplain and the Bishop cannot do anything about it.

    The Bishop who is presently chief chaplain to the forces in England has recently complained bitterly and very publicly about how poor equipment has been a major factor in the amount of young British men we have seen being brought home in body bags.

    He has never once questioned the legality of the war in Iraq, nor has he made any comment on the estimated 1.2 million Iraqi deaths, most of whom were innocent civilians.

    Had he done so, well, he wouldnt be the chaplain in chief to the military any longer, would he?

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  • 16. At 11:08am on 09 Sep 2009, mccamley wrote:

    Those aren't liturgical vestments - they're anglican abito piano or street clothing.

    and since anglican orders aren't really valid and their liturgy isn't real then what they wear couldn't really be judged "liturgical vestments" so the Pope would have no desire to chat about it.

    Did you ever hear of the liberation theology introduction to the preface of the Mass? "It is right to give Him tanks and planes".

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  • 17. At 11:09am on 09 Sep 2009, mccamley wrote:

    What's with this new member moderation stuff? when did I become a new member?

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  • 18. At 1:54pm on 09 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    Mcc post 16

    You know some words of the Mass in English? Eheu!!

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  • 19. At 2:14pm on 09 Sep 2009, gveale wrote:

    McCamley
    You mean you're a new member too? We're all new members. Don't worry, it only takes half an hour for your posts to appear. You don't lose the thread of the discussion at all.

    GV

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  • 20. At 6:03pm on 09 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    Peter M
    are you testing all the threads to see how long your posts are in premoderation? If so, why?

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  • 21. At 6:36pm on 09 Sep 2009, romejellybean wrote:

    PeterM

    Lol! I just knew you were. Lol!

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  • 22. At 6:36pm on 09 Sep 2009, petermorrow wrote:


    RJB

    No, I'm not timing the moderation process; however on the "John Rawls on Religion" thread, William wrote, "I've a solution to your pre-moderation woes. While you are waiting for your comment to pass moderation, why not go read another post and comment on that one too. Then, by the time you've joined that debate ... well, it might work." (it was post #43) so I just thought I'd act on what he said.

    However, I'm also of the opinion that there is an unknown, yet still unexplained, reason for this new moderation policy and suspect it might end up being a temporary process based on certain factors. Of course I could be wrong, way wrong, but until someone who does know explains the actual reason for the change we can only speculate, or wait until things change back, as I think they will.

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  • 23. At 7:14pm on 09 Sep 2009, Parrhasios wrote:


    Peter

    Let's face it - we all know why we are on pre-moderation.

    Why did Malachi O'Docherty take down the Whitewell threads which I seem to recollect garnered him the greatest number of hits of any topic on his blog?

    The Beeb are, to borrow Mrs Thatcher's eloquent term, frit and justifiably so!

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  • 24. At 10:54pm on 09 Sep 2009, MarcusAureliusII wrote:

    Yo Jesus!

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  • 25. At 11:58pm on 09 Sep 2009, Parrhasios wrote:


    mccamley # 16

    Surely Ratzinger is only an anti-pope who would be quite happy to discuss dresses with a fellow apostate - hasn't Peter's seat been vacant since the death of Gregory XVII?

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  • 26. At 09:13am on 10 Sep 2009, gveale wrote:

    Parrhasios
    Re#23

    You've hit the nail right on the head. Pull a couple of threads off this blog, and life can get back to what we call normal.
    There's a personal accusation on the "Tabernacle Turmoil" thread, about some bloke who wouldn't shake some other bloke's hand at a Church meeting. Unless the pre-moderator was there, and can conform the story, I don't know how on earth that made it through pre-moderation.
    I'm now assuming that they scan for cuss-words, wait half an hour and let the comments through.

    And who on earth is "rainTheInvestigator"? A marvel super-hero or something? Does he really speak for the Spotlight programme?


    GV

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  • 27. At 10:27am on 10 Sep 2009, Bernards_Insight wrote:

    Ah, so the protestants are to blame for our woes!

    I always know'ed it.

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  • 28. At 10:32am on 10 Sep 2009, mccamley wrote:

    parrhasios - you can't have missed Peter II?

    It's funny how these crazy schismatics all end up as bishops - like Buckley in Larne.

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