Smashing stereotypes

Posted on April 20, 2004 by acb

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10 Responses to Smashing stereotypes

  1. Rupert says:
    April 21, 2004 at 9:30 pm

    Non cupable.

    A quick hunt around reveals the Rev has been active elsewhere, complaining about the honours system: “One wonders what the government’s agenda is in all this. The system has worked fine for years, but lately honours have been handed out like sweeties for services to irrelevances, and the whole thing has become very much cheapened”; ranting some more about sodomy, paedophilia and pope/frock religion ; and finally coming out as a “preacher/pastor” – so that ‘Rev’ is possibly not the gilt-edged variety you earn at theological college.

    That last link is a record of a classic ‘discussion’ between the earnestly reasonable and the raving fundy. If you’ve seen one of these before, it contains no surprises…

    The Irreverent R

  2. Louise says:
    April 22, 2004 at 1:00 am

    That’s what Rupert tells you, of course, but I’ve often caught him listening to Ian Paisley’s greatest sermons on the old gramophone and loudly exclaiming ‘Nooo Popery! Nooo Sodomy! Holloway says No!” whilst getting himself into the right mood for composing his epistles to the Grauniad.

    I find it quite a turn on.

  3. el Patron says:
    April 22, 2004 at 7:48 am

    Yes. See this morning’s diary column, where they actually took the trouble to ring the guy up. He’s a rep for a medical equipment company. “And when you plug a sodomite in, or a papist, the machine detects them, and BURNS THEM ALIVE! Let’s try it out on this journalist… No, no. Please. It’s not too much trouble at all.”

  4. Rupert says:
    April 22, 2004 at 5:44 pm

    What’s happened to Matthew Norman? He seems to have been away for a while now… just hols?

    R

  5. qB says:
    April 22, 2004 at 8:44 pm

    bah. i of course immediately googled the man and didn’t come up with anything. i’ve obviously lost my touch.

  6. SW says:
    April 23, 2004 at 9:38 am

    A fine quote from the good reverend, towards the bottom of the “preacher/pastor” link above:

    “I have not read your e-mail, it is very long, and I am too busy. I do not wish to listen to your blasphemy, and, I also know exactly what you are up to.”

    Ah! The certainties of the truly committed.

  7. Dr Christopher Shell says:
    August 25, 2004 at 8:31 pm

    I don’t like the hatred in Revd Hughes’s letter: I don’t like his style. But what is wrong with the substance? In today’s style-obsessed world, we seem to think that if a man shows himself intemperate or angry, this rules the substance of his arguments out of court. How could it? What connection is there?

  8. el Patron says:
    August 26, 2004 at 4:44 pm

    Well, if you take away the hatred and the style, there’s no substance left. If you really think it is broad-minded to argue, as Mr Hughes does, that an adulterer, a fornicator, a paedophile, a liar and a feminist are all as depraved and unfit for priesthood as a Roman Catholic, I can only suppose your doctorate is in theology.

  9. DR CHRISTOPHER SHELL says:
    August 26, 2004 at 6:30 pm

    You’re correct. I didn’t mention broad-mindedness as a virtue – and neither does the New Testament. There’s a fine line between tolerance and laissez-faire?

  10. Cern says:
    September 13, 2004 at 8:22 pm

    well the Rev is actually a moderator of the following messageboard should anyone feel inclined to seek him: http://forums.godofgrace.org/index.php?

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