Anglican Samizdat

The American Nazi Party is delighted with Occupy Wall Street and has released a statement with the enlightening news that Wall Street bankers are all Jews – and those who aren’t are spiritual Jews.

The Communist Party USA announced that it is squarely behind the occupiers. They concentrate on corporate greed – a real shocker – a new level of class-consciousness and putting people before profits – unless it’s people who are making the profit and then they go into an iterative tautological soliloquy, never to emerge from the resulting collectivist sinkhole.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gloated that the end of Capitalism is nigh – along with Western civilisation – and, I admit, looking at the protesters, he has a point.

Meanwhile, those who have not yet reached a new level of class-consciousness and don’t have time to occupy anything because they are busy trying to make a living (which may or may nor include the demon profit), are losing patience with the whole thing.

Translation of the banners:

Corporate greed = profitable company.

1917 = Trotskyite revolutionaries = bullet in the back of the head in a dark alley.

socialist.ca = we hate Harper = we hate Capitalism = we love Islam = we have disconnected our brains.

Marxist.ca = socialist.ca is the moderate version of us.

Worker Communist Party of Iraq = Marxist.ca is the moderate version of us.

Bob Rae = a man desperately seeking votes and one of the first against the wall if any of the above get their way.

Whether it is insipid hyper-tolerance or maniacal political correctness that has led to removing “BC” and “AD” for fearing it will offend:

A BBC textbook about the life of Christ does not include a single reference to the terms BC and AD – because of fears they could offend non-Christians.

The BBC’s GCSE religious studies guide, which focuses exclusively on Christianity, instead uses the ‘religiously neutral’ terms Before Common Era (BCE) and Common Era (CE).

or removing a cross because it supposedly offends:

The mayor of Whiteville, Tenn. said his community is under attack from a national atheist organization that is threatening to sue unless they remove a cross atop the town’s water tower.

One thing is certain: the expunging of that which inspired the best in a civilisation’s morality, culture, art and laws will lead inexorably to the death of that civilisation.

From here:

A DECISION to use politically correct terms – which do not mention Jesus Christ – for dates BC and AD in the new national history curriculum was an act of Christian cleansing, church leaders said yesterday.

BCE (Before Common Era), BP (Before Present) and CE (Common Era) are the new neutral terms to replace the historical terms BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini).

Removing BC and AD from the curriculum was an “intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history”, Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen said yesterday.

“It is absurd because the coming of Christ remains the centre point of dating and because the phrase ‘common era’ is meaningless and misleading,” he said.

It was akin to calling Christmas the festive season, Archbishop Jensen said.

All of which is BS: a civilisation that is determined to expunge any reference to its foundations from public discourse will shrivel and die – deservedly so.

In the UK during the blitz looting was not uncommon:

One of the most shocking crimes committed during wartime was the looting from bombed houses. In the first eight weeks of the London Blitz a total of 390 cases of looting was reported to the police. On 9th November, 1940, the first people tried for looting took place at the Old Bailey. Of these twenty cases, ten involved members of the Auxiliary Fire Service.

The Lord Mayor of London suggested that notices should be posted throughout the city, reminding the population that looting was punishable by hanging or shooting. However, the courts continued to treat this crime leniently. When a gang of army deserters were convicted of looting in Kent the judge handed down sentences ranging from five years’ penal servitude to eight years’ hard labour.

I doubt that any of today’s looters will face eight years’ hard labour (most are unacquainted with labour of any sort), although public opinion is certainly becoming opposed to leniency:

- In common with Conservative MEP Roger Helmer, 33 per cent of the public believe the police should be allowed to shoot the rioters with live ammunition.

- 78 per cent support the use of tear gas.

- 72 per cent support the use of tasers.

- 82 per cent want curfews imposed.

- 90 per cent support the use of water cannon.

- 65 per cent support the use of plastic bullets.

Malcolm Muggeridge spent much of his time predicting the downfall of the West in gems like this:

So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, laboured with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over–a weary, battered old brontosaurus–and became extinct.

Although his prognostications of doom were premature, he was essentially right.

As Western societies increasingly expunge Christianity from public life, so they increasingly foist compulsory aberrant sexuality on their children. It sounds like an application of Rom 1:24-25: God’s ultimate punishment is to give people what they think they want: in this case, unbridled deviant sexuality, ultimately causing them to bring about their own extinction through fruitless copulating with members of their own sex and – and if that is insufficient, rampant abortion.

From here:

Led by the National Council of Churches (NCC), the Religious Left is backing the proposed Ground Zero Islamic Center while denouncing the mosque’s skeptics as “hateful.”

Revealingly, the statement endorsed by 40 religious “leaders” is relatively narrowly comprised of top NCC officials, left-wing Catholics, Muslim groups, and mostly second-tier Jewish groups, plus J Street. Missing are the usual Mainline Protestant clerics, Eastern Orthodox, and prominent liberal Jews typically found on NCC-organized political blasts.  No prominent evangelicals are on the list.

The interfaith enthusiasts for the mosque chimed:

As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious freedom and inter-religious cooperation, we are deeply troubled by the xenophobia and religious bigotry that has characterized some of the opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque near where the World Trade Center towers once stood.

Is this a sign of religious tolerance ushering in a new utopia of mutual understanding and elysian harmony? Or is it yet another example of Christendom doing this to itself:

Because it is has brought the squat toilet to parts of the West hitherto unsullied by its seat-less discomfort.

For centuries, the great British loo has been a matter of envy to the rest of the world.

Thanks to the efforts of pioneers like the legendary Thomas Crapper, we have long since led the world in comfort and hygiene.

Now, however, that could be about to change.

For most of us, the squat toilet is nothing more than a staple of horror stories about old-fashioned French service stations or the exploits of adventurous backpackers in far-flung parts of India.

But this basic form of plumbing, also known as a Turkish toilet or Nile pan, could be coming to a shopping centre near you – and all in the name of cultural sensitivity.

From next week, shoppers in Rochdale who push open the cubicle door expecting the reassuring sight of a modern, clean lavatory could instead be faced with little more than a hole in the ground.

Mike Bone, of the British Toilet Association, warned the washing facilities associated with squat toilets could pose a hygiene hazard.  ‘We really don’t see a need for them,’ he said. ‘Space for public toilets in places like shopping centres is already at a premium, and if this is meant to cater for Muslims we would point out that the vast majority use normal toilets in their own homes.’

Many years ago while cycling around Brittany I remember – after weeks of deprivation – the joy of luxuriating in the comfort of a hard-to-find proper Crapper toilet; primitive inconveniences have now made their way to the UK. Such is the march of progress.

An interesting interview with Melanie Phillips on The World Turned Upside Down. Although an agnostic, she understands something that eludes the new atheists: our civilisation is build upon Christianity and Judaism; remove them and you lose the civilisation.

You don’t have to be a religious believer to understand that if religion — more specifically, the Hebrew Bible and the Christianity that built upon it — underpins Western civilization and the codes of right and wrong — putting others above yourself, freedom and equality, and belief in reason — that form the bedrock of that civilization, then eroding or destroying that religion will erode or destroy those virtues and the civilization they distinguish…

The real problem in Britain is not Islam but the vacuum in British culture which Islam is opportunistically attempting to fill. That vacuum has been caused by the retreat and surrender of the Christian church under the tide of secularism and aggressive atheism. This has opened the door not to an age of reason but to an epidemic of paganism — environmentalism, or worship of the earth, is the most conspicuous example, but there’s lots of other absurd stuff, too, such as seances, crystals, astrology, and the like.

And I fear that, along with other mainline churches, the Anglican Church – having helped create the spiritual vacuum in the first place – has not only thrown its hand in with paganism, but is vigorously promoting it. All in its increasingly futile attempt to remain relevant.