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Topic History of: WELBY
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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hedda |
Downing Street Cat wrote:
I'm pretty damned sure that if Jesus did return---of course he never will--- he would be accused of something sordid within the first two years. JK is right...a salacious story trumps decency and facts every time. Dirt is craved for.
He'd be on charges for something being a long haired suspect bachelor preaching peace.
Note how the current Pope preaching on behalf of the Palestine people is largely ignored by the world's media. |
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Wyot |
I think JK's point about forgiveness is the central point. If the CoE can't practice forgiveness in the face of mob rule then what is the point of it? It becomes just another politicised institution. Whether you "believe" or not, that is not a good outcome for society. |
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Green Man |
Downing Street Cat wrote:
I'm pretty damned sure that if Jesus did return---of course he never will--- he would be accused of something sordid within the first two years. JK is right...a salacious story trumps decency and facts every time. Dirt is craved for.
It's been about over 2000 years, he could have stopped both WW1 and WW2.
Not forgetting saving us all from bubblegum pop.  |
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Downing Street Cat |
I'm pretty damned sure that if Jesus did return---of course he never will--- he would be accused of something sordid within the first two years. JK is right...a salacious story trumps decency and facts every time. Dirt is craved for. |
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Rich |
JK, after you yourself have departed this mortal coil are you concerned that you will have others come along and allege things that you will no longer be able to answer back about?
Three years ago I had a conversation with a well known (gay married man) national radio presenter in the evenings on this issue when we were talking about the Gambo story after he'd been seen on TV slating the BBC in a feisty Victoria Derbyshire interview. This presenter, who shall remain nameless and has not a hint of impropriety against his name was talking less than empathetic about Gambo which surprised me, so I asked him why he couldn't see why Gambo was so angry at what had happened to him and if he himself as a gay man a few years younger wasn't concerned about himself and the possibility that someone out there could simply step forward and make claims against him and attempt to destroy his career and reputation, and maybe succeed. He seemed confident it couldn't happen, but then slightly changed tack and accepted that it was always a slight worry in the background after events in recent years.
I remember working a brief casual job 30 years ago which involved a lot of public interactions. One afternoon I got called in and shown a letter making allegations against me about my behaviour. It alleged serious rudeness to someone during a short encounter lasting two minutes. I recognised who this person was who wrote the letter. It was total fabrication, nothing had happened at all, absolutely nothing, we'd had a normal encounter, no rudeness of any kind or anything to raise issue. Yet this person had gone home, sat down and put pen to paper and fired it off to my employer and very nearly got me dismissed on the spot because of what they had written, which must have been the intention. It made no sense to me, I was confused and couldn't work it out, or why it had happened or why this person had done this to me, I'd not said or done anything to them to warrant it. Maybe some people see it as sport to do such things, I've no idea.
Of course there was no definitive proof either way, just one word against another. Yet my employer put me on a final warning, depsite a clean blameless hard working record, just like that, and seemed to believe one fantasy letter from a stranger over me who they knew. It added insult to the situation, so within a month I gave them no notice and simply walked away to something else better if they allowed themselves to be that easily taken in.
It was just a rudness allegation, nothing worse compared to others, but even so, all these years later I still think about it and wonder why someone told such lies about me to try and get me fired, someone who didn't even know me and who I'd never met before that day. |
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