Dean of St Paul's Cathedral Announces Resignation - Press Conference

[02Blackbeard]

Question...are either the late Dean, or the Bishop of London Freemasons? How many Freemasons amongst the Trustees?

[02Blackbeard]

ANARCHISM , the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.

Peter Kropotkin,

[02Blackbeard]

Morning Star today, "Knowles was forced to resign when he was caught between remorseless behind-the-scenes pressure from Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron on the one side and Christian doctrine and theover-whelming support of the Anglican laity for the activists on the other".

Dean Knowles, had he had any backbone, would have remained in situ in order to take an unambiguous stand for justice and the Gospel.

[02Blackbeard]

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Edward Abbey.

[02Blackbeard]

Ken Costa is the Chairman of Alpha International, which promotes the Alpha course - an introduction to the Christian faith attended by over 2 million people in the UK and 10 million worldwide – and Church Warden of Holy Trinity Brompton. A Conservative Party donor. OUCH! Hardly the man to be talking to about revolution (if you are expecting an ally). But if you do talk to him, remember he is the adversary of theological liberalism, anarchism, socialism, and any kind of breaking the status quo..

[02Blackbeard]

Jesus never founded any church. Constantine created the Church as we know it.

[02Blackbeard]

Twenty thousand people assembled at Smithfield. Richard II agreed to meet the leaders of the revolt, and listen to their demands. Wat Tyler decided to ride out alone and parley with the King. What was said between Wat Tyler and the King is largely conjecture and little is known of the exact details of the encounter; however, by all accounts the unarmed Tyler was suddenly attacked without warning and killed by the Lord Mayor of London,

[55liveforlove]

It just goes to show that the St Pauls Clergy have never had to deal with anything particularly stressful in their working lives and are in their own cosy little bubble like most of the British Establishment. Any sort of pressure and they roll over like a wet fish. What a bunch of spineless, fairy tale following wimps.

[02Blackbeard]

@55liveforlove St Pauls are trying to manage the protest. It's an exercise in damage limitation for themselves and their cronies.

[barrysbritain1966]

AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED OUR ENGLAND IS BEING CONDITIONED BY THE LIBERAL MEDIA CONSPIRACY INTO A STATE OF SHARIA LAW LET ME EXPLAIN AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE LIBERAL CONSPIRATORS IN ST. PAULS OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS HAVE SLOWLY BEEN CAUSING OUR GREAT NATIONS BASTION OF BRITISH VALUES I.E. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO SLOWLY CRUMBLE BENEATH ITS LIBERAL DEMANDS THIS ATTACK AND DISMANTLING OF OUR GREAT NATIONS MORAL INSTITUTION WILL SLOWLY AND INEVITABLY OPEN THE FLOODGATES FOR SHARIA LAW.

[skawashers]

The cathedral said it had also asked investment banker Ken Costa to head a group looking to reconnect "the financial with the ethical".

Mr Costa, the former chairman of UBS Europe, would work with City, Church, public figures and the former Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser, who would aim to represent the views of the protesters." ....the views of the protesters are surely best represented by themselves...Tthinking they're the voice of the people cos they can talk to god - delusional fuckwits!

[02Blackbeard]

@skawashers Well, yes, the Church wants to MANAGE protest on behalf, not even of the protesters, but on behalf of the Bankers....those people who "generously" (lol) help keep St Pauls open.

The Church has postponed its injunction probably because it feels that its Xtian reputation will be damaged less by allowing the Corporation to do its dirty work for it.

Cunning bastards they are...BEWARE!

[belfasta]

the bishop of london is satan beware

[02Blackbeard]

@belfasta LOL...even Satan would be ashamed to be an Anglican Bishop :D

[02Blackbeard]

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey, in A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis en Deserto) : Notes from a Secret Journal (1990)

[02Blackbeard]

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. … The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

Nikolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom (1939),

[02Blackbeard]

The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision’s greatest enemy.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read’st black where I read white.

His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.

William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel (c.1818)

[02Blackbeard]

"The life of this dark kingly power, which you have made an act of Parliament and oath to cast out, if you search it to the bottom, you shall see it lies within the iron chest of cursed covetousness, who gives the earth to some part of mankind and denies it to another part of mankind: and that part that hath the earth, hath no right from the law of creation to take it to himself and shut out others; but he took it away violently by theft and murder in conquest". Gerrard Whinstanley

[02Blackbeard]

When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty. JOHN BALL

[02Blackbeard]

Clergy = the mutual flattery society. A load of stuffed shirts.

Would Christ have worn a purple shirt and dog collar. Would Christ have worn a Cope?

The Church has nothing to do with Christ. It is the religion of Constantine.

[02Blackbeard]

Establishment survives on filthy money.

[hcwcars1]

what would Jesus do ?

[PanAdele]

@hcwcars1

he is weeping for his church... and he weeps for all that is not right with the world... he weeps with nail scars where here stretched out his arms and died for mankind in order to bring them back to God, though faith in Him...

[02Blackbeard]

@PanAdele But what is HIS CHURCH? Certainly not the Established Church of England.

[PanAdele]

@02Blackbeard of course not... but the CoE is part of the church worldwide.... The church is not made of bricks or mortar but of living stones... and it is built on the rock that Jesus Christ is the Messiah... the Son of God....... and that is what the church is called to build upon still...nothing has changed there....

[02Blackbeard]

@PanAdele Jesus was not the Messiah and neither was he the only-begotten Son of God. That is all archaic tripe.

Jesus was an anarchist.

[hcwcars1]

hopefully he goes outside and pitches a tent !!!

[hcwcars1]

hopefully he goes outside and joins protest !!!