The Wardman Wire

The retired Generals were out in formation at the Telegraph yesterday, harrumphing with the best of them from Tunbridge Wells in the comments to Peter Mullen’s article.

This is Rev Dr Peter Mullen on the modern church:

This is, of course, only political correctness tacked on to the failed collectivist social agenda that our rulers in the General Synod have foisted on us for a generation.

They have abolished the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Even in this desecration there was the pretence to literacy as they replaced the old books with new ones. Now there is not even the persistence of anything you could properly call a book.

There is something called Common Worship, which only really exists in cyberspace as a hailstorm of downloads. If they ever collected Common Worship in one place, you would need a wheelbarrow to carry it to church.

It’s a pantomime: a dumbed-down, clapped-out imitation of the entertainment industry combined with the newspeak of bureaucratic control. Once there was the Church of England. Now there is only the new Babel.

Read the comments:

Yes the CoE is bonkers - but look at the last 3 Archbishops and despair ! I cannot make up my mind whether Rowan Williams is Rory Bremner or vice versa.

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Our poor Padre seems to work 24/7,and appears to be constantly worried about fund raising to meet various targets.

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Wow, it seems that Revd Mullen is the kind of cannon that the Church of England needs, blowing a hole in the nonsense that it has come to espouse. Let’s hope there are enough who have the courage to stand behind him to stop the slide into political correct extinction and to reassert the Church’s real calling.

Hmmm. I’d love to hear Fr Mullen in debate with George Galloway.

Never mind “Hot Ginger and Dynamite” (one of the best political blog names in my view *), it would be Diesel Oil and Nitric Acid (for anoraks: that was a self-igniting rocket fuel used for a missile at Peenemünde).

(*) I can’t bring myself to do the “Hot, Ginger and Dynamite” punctuation as applied by some - too much like a Chris Evans fetish.