Everyone will remember Bishop Dakin's arrogant utterances until the end of time.
And I have been puzzled by his apparently un-Biblical, silly and arrogant 'Lost, last and least' speech forever.
In Church on Sunday, we heard the story of the men hired from the market place and paid the same for a day's work despite being hired at different times of day.
'The First Shall be last and the last shall be first'.
Of course.
I am the Lost, Last and Least.
And according to my friends, I am doing my purgatory here on earth at the hands of the Church of England.
Makes sense.
I have never seen anyone else publicly flogged as I have been, and by a Church! Penance for all my sins, here on earth.
According to my friends and other bloggers and commenters on my blog, I am closer up the ladder to heaven than my tormentors in the Church of England.
I am not sure I have the right to agree on that.
So, as long as I am lost, last and least, I will get to heaven.
While the arrogant clerics and denomination who brand me, while they have mansions and salaries, will be like the rich man who ignored Lazarus as he sat at their gate. Because they were first, with their finery, their public voice and showing off, so they will be last, they will not see heaven nor get a reward for their public showing off and deception. The Pharisees of the modern age.
As Sam Mezac famously said 'It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of? God?
Should that have been heaven?
Links:
Matthew 19:24 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19:24&version=NIV
Matthew 20:1-16 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+20&version=NIV
Voiceforchildren 2014:9 http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/deputy-sam-mezec-unelected-states.html
lots of fascinating comments on Voice's blog.
Friday, 26 September 2014
Jersey - Run by the City of London
I was surprised to see this article, I had no idea that the running of Jersey by the city of London was so blatant.
Do you remember me mentioning the education system in Jersey, the horrible little girl from First Tower School who used to bully me and thought she was a little adult even though she could barely read or write?
And how I said that to get a proper school education in Jersey you have to pay for it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-29368951
Also, how does this man think the education system can be improved when the schools are swamped with migrant children?
But basically, the States have their priorities wrong, wasting thousands, millions on film money that got fraudulently taken, and Plemont, etc, and leaving schools and services for the ill and disabled struggling..
Jersey is packed with people, it has traffic jams, it is crowded, it is miserable and the beautiful island it was is vanishing under concrete and buildings.
It doesn't need more people.
Do you remember me mentioning the education system in Jersey, the horrible little girl from First Tower School who used to bully me and thought she was a little adult even though she could barely read or write?
And how I said that to get a proper school education in Jersey you have to pay for it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-29368951
Also, how does this man think the education system can be improved when the schools are swamped with migrant children?
But basically, the States have their priorities wrong, wasting thousands, millions on film money that got fraudulently taken, and Plemont, etc, and leaving schools and services for the ill and disabled struggling..
Jersey is packed with people, it has traffic jams, it is crowded, it is miserable and the beautiful island it was is vanishing under concrete and buildings.
It doesn't need more people.
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Sam Mezec speaks about the Dean in the States - worth a watch, it speaks for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fGhLjLTOcY
This should spark a desparate PR campaign by the Dean's supporting Diocese, the diocese of winchester who have destroyed me to protect him.
The reason this is posted is because it verbalizes what I have been trying for so long to say about separation of church and state, in the UK as well as Jersey. The Jersey situation is a miniature of the House of Lords UK situation .
This should spark a desparate PR campaign by the Dean's supporting Diocese, the diocese of winchester who have destroyed me to protect him.
The reason this is posted is because it verbalizes what I have been trying for so long to say about separation of church and state, in the UK as well as Jersey. The Jersey situation is a miniature of the House of Lords UK situation .
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Voice comments, fascinating
Fingering the Jersey Nazi Party23 September 2014 15:44
"If the point of this comment is to make you look clever, you failed..."
No, one point of that comment was to educate you ... and perhaps a few other readers who are conditioned into unquestioningly swallowing Jersey establishment misinformation.
Perhaps in your case (and any who are 'resistant to education') this was an unrealistic hope and I apologise. An effort domed to failure.
The main point (& in support of the video) is that The New Testament/ Christian message is largely a socialist one if one is going to attempt to analyse a religion along Left-Right/Party-Political lines.
The first poster "Anonymous 10:48" on this seems hyper focused on this left-right/socialist issue and perhaps tellingly plays the xenophobic scare card (perhaps racist even?)
"Anonymous" continues to shoot himself in the other foot by branding Sam/RJ as the "Looney left"
I have never seen the "Looney left"look so sensible. We surely have more of a problem with the "Rabid Right" in Jersey. In some cases the extreme right ;-)
As I and the video point out it is rather bizarre that the Christian (predominately socialist) message has been hijacked and even turned upon it's head in Jersey by "the Orifice of the Dean" and it's closely aligned Jersey Establishment.
Is anyone who too closely follows this leadership inadvertently stumbling into damnation rather than the resurrection they so desperately seek?
The intervention of the Jersey establishment has apparently "exonerated" Dean Bob Key
Does this mean that Bob Key has WITHDRAWN HIS APOLOGY for his safeguarding failures and his subsequent mishandling ?????
If so Bob Key has shown himself to be rather lacking in moral backbone to have let himself be bullied into making said apology in the first place?
Of course Bob Key would avoid an interview with VFC because BALANCE would require him to answer these difficult questions and many others !
Dean Bob Key has only been pronounced "exonerated" inside the ultra-insular Jersey bubble. The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S apology still stands.
They don't grow on trees you know, and Team Bailhache again shafts Jersey internationally.
What were you saying about the [back] office of your dean?
Shine a light on that if you dare.......
No, one point of that comment was to educate you ... and perhaps a few other readers who are conditioned into unquestioningly swallowing Jersey establishment misinformation.
Perhaps in your case (and any who are 'resistant to education') this was an unrealistic hope and I apologise. An effort domed to failure.
The main point (& in support of the video) is that The New Testament/ Christian message is largely a socialist one if one is going to attempt to analyse a religion along Left-Right/Party-Political lines.
The first poster "Anonymous 10:48" on this seems hyper focused on this left-right/socialist issue and perhaps tellingly plays the xenophobic scare card (perhaps racist even?)
"Anonymous" continues to shoot himself in the other foot by branding Sam/RJ as the "Looney left"
I have never seen the "Looney left"look so sensible. We surely have more of a problem with the "Rabid Right" in Jersey. In some cases the extreme right ;-)
As I and the video point out it is rather bizarre that the Christian (predominately socialist) message has been hijacked and even turned upon it's head in Jersey by "the Orifice of the Dean" and it's closely aligned Jersey Establishment.
Is anyone who too closely follows this leadership inadvertently stumbling into damnation rather than the resurrection they so desperately seek?
The intervention of the Jersey establishment has apparently "exonerated" Dean Bob Key
Does this mean that Bob Key has WITHDRAWN HIS APOLOGY for his safeguarding failures and his subsequent mishandling ?????
If so Bob Key has shown himself to be rather lacking in moral backbone to have let himself be bullied into making said apology in the first place?
Of course Bob Key would avoid an interview with VFC because BALANCE would require him to answer these difficult questions and many others !
Dean Bob Key has only been pronounced "exonerated" inside the ultra-insular Jersey bubble. The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S apology still stands.
They don't grow on trees you know, and Team Bailhache again shafts Jersey internationally.
What were you saying about the [back] office of your dean?
Shine a light on that if you dare.......
Good stuff, the communist or Nazi comment is quite complex but the uppity Anglican who owns the dean is pushed into a sulk! :)
- Anonymous22 September 2014 23:09Reply
Anonymous22 September 2014 20:16
The Dean provides an important non-aligned independent voice and spiritual insight within the States Chamber, the Dean make no claims to direct representation, his office seeks to be a voice for all people of faith, not just Christians. Stop skirting around the issue, and ask the Dean for an interview VFC...
Good idea Anony @ 20:16
VFC If you decide to invite the Dean for an interview would you please add these to your list of questions from a person that has not seen a wage increase increase a very long time.
a. Who paid for the rebuilding of the town church organ costing £250,000 ?
b. The position of Dean as acknowledged head of the CoE in Jersey, is a recipient state benefits, can he please explain how he is a non-aligned independent voice, as Anony @ 20.16 and probably others claim ?
c. Do the mature members of Government need lectures on spiritual insight, does the Dean feel that if this is the case they should attend their own churches ?
d. For what reason was the Dean sent to Maderia after the HG problem. Did the tax payers fund the trip, and if so what was the purpose, obviously not politics as he is not elected.
e. Dr Gavin Ashenden speaking on BBC Jersey to Matthew Price was asked how much money annually Jersey contributes to the diocese off island, he replied in the region of £800,000 as the Dean is head of the CoE what is the exact amount and could he also supply the amount figure the parishes pay for the upkeep of the churches and other staff expenses.
f. Is the Dean comfortable living in a mansion and receiving a wage that would help purchase food for Jersey's active food bank charity, does he know Gerry Padden ?
Gerry Padden, from the Grace Trust, said: "We're quite a wealthy island and we have people who are struggling to make ends meet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-26406615
Tim.Anonymous -
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Jesus ..... a Communist or a Nazi?Reply
Well there is a little bit for everybody in the "good book" (inc. current editions) but on balance Jesus cannot be accurately described as either Communist or a Nazi.
Of the two, the bible describes him as far closer to a Communist who was tortured to death by occupying and occupied Nazi regimes. I think it fair to describe him as a deep pink socialist, at the very least.
After a few decades Christianity was adopted by the (Nazi) regime of Rome and spread thought the empire and a millennia later across much of the world by conquistadors and missionaries and regularly enforced with an iron hand and a sharp blade.
In more recent times there have been wholesale theft of children from tribal communities so that their children can be "saved", and all too regularly abused and serial raped. Even in [civilised' countries like Canada!!!
So the Jersey Dean is hardly anything new. Just the local incarnation of the theo-political animal coming in political shades from deep blue to black.
The christian message is lost to a PR soundbite as cover for the most unchristian behaviours.
If there is a god, perhaps this is her way of trapping the morally and intellectually weak and the easily led?
Well, isn't life a bitch? LOL
I am a right leaning liberal but socialism is nothing to be ashamed of. "Socialism" gives us things such as universal education (yes, even for poor children), Pensions for old people (yes, including those who made little or no SS contributions; which came into existence later) And medical treatment for ill people like Kristina Moore (or did she go 100% private .....within a "socialist" funded hospital)
So people like the persistent commenter on this thread who seek to use the word "socialist" (or even liberal?) as an insult, are either ........
.....rather stupid
or
.....rather fascist
This is shocking, but not uncommon as some of the extremes of conservatism, religious-conservatism and neo-conservatism are well into fascist territory.
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Anonymous23 September 2014 14:07If the point of this comment is to make you look clever, you failed...
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Anonymous23 September 2014 14:13I am sure he is brokenhearted at that response.
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Tim is good at this comments
Anonymous22 September 2014 23:09
Anonymous22 September 2014 20:16
The Dean provides an important non-aligned independent voice and spiritual insight within the States Chamber, the Dean make no claims to direct representation, his office seeks to be a voice for all people of faith, not just Christians. Stop skirting around the issue, and ask the Dean for an interview VFC...
Good idea Anony @ 20:16
VFC If you decide to invite the Dean for an interview would you please add these to your list of questions from a person that has not seen a wage increase increase a very long time.
a. Who paid for the rebuilding of the town church organ costing £250,000 ?
b. The position of Dean as acknowledged head of the CoE in Jersey, is a recipient state benefits, can he please explain how he is a non-aligned independent voice, as Anony @ 20.16 and probably others claim ?
c. Do the mature members of Government need lectures on spiritual insight, does the Dean feel that if this is the case they should attend their own churches ?
d. For what reason was the Dean sent to Maderia after the HG problem. Did the tax payers fund the trip, and if so what was the purpose, obviously not politics as he is not elected.
e. Dr Gavin Ashenden speaking on BBC Jersey to Matthew Price was asked how much money annually Jersey contributes to the diocese off island, he replied in the region of £800,000 as the Dean is head of the CoE what is the exact amount and could he also supply the amount figure the parishes pay for the upkeep of the churches and other staff expenses.
f. Is the Dean comfortable living in a mansion and receiving a wage that would help purchase food for Jersey's active food bank charity, does he know Gerry Padden ?
Gerry Padden, from the Grace Trust, said: "We're quite a wealthy island and we have people who are struggling to make ends meet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-26406615
Tim.
I'm just going to nick comments off VoiceforChildren's blog and see if they object or lynch me
- Jill Gracia22 September 2014 15:3412:12 "majority of the Jersey electorate are Christian and as such are happy to see Christianity represented in the States of Jersey by the orifice of the Dean."Reply
I would dispute that the majority of the Jersey electorate are Christian as in being Church-goers and God fearing people. It is possible for people to live by Christian values and morals without having to adhere to any religion, and the vast majority of good, thinking, intelligent people I know and speak to have actually turned away from a faith for a large number of reasons.
I agree wholly with Sam that this man should not be funded by the tax-payer to sit in the States. I am sure there are many deserving people or causes that could make good use of his salary, whilst he himself could be spending that time more usefully.
Whilst you have been diplomatic enough VFC not to get drawn into the discussion of what the Dean does, or does not do in the Island, a lot of us have long memories and could actually pin-point an instance where he clearly did nothing, when clearly he should.
As is proven time and time again religion and politics do not and should not mix.
Anonymous -
Anonymous22 September 2014 18:45I agree completely with Sam's view here: there should be full separation of Church and State, and the Dean should not be allowed to participate in debates in the States. However, let's be honest (and I suspect you will get around to this in Part 2), the presence of the Dean is inconsequential when compared to the fact that a significant proportion of full States members (i.e. Constables and Deputies) are "elected" unopposed or by a tiny number of voters.Reply
I'm afraid I include Sam himself in this category. Sam received 277 votes in a turn-out of 13%. This gives him no moral right whatsoever to lecture anybody about other States members having no right to participate in debates, when he himself was returned on such a laughably small vote.
I will give him and the other Reform Party candidates a lot more credit if they stand on an island-wide mandate rather than in the deputorial elections. The fact that they seek to bring about fundamental reform of the Island through the broken deputorial system does them as little credit as the establishment's perpetuation of the equally unacceptable system of Constables sitting in the States. -
Anonymous22 September 2014 18:45Hi VFC,Reply
Off topic, but have you seen that @politicsjersey tweet today...?
"Home Affairs Minister says the Graham Power suspension could've been handled better, regrets the cost but says outcome would've been same"
We are talking hundreds of thousands of pounds wasted and the unblemished reputation of a great chief police officer being unfairly attacked, to cover up the misdeeds of others. It remains an absolute scandal.
Perhaps you could get Graham Power to write an open letter to Ian Le Marquand, asking him exactly how it could have been handled better? Maybe Ian Le Marquand could have chosen not to hide in the toilet when Graham Power's wife tried to serve legal papers on him? Is that how it could have been handled better, Ian, eh?
What a total disgrace!Anonymous - Something tells me the disgraced Home Affairs Minister(s) haven't seem/heard the last from Graham Power yet.
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Anonymous22 September 2014 19:29Excellent news.
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In fact Graham Power QPM doesn't necessarily disagree with Ian Le Marquand in that "the outcome would've been same." Ian Le Marquand had positioned himself both as prosecutor and judge! What other outcome could there have been?
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Anonymous22 September 2014 19:58As with some of ILM's other cases where he is conflicted, including in the church.
Monday, 22 September 2014
This comment from VoiceforChildren's latest blog kind of says what I have tried to say for so long. Voice can lynch me for nicking it
Just to add my own comment, the CofE is a club where wealthy elderly people put their 10% in and look down on others as they believe their membership makes them Christians.
This is the blog post that the comment below comes from:
http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/deputy-sam-mezec-unelected-states.html
Anonymous22 September 2014 19:06
Taken fron the Guernsey press comments section. The debate is running in parallel with the Deans position on Jersey.
http://guernseypress.com/news/2014/09/16/parish-right-to-sell-off-rectories-may-be-blocked/
Comments section
Tim South
September 21, 2014 11:19 pm
We have the same problem in Jersey.
As many of you may be aware history tells us that the horny king Henry the VIII had trouble being married to one woman, and the Vatican being Catholic would not allow divorce. Not a problem if you are the king of England so he basically formed his own church, the Church of England and placed himself as it’s head. Then he could and would and did as he pleased including chopping of his wife’s head or imprisoning them.
The Vatican was wealthy and the CoE was funded by the people with the King as the overall leader.
This church has been handed down from Monarch to Monarch through the centuries and now the Queen is boss the subjects fund the church as do the congregations.
It is high time that this historic feudal setup is scrapped for several reasons some of which are mentioned above. Whichever God you may worship, it is your choice, but all religion’s as in the Mormons, Catholics,’ Muslims etc should be paid for by followers. All have charity status meaning they are not obliged to pay taxes.
It is discriminatory against other religions that the tax and ratepayers fund the Queens inherited religion. Why should other religions or atheists have to dig into their pockets to support the CoE when there is no connection ?
The strongest personal objection is that religion is invited into Government in a lobbying capacity and to say prayers and be rewarded by the taxpayer is just ridiculous. I am unsure of the pay in Guernsey but the Dean Bob Key in Jersey receives £26,100 per year in addition to everything else, everything else means a very large newly painted rectory and all utility and accounts paid, plus a recent tax funded trip to Madeira representing Jersey.
This may have been the norm in Henry VIII time but it is nothing short of a scandal today. The big question is why the States members are allowing this abuse of public money.
A comment above says it is not particularly expensive to fund the CoE, I disagree. The Church of England accounts show a portfolio of property, ( the Wonga shareholding has been removed after criticism ) shares and other assets valued at £5 billion.
They can afford to fund themselves, and if they are supposed to be doing Christ’s work how is it that they are sitting on such a fortune, given the amount of starving, poor and destitute in this world ?
That’s a question States members might be asking their Dean.
Bob Hill has some interesting information on his blog.
http://bobhilljersey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/jerseys-dean-steel-and-gladwin-reports.html
http://guernseypress.com/news/2014/09/16/parish-right-to-sell-off-rectories-may-be-blocked/
Comments section
Tim South
September 21, 2014 11:19 pm
We have the same problem in Jersey.
As many of you may be aware history tells us that the horny king Henry the VIII had trouble being married to one woman, and the Vatican being Catholic would not allow divorce. Not a problem if you are the king of England so he basically formed his own church, the Church of England and placed himself as it’s head. Then he could and would and did as he pleased including chopping of his wife’s head or imprisoning them.
The Vatican was wealthy and the CoE was funded by the people with the King as the overall leader.
This church has been handed down from Monarch to Monarch through the centuries and now the Queen is boss the subjects fund the church as do the congregations.
It is high time that this historic feudal setup is scrapped for several reasons some of which are mentioned above. Whichever God you may worship, it is your choice, but all religion’s as in the Mormons, Catholics,’ Muslims etc should be paid for by followers. All have charity status meaning they are not obliged to pay taxes.
It is discriminatory against other religions that the tax and ratepayers fund the Queens inherited religion. Why should other religions or atheists have to dig into their pockets to support the CoE when there is no connection ?
The strongest personal objection is that religion is invited into Government in a lobbying capacity and to say prayers and be rewarded by the taxpayer is just ridiculous. I am unsure of the pay in Guernsey but the Dean Bob Key in Jersey receives £26,100 per year in addition to everything else, everything else means a very large newly painted rectory and all utility and accounts paid, plus a recent tax funded trip to Madeira representing Jersey.
This may have been the norm in Henry VIII time but it is nothing short of a scandal today. The big question is why the States members are allowing this abuse of public money.
A comment above says it is not particularly expensive to fund the CoE, I disagree. The Church of England accounts show a portfolio of property, ( the Wonga shareholding has been removed after criticism ) shares and other assets valued at £5 billion.
They can afford to fund themselves, and if they are supposed to be doing Christ’s work how is it that they are sitting on such a fortune, given the amount of starving, poor and destitute in this world ?
That’s a question States members might be asking their Dean.
Bob Hill has some interesting information on his blog.
http://bobhilljersey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/jerseys-dean-steel-and-gladwin-reports.html
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