Dear reader, a letter, from our sage of the near-north who has made an observation about our second greatest ever P.M that you wont find in the ‘Catholic Boys Daily’, ( the Australian) and a postscript from our man from beyond; ‘ A Town Like Alice”.

read on…

‘Well now, ‘plus ca change…’

In 1209 the French town of Beziers, up the road from Carcassonne, was besieged by Crusaders . The town, it seems, was infected with the Cathar belief system which suggested that the world (and the Catholic Church) were corrupt and in league with Satan. Many, many people, too many as far as the Church was concerned, agreed with the Cathars.

‘Get rid of these bloody Cathars,” screamed the Vatican, ‘ they are becoming a serious threat to our profit margin! ‘

And so  the Albigensian Crusade began, with the town of Albi, in the Languedoc, where the worst of these heretics hung out. The besieged town of Beziers was also infected with both loyal Catholics and heretics. The Crusaders prepared to bust in.

‘If we are going to massacre people when we get inside,’ asked the siege commander politely, “how can we tell the righteous from the heretics?’

‘Ah don’t bother your head with fucken details like that.’ replied the Cistercian abbot, who led the Crusade, making the sign of the cross and winking, ‘ Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.’

Which roughly translates as:

‘Kill them all, for fuck’s sake, God will recognize his own.’ (expletives added)

It is a disputed figure but one estimate puts the body count at twenty thousand.

It occurs to me that the West, and this includes our own evangelical ScoMo, by refusing to temporarily waive patents on vaccines,( so that people might live) is continuing the Vatican’s work. The profit motive is everything, as was the case back in 1209. The Vatican, the Church, already fabulously rich then, was protecting its right to make enormous amounts of  money through various systems of taxation, levies and loans.

To waive patents in modern times, even with our massive wealth, is an unthinkable heresy to Western ears.A time of plague is a time to make huge profits. Just like bread and cheese, medication is just another commodity to be bought and sold. The idea of selling something at cost or offered free (perish the thought) is absolute anathema to this modern Vatican.

‘How dare you believe that we would give you back your life at no cost. How very double dare you.’

‘But Lord ScoMo,  the streets are filled with the dead and dying.’

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‘Let them die. God will recog– oh sorry, I’ll pray for them all, I promise.’

   Here’s modern Christianity continuing its two thousand year old tradition of unending corruption.How on God’s green earth can ScoMo, the U.S.and most of Western Europe’s Jesus obsessed rabble describe themselves as followers of God?  They are entirely without honour,  without compassion, a rag-tag remnant of the most corrupt religious business organization to have ever walked the earth.

People are falling down dead, all over the world, whilst these  ‘Christians’ turn their minds to maximising profit.

If Heaven exists and these men are asked to give an account of their stewardship I hate to think how their accounts might be received’.

The postscript;

‘In Yuendumu, years ago, Brother Barry was a mechanic who also happened to be a fervent Pentecostal. He tried laying on of hands on broken down motorcars.