Kate Bottley - not as wicked as we first thought?
Traditionally, Fr Kate has been regarded as a buffoon who danced in church and later sold her soul to Channel 4's Gogglebox for a sum estimated at "30 pieces of silver". Certainly, there are some who think of her as a "disciple gone wrong". Mr Iscariot, however, feels a certain sympathy for this poor woman. "This is not to say 'Oh Kate, she's all right really', what we are saying is perhaps there is something else to this character than the dancing, the left-wing bigotry, and the dreadful TV show" he said.
Cain slaying Abel. But he wasn't just a murderer.
In an article in the Radio Times "Nick" Baines, Anglican bishop of Leeds, West Yorkshire, the Dales, and the Northern Powerhouse, re-appraises Cain. "I feel a bit sorry for Cain," he says. "He's gone down in history as a murderer, but we tend to forget his skills as a gardener, and the fact that he was a loving father to Enoch."
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Fr Kate agrees. "I travelled to Mesopotamia. You have to look really hard to find anything about Cain, he's a really shadowy figure, even when you go to the place where he killed Abel, you have to look really hard to find any reference to him."
Yes, it is time we re-appraised all these people: Cain, Judas, Nick, and Kate. Perhaps after all they are not as bad as we thought.
What about Satan? Surely he has feelings too? Awwww, let's not drive him out, it might make him feel sad :(
ReplyDeleteForget it Clare. One thing we do not do in Hell is luurv however much we may promote it elsewhere. Satan.
ReplyDeleteOne assumes that, now, Iain Duncan Smith has been put in the same category as Mr Cain, Mr Judas, Mr Nick, and Fr Kate ?
ReplyDeleteOh, I know nothing about politics.
DeleteWell, it's like claiming the jews killed Christ - how anti-semitic can one get?
ReplyDeleteIt was noticed by the fashion correspondent for Vogue - Mother Kate had creases in her chasuble which would give anyone a bad press!
ReplyDeletePity the bride couldn't have got dressed before going to church.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that only people of my age (very old) know that the Wednesday of Holy Week is called Spy Wednesday. These traditions need to be preserved.
ReplyDeleteWell, we've had about three decades of "reappraising" people who were previously thought to be, y'know, all right. Such as Mother Teresa, Captain Scott, Florence Nightingale, Jane Austen. Make your academic reputation (of a sort) by trashing their memories, folks. So, having run out of the safely dead to slander, those desperate for attention are turning to "reappraising" those previously agreed to be not, y'know, all right. May we look forward to the rehabilitation of Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Emperor Caligula? The world awaits.
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