Malcolm French

The truth often causes reputational damage when you’re a fascist.

The truth often causes reputational damage to fascists.

Okay, I’ll buy that.

But I have trouble imagining the person who would love both Haugen’s music and Hegseth’s commitment to evil.

To be crystal clear:

This video clip includes the United States Secretary of Defence committing a war crime under both the Geneva Convention and the Universal Code of Service Discipline.

Just sayin’.

#WarCrime

Wild.

And so suspect anyone who likes what Pete Hegseth stands for probably hates Marty Haugen’s music, and vice versa.

The next stage of Project 2025 will be to establish evangelical Christian Nationalism as the official religion of the United States, banning not only Islam and other non Christian religions, but also banning all other Christian churches.

Last night, my elder grandson had his first ever experience of flaming cheese.

I will point out that about ten years ago the Anglican Communion Office advertised for a Director of Communications.

The only priest in the Anglican Communion with a professional accreditation in Communications and Public Relations applied.

He was not short listed.

Twice.

Need one say more?

The enemy is indeed inside the gates.

He’s seated as the senior United States Senator for Louisiana.

TERFs are no Suffragettes. They are a disgrace to feminism. Pathetic groveling losers who cling to the coattails of rich sex offenders and aggressively spout misogyny.

Surprising that a transphobic haterag like @theguardian.com would even interview someone who doesn’t hate trans people, let alone would publish what they said.

Less surprising, though, that they’ve buried it on their website.

8/8

So if you’re thinking of holding a “Christian Seder” on the Thursday night before Good Friday, please just don’t.

#NoChristianSeders

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Holy Week has a very bad history for Jews. It was often the pretext for persecution, pogrom, and mass murder. Cosplaying their rituals is offensive enough on its own. Cosplaying their rituals in Holy Week is particularly horrific.

#NoChristianSeders

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If you are from a non-liturgical Christian denomination and you want to appropriate a ritual observance for the Thursday before Easter, appropriate it from your fellow Christians, not from our Jewish cousins.

Heck, you don’t have to steal it. I offer it to you as a gift.

#NoChristianSeders

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Thirdly, Christians have our own rituals associated with Maundy Thursday and the Holy Triduum. Folk in liturgical traditions especially have proper liturgies for Maundy Thursday, including Foot Washing and Holy Communion. Those liturgies do *not* include a “Christian Seder.”

#NoChristianSeders

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As an aside, it really isn’t clear that the Last Supper was a Passover meal. John is pretty clear it was the night before, which makes more sense in a number of ways.

#NoChristianSeders

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Secondly, we don’t have any remote claim to the Seder.

No, the Last Supper (even if it was a Passover meal) was *NOT* a Seder.

The Seder ritual did not exist at the time of Jesus, nor indeed until a couple of centuries later.

#NoChristianSeders

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First and most important of all, we shouldn’t do it because our Jewish cousins have asked us not to do it. It is disrespectful to them when we cosplay their religious rituals.

How would you react if the local Mosque decided to do a “Muslim Communion Service”?

#NoChristianSeders

We are approaching that time of year when it is a good idea to remind my brother and sister Christian clergy:

If you are thinking of having a “Christian Seder” on Maundy Thursday, just don’t.

#NoChristianSeders

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Didn’t think you were. Sincerely, thanks for the correction.

Shouldn’t that be “I’d never have appointed Lord Mandelson if I’d know then what I knew then” ???

I’m 52, a post grad student who works part time in a supermarket and makes music.

I love cinema, music, cats and dogs.

I’ve never hurt anyone, I just want a quiet life but I’m trans, so Labour don’t think I should exist anymore.

I’m 62, retired. I like music, sport, theatre etc. I’m dingle and have no children.

I’m learning piano and love spending time with my extended family, and my football family.

I’ve never hurt anyone, I just want a quiet life but I’m trans, so Labour don’t think I should exist anymore.

I’m essentially really boring. I have a pretty standard 9-5 office job like almost everyone else.

I’m learning the piano, love walks in nature and used to be majorly into photography.

I’ve never hurt anyone, I just wanted a quiet life but I’m trans, so Labour don’t think I should exist anymore.

The word 'Labour' in red letters with a bloody hand print.

I'm a parent, a grandparent, and a dog mum.

I'm a writer, a nature lover, and a local history lover who slowly travels the country on a little boat that I live on.

I do no harm to anybody. I just want to live out my little life in peace.

But Labour want me eradicated because I happen to be trans.

The majority of American evangelicals (Amerevangelicals) believe the Left Behind trash novels are part of the Biblical canon, and that the Epistle of James, the Sermon on the Mount, and Magnificat are not.

Obviously I heard (partly) wrong. Thanks.

I don’t care for a chicken hawk like Kenney disrespecting the many fine women, people of colour, First Nations and Métis people, LGBTQ2S people I served with. They all knew what the mission was, and what the mission could become.

We don’t need some half-baked wannabe Hegseth spewing such shite.

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) - Johnny Cash

Apparently Nine Inch Nails will no longer perform the song because their performance of their song doesn’t live up to Cash’s cover.

Apparently I had some family members convinced I could read around 4 or 5. In reality, I just had the stories memorized and could recite them in alignment with the right pages.