Thou shalt steal.....

[CreatureComforts]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8425420.stm
The wonderfully progressive clergyman, Father Tim Jones, a parish priest from York, has advised those in need to go out and shoplift - preferably from large chain stores.

Father Jones commented that God's love for the poor outweighs the property rights of the rich....

Actually, this was a message often preached by the late Father Brendan O'Flannel who served as chaplain to the Association Of Wandering Travellers (AOWT) for many years until his death in 2007.

Father O'Flannel, a fiery orator and aficionado of Irish whisky, used to hold his congregation spellbound as he urged upon them their Christian duty to remove caravans from driveways and storage compounds - always maintaining that God's love for poor travellers far outweighed any so-called 'rights' that caravan owners thought they had.

Always a controversial cleric, Father O'Flannel was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods when police raided a harvest thanksgiving service in Doncaster that was attended by a large gathering of AWOT members, each of whom brought along a stolen caravan to donate to Father O'Flannel's missionary fund.

Although charges against him were later dropped, Father O'Flannel always maintained that he was doing nothing other than God's work - and demanded the return of the 37 caravans seized by police during the raid, stating that they had been donated to his church in good faith, and should be distributed at a knock-down price to travellers in need.

It's good to see someone like Father Jones taking up O'Flannel's mantle, now that good Priest has gone to sojourn in the great caravan site beyond the sky....

Anyway, I'm now off to Marks & Sparks to do *my* Christian duty - anyone want anything in particular?.....

 

[machighlander]

well, if yer near any caravan suppliers hows about an alko 3004

 

[CreatureComforts]

well, if yer near any caravan suppliers hows about an alko 3004 ⇦br/>

Ask and thou shalt receive - but why not exercise your faith more, and request a new caravan bolted on to that Alko 3004

In fact, the *truly* Christian thing would be to take, not only the caravan & hitch, but a nice new tow car to pull it with - and perhaps an Isabella awning, and a good selection of accessories?

Father Jones' message is just the thing needed to put the spark back into Christian worship in this country - I foresee packed churches, with congregations preening themselves in their newly stolen clothes...

 

[machighlander]

do they hold sermons up here in Scotland ?

 

[CreatureComforts]

Ahhhh, you may laugh - but a progresive Gospel, as preached by Father Tim, is just the thing needed to revitalise the church!

Imagine - instead of folorn empty buildings, we could have churches packed out with worshippers, all arriving in nice new stolen cars, wearing smart stolen Sunday best, and putting stolen

 

[machighlander]

nae harm here buddy, but i think ye are a wee bit mixed up between "parishioners" and "politicians".

 

[CreatureComforts]

nae harm here buddy, but i think ye are a wee bit mixed up between "parishioners" and "politicians"⇦br/>

Ah'm nae muddled, Ye aul' barmpot! - it's taken a son of the Manse to turn us all into a nation of rougues, and Father Tim's startlingly innovative gospel message is just a logical extension of the trend.

We need a *totally* corrupt nation - and, Labour has *almost* managed to acheive it. The government, the judiciary, the financial institutions are all now splendidly corrupt - only the Church remains outside the gleeful circle of dishonesty, and Father Tim's 'Steal while you pray' doctine seesm to be just what's needed to bring Christians in to join the fun.

Only then can our national ruin be completed.

 

[machighlander]

hey, shoot fae the hip (prob a plastic one), wow, i never looked at it in this way. next thing is we will be getting infiltrated wi gays in the church hierarchy as well.

 

[CreatureComforts]

I'm looking forward to reading about the first person to appear before York magistrates, and tell the beaks that the local parish priest had instructed them to go out on the rob

It's an attractive idea - forget '2-4-1' offers - how about 10-4-Free'?, and I'm assuming that Father Tim's teaching also applies to things like filling your tank with fuel, and then driving merrily off?

I certainly intend to tell TV Licencing that I won't be renewing this time around because it would be sinful..

 

[machighlander]

thats even more like the politicians, wee bit of similarity here.

 

[landypete]

I wonder if it was one of father tim jones lot that ripped my front window of my van at weekend and done

 

[machighlander]

now now peter, ye need to look at it in a diferrent perspective now, read the original post here. maybe they were only doing what they thought was divinely their right to do.

gie me ten minutes wi them in a locked room.

 

[CreatureComforts]

I wonder if it was one of father tim jones lot that ripped my front window of my van at weekend and done

 

[CreatureComforts]

gie me ten minutes wi them in a locked room⇦br/>

Och! - theid hae y're watch, y're wallet an' y're boots afore ye cuid finsh the opening prayer

 

[machighlander]

ha ha, i know who would be doing the praying buddy, rest assured.

 

[landypete]

I wonder if it was one of father tim jones lot that ripped my front window of my van at weekend and done

 

[Gary-Yorks]

More than ever im convinced i should have listened to my dear late mother,she always called me a heathen for not going to church.

Would i listen,No,i always believed if you wanted something you worked to get it even on the sabbath,how wrong was i.If i had listened to her just think what i could have now!.Unbelieavable what this so called righteous priest has come out with and the worst part some of his local flock within 1/2mile are the AOWT that have stopped wandering!!

Just what we need in York more thieving scum NOT!

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

More than ever im convinced i should have listened to my dear late mother,she always called me a heathen for not going to church.

Would i listen,No,i always believed if you wanted something you worked to get it even on the sabbath,how wrong was i.If i had listened to her just think what i could have now!.Unbelieavable what this so called righteous priest has come out with and the worst part some of his local flock within 1/2mile are the AOWT that have stopped wandering!!

Just what we need in York more thieving scum NOT!

Is it any wonder that's what he preaches. By keeping in with them he's guaranteeing the lead stays on the church roof :O)

 

[Parksy]

And here endeth the lesson

Verily I say unto thee

Let us leave the politicians, travellers and scum of whatever denomination for the gospel according to the Daily Mail, turn the other cheek and rejoice in the joy of caravaning

Amen!