Thursday, April 9, 2009

Praise on, Garth

It's Easter (well, almost - it's Maundy Thursday, on which you are apparently supposed to visit seven churches; I'm up to four) so the Herald opinion page is chock-full of articles on religion. Well, there are two of them - three if you consider a large picture of a church to be an article.

The death of Our Lord has got Garth George in a good mood. I can't really be bothered talking about the whole article, but here are some choice quotes that you can contextualise as you wish:
  • "There is always a temptation - and plenty of Christians have given in to it - to use the words of scripture to suit a particular doctrinal, social or political position."
  • "And that means we have to be patient and kind and generous and humble and courteous and unselfish and good-tempered and guileless and sincere, which is what being loving means."
  • "The only way we can attract people to Christ is to be attractive people."
That's Garth George - patient, generous, courteous, good-tempered and attractive. Quite why the Herald lets him publish whatever crap he wants every week is beyond me. Quite possibly people are afraid to tell him otherwise.

In other news, I'm running a sweepstake on what he will write about next week. Personally, I can't decide between gardening and rape.*

*In terms of what he will write about, obviously.

7 comments:

  1. So, Garth is obviously leaving the attracting
    bit to other more attractive Christians.

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  2. "And that means we have to be patient and kind and generous and humble and courteous and unselfish and good-tempered and guileless and sincere, which is what being loving means."

    Next week, he will wite about his denunciation of commas as a way of listing things.

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  3. Oh bless our dear Garth. No rant on the Easter billboard though?

    On another note, it looks like David Cohen over at the NBR gets it.

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/david-cohen/mickey-rourke-bodyslams-local-media

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  4. Maybe he'll reveal what bunnies and eggs and the spring equinox have to do with the tale of Jesus.

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  5. My guess - how he's getting quite old and having bladder problmes and that he's aware of his mortality and how he's really looking forward to going meeting Jesus

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  6. Whoops... either remove the word "going" or add the word "and" after it, your pick.

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  7. I preferred Garth when he was a chain smoking boozer,he was much more fun.

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