Normal Country (19)

Even as ‘prayers’ go — I mean, the very concept is ludicrous, is it not? — the example that follows is an embarrassingly lousy one: if the aim was to conceal a reeking lie (“… her care for her people…”) by swaddling it in a text whose vocabulary and meaning require one to think and feel like a three-year-old, then it succeeded completely…

— At which point, you may be feeling the knee-jerk urge to hit off some carping trope about ‘how things have changed!’, about how much more concerned the ‘old’ C of E would have been to put out a text that had in it some element of ‘elevation’, some resource of quietly poetic expression as would give ordinary persons some hint of the extraordinary…

Well, let me tell you: if that’s how you feel, just make sure that you don’t make the mistake of ‘going public’ with your feelings anywhere on the internet.

Because, as far as the most basic and essential things are concerned — and by that I mean power and control, not least over the minds of the helpless public — the C of E hasn’t changed at all…

MD

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