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His Grace Archbishop Cranmer is celebrating a milestone in the history of his blog. Why not head on over and offer him congratulations? He is currently working on a sermon that might have been preached to the Prime Minister by his father, were he alive today. Judging by his "trailer", that should be good.

His Grace shall post again later. He is still working hard on the sermon he imagines that the Reverend John Brown might today preach to his son, the Prime Minister, whose ‘Presbyterian conscience
appears to have been offended. One wonders what kind of conscience it
is that can endure 12 years of spinning deception, Damian McBride and
Derek Draper, the underselling of the nation's gold reserves, the theft
of billions of pounds of pension reserves, the bringing of the nation to
the brink of bankruptcy and the unrelenting erosion of our Christian
liberties, but is suddenly 'offended' by the relatively trivial abuse
of parliamentary allowances.
The Prime Minister's decision to
'do God' over this issue not only shames Presbyterianism, it offends
against God and would appal the Reverend John Brown who fully
understood what it meant to be Christian.

If Archbishop Cranmer says so, I shall not doubt it. As my readers know, I am even further from being religious than my illustrious namesake, but I always enjoy His Grace's writing. I look forward to this particular sermon as a rare treat.

4 responses to “Cranmer on Brown”

  1. Man in a Shed Avatar

    The interesting thing about Brown is that I’m not at all sure he is a Christian.
    He allows other to make that assumption, leading them up the garden path of his upbringing.
    But at Edinburgh his behaviour certainly wouldn’t square, neither does his behaviour as Chancellor, the history of the way he rose in the Labour party and as the assassin of Tony Blair.
    As someone who is a Christian I can tell you the current government is the most Anti-Christian government since the Vikings we’re pillaging and murdering in Lindisfarne, and he’s at its head.

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  2. Tom Paine Avatar

    Surely in claiming a “Presbyterian conscience” he’s claiming to be a Christian? As for your final statement – as someone who isn’t a Christian – I can’t resist pointing out that Christians have always been rather good at attacking each other. He seems quite sectarian about it all, so maybe he’s being consistent in pursuing all you heretics?

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  3. Man in a Shed Avatar

    Tom – he isn’t claiming to be a Christian, but he is inviting you to make that assumption ( which in itself is deceitful ). The more he skates around that central issue the more shifty he seems.
    There’s something fundamental about who Gordon Brown really is here. Add it to the Nokia body count, how staff get treated in No 10, the McBride smear campaign, the smear campaign against Blair and the general way he rose through the darker reaches of Scottish Labour to deny the voters will and seize power in the gutless coup again Blair and you have to question if he’s on the side of the angels.
    I could be wrong, but since he brings the subject up you’d think there would be some journalist who would pursue it ? Or is only Andrew “you’ve known me for a long time” Marr allowed to interview him these days ?
    This could be the key to understanding Brown. Isn’t it amazing that no one seems to know the answer ?

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  4. pedant2007 Avatar
    pedant2007

    Bryan Appleyard said in an article he recently reproduced on his blog that Mr and Mrs Brown’s daughter was baptised before her death.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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