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[tree_and_leaf]

Have just been listening to "On the Ropes" on BBC R 4, with Terry Pratchett talking about his Alzheimers diagnosis, and am now feeling decidedly sniffly, not just because it's terribly sad, but because I am so filled with admiration for the way he's taking it - with humour, courage, refusal to be made helplessly miserable, and a good deal of gumption (you can tell he's Granny Weatherwax's creator).

JH: And yet you must have bad moments - dark nights of the soul.
TP: Yes, of course I do. But we all have those, anyway. And then you get up in the morning.

I'm slightly in awe of him, actually - I wish I had half his guts and hopefulness.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

You take the Anglican Church seriously. That shows moral courage of a very high order. And I do not mean this altogether in jest. If you cared a damn about commonplace views, you would have it as either a joke or a bunch of corrupt paedophiles. (The stereotype of the paedophile priest attached to the CofE long before it was stuck to the Catholics, and Alan Moore, to his disgrace, used it in the original V for Vendetta.)

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh come. When I have to worry about my church being burned down by a screaming mob (as actually happened to an acquaintance of mine who is an RC priest in rural Pakistan), then we can talk about moral courage!

a bunch of corrupt paedophiles

Curious - I thought that stereotype had just about sunk without trace,give or take the odd choirboy joke. The high camp Anglo-Catholic ("sodomites with unpleasant accents..."), yes, but that's obviously not at all the same thing.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, as I said, it was old. V for Vendetta came out in 1978, IIRC, and even then someone lambasted Moore for stereotype abuse. I guess it is one of those things that tend to recur.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

BTW, allow me to inform you that screaming mobs are common in cyberspace (cf fandom_wank and similar rabble sites). And Christians are not the least of their targets.