Behold The Man

 

I know the news cycle's shockingly fast, but do you remember the beautiful graffiti art installed in Canterbury Cathedral? Sure you do, in all its Peckham underpass (do they have those in Peckham? Ed.) splendour. 

A cry for help, perhaps, from the dying Church of England, desperate to reach out to and engage the marginalized, dispossessed and unheard people of the United Kingdom. Except white working class people on the dole, obviously, can't have those, they don't read the Guardian.

Well there is that, but here, have a look at the artist they/them zhirself, Alex Vellis:

How very fetching. And here's the Dean of the Cathedral, who lives with his "wife," who's a man, obviously:

At what point, do you think, will the chalice of divine wrath be full? I reckon we have to be close, because this is getting mighty blasphemous. God, for all His infinite love, mercy and compassion will not be mocked. To put it another way, if you go against the Holy Spirit you will be relentlessly destroyed by that same Spirit. It's an axiom.

Your Old Friend,

LSP

What Fresh Hell Is This?

 

Fresh hell? Yes, just another attempt by trendy lefty Church of England apostates to make their venerable if shrinking slice of the UK's religious equation more relevant to the unchurched masses. How? By decorating Canterbury Cathedral with a graffiti "art" exhibition. 

It's interactive, apparently. You write down questions, send them off and an, ahem, artist turns them into ersatz pseudo-pop graffiti which is then displayed on the walls and pillars of the beautiful cathedral. It looks like this:

Here's another:

Beautiful, isn't it, and so likely to draw in the crowds and pack the pews of the dismally declining denomination. I mean to say, who wouldn't be attracted to worship God in all his numinous mystery in England's foremost cathedral by graffiti posing as religious art? So much for some 2000 years of Christian aesthetics.

The genius behind this installation is Alex Vellis, poet and "curator of Jacquiline Creswell's collaboration with marginalised communities and a team of skilled artists."  How very awesome, and that's what his "art" in Canterbury cathedral's all about, per the Daily Mail:

Language is the people who speak it, and graffiti is the language of the unheard. By temporarily graffitiing the inside of Canterbury Cathedral, we join a chorus of the forgotten, the lost, and the wondrous. People who wanted to make their mark, to say 'I was here', and to have their etchings carry their voice through the centuries.

 

Wondrous? Yes indeed, wonder at the mawkish suicide of a once great part of God's Church and its desecration of England's principal cathedral. Alex Willis was organizer of the Sex Work Symposium in Canterbury in 2019. Why? Because of course he was. On topic, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral is David Montief, who lives with his boyfriend David Hamilton in a "civil partnership."

You can imagine, dear readers, what Augustine of Canterbury would make of this. Come back, Reginald Pole, we need you.

Dies Irae,

LSP