Comments on: BNP vicar "seeks asylum" http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/ Against racism and bigotry Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:01:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-385 Anonymous Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:24:29 +0000 http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-385 With West in their ranks, the BNP is indeed a strange Wako-like doomesday sect. <br/><br/>Reminds me of several American white supremacist churches led by fundamentalist Christians. <br/><br/>The BNP has indeed become a fundamentalist doomesday cult, as a previous article proved. <br/><br/>They are complete and absolute loons... With West in their ranks, the BNP is indeed a strange Wako-like doomesday sect.

Reminds me of several American white supremacist churches led by fundamentalist Christians.

The BNP has indeed become a fundamentalist doomesday cult, as a previous article proved.

They are complete and absolute loons…

]]> By: Denise G http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-383 Denise G Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:44:36 +0000 http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-383 A quick websearch leads me to believe that those who think West was "ordained" into what appears to be the entirely respectable Pentecostal Apostolic Church are barking up the wrong tree. There are any number of "Old Catholic" and "Orthodox" "churches" going by the name <i>Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church</i>, all claiming descent from the rogue Arnold Mathew. They often drop the "Holy Catholic". I think it more likely that if West was ever ordained, it was by one of these strange little "front room" churches. A quick websearch leads me to believe that those who think West was “ordained” into what appears to be the entirely respectable Pentecostal Apostolic Church are barking up the wrong tree. There are any number of “Old Catholic” and “Orthodox” “churches” going by the name Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, all claiming descent from the rogue Arnold Mathew. They often drop the “Holy Catholic”. I think it more likely that if West was ever ordained, it was by one of these strange little “front room” churches.

]]> By: Denise G http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-382 Denise G Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:05:08 +0000 http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-382 What interests me is that West has set up his own church. There is something of a history of far-right loopies with a vestment fetish doing this. They usually claim a "line of succession" from the rogue cleric Arnold Mathew, as did Roger Gleaves, the infamous paedophile and "Bishop of Medway". Gleaves ran an extreme right-wing group in the 60's, and handed his membership over to his freind John Bean of the original BNP. Google "Old Catholic Church" and you'll find hundreds of them! I keep hearing whispers, but nothing substantial, concerning some of these "churches" and their links to the far-right, paedophilia, etc. Those exposed for paedophilia usually have some youth organisation attached - volunteer ambulance, search and rescue, cadets, after-school clubs, that sort of thing. It's something I'd like to research further, so if anybody has any info, or comes across anything interesting, let me know. What interests me is that West has set up his own church. There is something of a history of far-right loopies with a vestment fetish doing this. They usually claim a “line of succession” from the rogue cleric Arnold Mathew, as did Roger Gleaves, the infamous paedophile and “Bishop of Medway”. Gleaves ran an extreme right-wing group in the 60’s, and handed his membership over to his freind John Bean of the original BNP. Google “Old Catholic Church” and you’ll find hundreds of them! I keep hearing whispers, but nothing substantial, concerning some of these “churches” and their links to the far-right, paedophilia, etc. Those exposed for paedophilia usually have some youth organisation attached – volunteer ambulance, search and rescue, cadets, after-school clubs, that sort of thing. It’s something I’d like to research further, so if anybody has any info, or comes across anything interesting, let me know.

]]> By: Dalai Lama http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-381 Dalai Lama Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:21:04 +0000 http://antiracistnetwork.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/bnp-vicar-seeks-asylum/#comment-381 Reverend my arse. Look in Crockfords - he's no more a reverend than I am. Reverend my arse. Look in Crockfords – he’s no more a reverend than I am.

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