The Bishop, the Donkey and the Devil
Posted on | July 24, 2006 | Comments Off
Chinese online car-sales website owner, Ling Valentine, 33, has hit back at Church of England Bishop Richard Chartres who suggested that “buying a large car is a symptom of sin”.
Bishop Chartres, who has helped form the Church of England’s policy on the environment, said there was now an “overriding imperative” to “walk more lightly upon the earth“. He said that people therefore had to make lifestyle decisions with the environmental consequences in mind.
However, flamboyant female entrepreneur Ling Valentine, who runs www.LINGsCARS.com, grew up in atheist China. She slammed the Bishop’s remarks as “stupid twaddle”. Pointing out some ironies, she claims; “The Church of England spends millions of pounds wasting energy heating large uninsulated churches. For him to condemn 4×4 cars is crazy. Every 4×4 in America seems to have a ‘Jesus loves’ bumper sticker. Historically, even Jesus’ mother, Mary, rode to Bethlehem bareback on a 4×4 donkey. Donkeys have full-time 4×4 drive and they have emitted more greenhouse gas over the centuries than any latter-day car. Maybe Bishop Chartres should condemn Joseph’s purchase of the donkey as ‘a symptom of sin’”
“If Jesus had been environmentally aware, he would have condemned the great floods that God unleashed on the earth, back when Noah was forced to deforest his back garden to build his big boat. Or was that due to global warming? Also, how many forests have been cut down to print bibles? At least in China, Mao’s little Red Book was exactly that – little. And the Chinese don’t pretend God is behind everything they do wrong.”
Valentine also claims that the missionary zealots who propogated Christianity around the world has contributed or caused the loss of civilizations. “Look at South America”, claims Ling. “The Spanish brought Christianity to the Incas, but they took smallpox, tuberculosis and ghonorrea. The Crusades in the Middle East were the forerunners of the economic and environmental disaster area being created by Israel and Hezbollah today. Religion is a by-word for death and destruction.”
The Bishop claimed; “Sin is not just a restricted list of moral mistakes. It is living a life turned in on itself where people ignore the consequences of their actions.”
According to Ling Valentine, who sells all types of cars and 4x4s from her online car site, LINGsCARS.com, religious nonsense has caused unending misery and destruction and war for over 2000 years. “The Bishop should look in a different book”, she said. “Rather than the bible, I prefer to quote from Mao Tse Tung: Every long journey begins by filling your cheap Chinese made MG Rover car with petrol”.
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