Sundays with Mr. Ball

Revolting Peasant says, ‘I have always been a big fan of Sundays. To my mind a culture that does not take its Sabbath rest seriously has lost the plot. We need a day to digest all the hustle and bustle and busyness of the previous few days and to get a perspective on just what is going on. Some of you may question my penchant for religion, but it is organised religion, the hierarchy (literally the rule of the priests) that is the problem.
So, I have asked an old friend, Mr. John Ball, to deliver us a Sunday sermon each week.

John is of course, technically dead, having been hanged, drawn and quartered back in 1381, but he has agreed to make a come back, free of charge.
Some have called John ‘the mad priest of Kent’. He would like me to point out that he takes great exception to being called a priest. He was indeed ordained as a priest in the Roman Church, but for many years now has been a Lollard, and is a preacher, a prophet some call him, a minister who takes his authority not from the pope but from his faithfulness to the gospel.
I will leave you to Mr. Ball………………’

“Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Revolting Peasants of the World Unite!!!!!!!!!!
When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?
From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who would be bond and who would be free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage and recover liberty.
No bishop, no king!!!!!
Off with their heads!!!!
Kill them all! The lords, the priests, the lawyers, kill them all, especially the lawyers……..”

 I’m sorry to have to cut John off. I don’t want to upset the internet regulator. He gets a little tired and upset sometimes, that is John (and the regulator too).
It’s not as if John is calling for some kind of Christian jihad, even if friend Wat thinks he is.
And as for lawyers, I don’t know what he’s got against them. Okay, I’ve never met one who is both competent and honest, though they never forget to charge, they lie and they are the antithesis of goodwill, but killing them all is a bit extreme.
I will sit John down with a nice pint of ale and remind him to hate the sin but to love the sinner