Ukraine Dispatch 43: TODAY IS A VERY DARK DAY FOR UKRAINE
Ukraine Dispatch 43
TODAY IS A VERY DARK DAY FOR UKRAINE
Sunday 10 March 2024
Very late last night, I flicked on the BBC News 24 to catch the headlines. These days I do not bother watching and listening, instead I read the ticker-tape headlines that rotate at the foot of the screen. That is all I need, to grasp where I stand in this vicious world of 2024.
A pointless headline flashed, announcing something to do with the world of sport, and that had the effect of already reaching to switch channels. Then another headline blared out - yes, blared out! I use that adjective deliberately.
THE POPE: UKRAINE SHOULD ACCEPT THAT IT HAS BEEN DEFEATED AND NEGOTIATE.
I understand the sentiment. But the detestation in me of all things religious - Christianity, Judiasm, Islam - what we all pompously refer to as the three great monotheistic faiths, was as ice is to water.
Abba Father has indeed done well. He has donned the cloak of that begotten pope that saw no reason to criticize or castigate, repudiate or denounce the Nazis during their reign of terror 1933-1945. And when the Holocaust was at its most depraved and bestial, the man remained silent.
What Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, has done this weekend is to stab in the back 37,555,366 Ukrainian Citizens.
Who needs an enemy when you think you have a friend in such a man?
His stench reviles me and touches every denomination of defunct christianity, judaism and islam.
10 March 2024
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© 2024 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
