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‘Tramp’ in church was minister in disguise
Written by Lee Doyle on July 10, 2008 – 9:20 pmI am not a religious man at all. I am open about being a Atheist but respect most religions and peoples beliefs. One of my favourite bloggers (Rebellious Arab Girl) has a old post about Honour Killings in the Islam religion which seems to always get some comments every month or so. Since reading this post and following Monas blog I have changed many of my views on Islam and Arabs in General.
A lot of people think that I must be some sort of Devil Worshipper as I don’t follow the Bible, Koran or read L. Ron Hubbard’s stories. I just believe we are here, I don’t believe that some higher power has written any books or has any disciples do so. I do believe these books can offer some words of wisdom and can help people out of some hard times, but that is as far as it goes for me.
I came across this story in Todays papers which really made me smile. It shows how some people believe that if they just go to Church or your Mosques then all is forgiven and their GOD will think they are good people… But what they forget is if their GOD is real he is watching 24/7.
I do not believe in GOD… But I try my very best to be as nice to people as I can. The one thing I did learn at school was Respect, and that is something I always follow.
Members of a church congregation received a shock when a “tramp” who wandered in off the street took off his wig and hat and revealed himself as their minister.
Former police officer the Rev Derek Rigby dressed in clothes from a charity shop and rolled around where his “dog had been” in the garden as part of his disguise.
The 51-year-old said he told the congregation and John Morris, one of the senior members and a lay-preacher who was taking the Sunday service, he would be arriving 20 minutes late at the Trinity Methodist Church in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, North Wales.
But instead of the expected arrival of the minister the congregation of around 70 saw a tramp walk in and sit down in the church.
Mr Rigby, who was a police officer for 15 years before he was ordained 20 years ago, said: “I was amazed that no one recognised me. I was quite close to some of them. Sitting next to some and they still did not recognise me.”
The minister, who had not shaved for three days, then stood up and revealed who he was. The charade was linked to the theme of the service which was based around the failure of the disciples to recognise Jesus Christ on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection.
Mr Rigby, who took up the post at the church in 2005, said: “When I walked in and revealed myself they (the congregation) broke into a round of applause.”
Speaking about the demonstration, he said: “It was interesting to see the different responses. It is the unacceptable face of charity.
“I had to walk about half a mile from my house to the church otherwise people would have recognised my car.
“I was not in the porch as people arrived for the service I was slightly outside the church.
“I had to scruff the clothes up and I had syringes – used for giving my dog medicine but without the needles in so they were safe.
“I waited until Sunday school had finished as I didn’t want to scare the children.
“I was behaving drunk but I was not noisy or rolling around. I sneaked into the porch where the disabled toilets are and stole some toilet roll.
“Then I went back in to steal a decanter and glasses at which point someone ran after me and took them off me. At that point I was invited in.”
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Why am I a Atheist?
Written by Lee Doyle on January 19, 2008 – 1:30 pmWhy not? If you do not agree with me then ask yourself the same question “Why do I believe in a god”. Think about it in real terms. You (Maybe) believe that there is a being who you have never seen but you follow this beings rules even though he never wrote them or can prove he wrote them. You are taking someones view on something who you have never met or seen.
You also can not prove that this Book was even written by the people who are said to have wrote it. There is also more evidence that most of the things never even happened.
I know I am generalising here with the religion Christianity but, I would say most my religious readers are in some way linked to this religion.
I am not going to go down the road of quoting people or finding facts from the net because if you really wanted to question things you can do this yourself, but you wont.
I always get this answer thrown at me “Jesus was written about in so many history books”, well did you know that the name Jesus was one of the most common names for that time line? If you shouted that name 2 in 10 people turn around. Its like saying the name Mark or Lee was are all the same people as I am sure the names appear in many books through time and even in my time line.
Anyway, I am no Satan worshiper as I also do not believe in him, I try my hardest to do nice things to people as I sort of follow Karma (I know… I just agree with it that’s all) and try and hope nice things happen back…. Guess I am doing a bad job ay?
So do you believe? If so… why?!
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