I'm pretty tired of the way that Hipsters, Occupiers and Anarchists have commandeered Guy Fawkes for themselves. I guess I blame the movie V for Vendetta for this, and it's understandable. After all, Natalie Portman is considered kinda cool, she's a gifted actress, and she's nice to look at. But still, he doesn't belong to them.
He belongs to Catholics, because he was one of us. In fact, Guy Fawkes night is marked by the quaint and picturesque custom of burning the Pope in effigy and screaming out about bad Catholics are.
Look at history. Fawkes was a recusant--a Catholic who wouldn't decide that the king was the rightful head of the Church,enter into schism, fall into heresy and end up simulating sacraments. Laboring under ruinous fines, the threat of imprisonment and the risk of execution, he fought back. Too bad that he chose to do so in a way that can only be regarded as sinful, and that he picked such undependable co conspirators. Least we get a little too far from reality we need to remember that Fawkes died, not as a martyr, but as a convicted criminal and failed mass murderer.
Yet he has become an instantly recognizable symbol of resistance to an over reaching government, and we need to claim him back from the dung-brained poltroons who have co-opted us, especially now as we have Chief Executive who feels he has the authority, right and power to dictate to the Church how she lives out her beliefs. Perhaps if we were to make his name more connected to the Catholic Resistance, the government would take us more seriously--realize that we have beliefs we will not compromise to make our wana-be-king happy.
I've started growing a Guy Fawkes Beard, just to be obnoxious, and to make them wonder. I think it looks stupid, and it doesn't fit my face, but heck, nobody wants to date me anyway so what do I have to lose.
He belongs to Catholics, because he was one of us. In fact, Guy Fawkes night is marked by the quaint and picturesque custom of burning the Pope in effigy and screaming out about bad Catholics are.
Look at history. Fawkes was a recusant--a Catholic who wouldn't decide that the king was the rightful head of the Church,enter into schism, fall into heresy and end up simulating sacraments. Laboring under ruinous fines, the threat of imprisonment and the risk of execution, he fought back. Too bad that he chose to do so in a way that can only be regarded as sinful, and that he picked such undependable co conspirators. Least we get a little too far from reality we need to remember that Fawkes died, not as a martyr, but as a convicted criminal and failed mass murderer.
Yet he has become an instantly recognizable symbol of resistance to an over reaching government, and we need to claim him back from the dung-brained poltroons who have co-opted us, especially now as we have Chief Executive who feels he has the authority, right and power to dictate to the Church how she lives out her beliefs. Perhaps if we were to make his name more connected to the Catholic Resistance, the government would take us more seriously--realize that we have beliefs we will not compromise to make our wana-be-king happy.
I've started growing a Guy Fawkes Beard, just to be obnoxious, and to make them wonder. I think it looks stupid, and it doesn't fit my face, but heck, nobody wants to date me anyway so what do I have to lose.
1 comment:
Thank you for pointing out the "ridiculist" mask.
Once I found out what the 'mask' was I was insulted that 'they' choose to use a 'Catholic' that way.
Poor Guy, I should remember his poor soul in a few prayers.
My wedding album is fraught with images of my male in-laws wearing those 'goatees' that became popular in the mid ninties. I hate to tell you how much I paid for a photographer to photograph those goatees.
At least you're growing that beard for a good reason.
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