Sebo Griffum Prevails

by William Lambert

Reverend Sebo Griffum returned to his pulpit in the First Disciplinarian Church, Rockwood Hills, Sunday after a several months' stay in Cusco spent in studying the famous Codex Obscurantus and various papyri in the collections of the ancient Janissarian Library.

During his sermon, Reverend Griffum said: "The 20th century role of hate must not be underestimated. There is, 'A time to love and a time to hate' (Ecclesiastes), and that time is today. We must learn to hate all variances from sound doctrine, making sure that we 'hate them with a perfect hatred,' as the Psalmist so beautifully expressed it. Let us seek out and utterly expose every deviation from normality, for is not normality but a synonym for morality?"

Continuing, he quoted from the Bible, "He that perverteth his ways shall be known," and said that all modern perversions must be viewed with utter hatred. Citing the place of hate down through the ages he said, "From earliest religious periods we have the records of splendid hatreds in all their glory, of pillagings and purgings, even of the noble exterminations of those varying from what is established and right. No finer rallying call is to be found in religious literature than that of the early Quintifex Major," said Reverend Griffum, "Let there be lustye hatred, in the full exercize thereof, that the glory of true religion may be established by sword and by smittings.

"The testimony of the Codex Obscurantus in denouncing 'unnatural sin' is clear. "The sacred purpose of the male and the female is generative,' and here it is significant that the Codex quotes from an even earlier authority, 'That the earth may be over-run' (Orinoco Papyrus II). We must never lag in our devotion to hating those who hold otherwise. It is our duty in the churches to see that dissenters are expelled from their jobs, insulated from civil liberties, spurned from their homes and families, and spat upon among men, as an exercize in 'religion in action' to quote from a mediaeval Swiss theologian, known to us only as John the Least.

"The position of our National Authorities in this respect, and of those reporting to us from Britain, indicate the truly religious scope of this fine 20th century movement. We must purge from the temple every trace of 'unnatural love," he said. In fact, the question has been raised among some of the deepest scholars of the day, if there is still a place for any kind of love, although the National Disciplinarian Conference cannot pass definitely on this point until the June 1955 Ecumencium, when the matter will be given place on the agenda.

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