Today's word association football

... a play on Python's mention of association in a skit

For non-Brits, word association is one thing but to then say “football”, as in Association Football … never mind.

This started today for me with DAD’s French report at NOWP (see menu above):

800 years ago there were many hundreds of people burned alive when the Catholic Church disposed of the Cathar Christians.

… which had me checking out the Cathars:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism

The doors of the church of St Mary Magdalene were broken down and the refugees dragged out and slaughtered. Reportedly, at least 7,000 men, women and children were killed there by Catholic forces. Elsewhere in the town, many more thousands were mutilated and killed. Prisoners were blinded, dragged behind horses, and used for target practice.^[95]

Pardon me for a certain scepticism here but when your boss, in this case the Pope, tells the world he controls to go out and “do your worst”, and it is not just shooting people but demonic barbarism, then I start to ask myself who exactly is this head honcho? Ditto with Welby and the ruination of the C of E … which team does he play for then? And the American mega-church honchos in their Rollses and Mercs?

Is it any wonder Don McLean wrote: “Do you have faith in God Above, if the Bible tells you so?” … which is quite disingenuous and inverted, as it is human interpretation of (NT here) a code of living, also about resurrection and redemption for wrong … not having carte blanche to go out and gouge out a baby’s eyes … that’s Palpatine stuff … that clearly stems from t’other side.

So I explored Mr. McLean and it’s a sorry tale of an abused childhood and strange associations … in no particular order:

McLean’s divorce cited abuse, emotional and physical but one special aspect cited was that he ran the family as a cult.

Taken together, they do influence what one thinks of that line in American Pie … if the Bible tells you so. It tells you you can do all these fiendish things, does it, with no repercussions? No remorse, no redemption?

The Ruby Tuesday reference then brings in Lennon and McCartney, the Stones, also Terry Melcher, the Beach Boys, esp. Dennis Wilson, Laurel Canyon, the Beat generation, Topanga Canyon, Zapper’s father, many dropouts’ fathers in the CIA and similar …

… yes indeed … the day the music died. Innocence replaced by what McLean and many others were into … Dylan, Zeppelin, Seeger, Baez … it goes on and on. By 1969, along with the Pill, it was pretty clear which side was running the kids (Woodstock).