Kenneth Zammit Tabona was at his pontifical worst when he remarked (November 9) that God “must also have given up making much sense of his official representatives on earth”. He went on to give the strongest impression that while these have been making a hash of things, people were well-advised to listen carefully to what he has to say on sexual morality, marriage, divorce, same-sex marriage and abortion. As if that were not enough, he urged our politicians to adopt as their mentor none other than José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Prime Minister of Spain.
Given the paucity of thought that peppered the dysfunctional argument Mr Zammit Tabona presented to his readers, I have the not altogether strange feeling that God may well take His chances on the side of “His official representatives on earth” rather than on Mr Zapatero’s.
And if you wish to wield the strongest argument against divorce, you would do well to go along with Mr Zammit Tabona’s muddled assertion that “the introduction of divorce, in fact, is not going to have one iota of effect on the institution of marriage whether religious or civil for, as time goes on, and life becomes more complicated and more expensive, there will be an increasing number of people who will opt to stay single and women who will determine who and when they should sleep with a man with the object of carrying his baby without the shackles of a marriage to curtail the career they have fought tooth and nail to achieve”.
Mr Zammit Tabona is fond of declaring that from this particular stable, the horse has bolted. To anybody with a modicum of interest in the wild direction that horse is taking, one can do no better than read his piece, which he called Life, Love And A Bit Of Humour. One will discover none of the third, little, in any serious way, of the second and the first a jumble of what we must assume is his brave new world.
He ends his mishmash by going Beatlish on us by writing that all we need is love for without it, “as St Paul says”, everything else is completely useless and futile. True, but perhaps he should read St Paul more closely, for if, as Mr Zammit Tabona thinks, “attitudes are changing so rapidly (today) that both state and Church seem to be living on Cloud Cuckooland”, he should find out what attitudes St Paul faced 2,000 years ago and how he evangelised them, not with the feely-touchy-dovey love our writer seems to have in mind but one that called for sacrifices and excluded outright everything Mr Zammit Tabona flaunted as the new morality, one that goes against the light of the words of the Word. The official representatives of the Church are with the real St Paul.