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Who represented the true Church? Canon R. A. Lowe claimed to; the Wizard said he was God’s prophet, and the little lady with the violin piped that neither of them had got it right. The Wizard was a spoilt petulant little boy who stood outside the church and threw stones at it, Canon Lowe told a crowd of hundreds in Cathedral

Square yesterday. He was too scared to join the team and improve it from the inside. “I am God’s representative in Christchurch,” the prophet replied. God was not a woman. Women who were against God called him a male chauvinist pig. The Wizard was only against women who were against God. However, women were sovereign. They were

sovereign when they knew their place. The Queen was sovereign because she did what Prince Philip told her to. As God’s representative In Christchurch what did he plan to do for Easter? Canon Lowe asked him. He had not decided yet, the Wizard replied. This led to an exchange on the Resurrection, and Hell. Jesus did not rise from the dead, said the

Wizard. He was redeemed from disgrace. Jesus did rise from the dead, said Canon Lowe, but there was no such place as Hell—a fiery pit reserved for unrepentant sinners, the Devil, and his angels. “Where was Satan going to then?” asked the little lady with the violin. That was a silly question, said Canon Lowe.