Gone With The Wind

 Dear Fellow South Africans 

I thought I had seen everything. In South Africa, that's a lot.

Then I saw this:

 'Limpopo pastor farts on congregation to heal them with ’God’s power’

Self-styled pastor Christ Penelope, who founded Seven Fold Holy Spirit Ministries, reportedly farts on his congregants as a healing process that cures all spiritual and physical problems.'

This guy captured my imagination as dramatically as some are alleged to have captured the state. He so completely typifies the bad joke that we have become. Schuster, at his juvenile, lavatorial worst, could not eclipse this.

We've had men of similar cloth feeding their congregants snakes, grass, petrol and heaps of horse dung. The congregants gobble it all up. Our politicians are not to be outdone. The voters gobble it all up. Some worthies have been threatening to spill the beans about their comrades for some time. We all know what beans do. 

This is South Africa. Anything goes, and judging by daily reports of plunder and fraud, everything goes. So why not a gas-generating snake oil salesman? With a 'congregation' hanging on to his every... It's not that different to our political milieu. Try reading some of their pearls of wisdom out loud. 

An important question: how does the gentleman store up 

enough gas to serve the entire congregation? The answer could be of value to science. Anyone who solves that mystery, please share.

Yours in utter bewilderment.

Richard