Reverend Tim Hewes. Source Euronews, fair use, low resolution image to identify the subject.

XR Priest Sews His Lips Together to Protest Murdoch and the Climate Crisis

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Climate protests in Britain have taken a sickening turn, with a member of Christian Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion mutilating himself in public to draw attention to his views on Rupert Murdoch and the alleged climate crisis.

Priest sews his mouth shut over ‘muting of climate science by Murdoch media’

By Maeve Campbell  
Updated: 03/08/2021

A priest has sewn his lips together to protest against the “suppression” of climate science in Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets.

Reverend Tim Hewes, 71, carried out the symbolic act outside News UK’s office in Central London yesterday. It’s home to the UK arm of Murdoch’s global news empire, News Corps.

In a video released on YouTube, Hewes calls Murdoch a “climate change denier, dissembler and delayer” and says the media mogul has influence over governments which has led to a lack of meaningful action on the climate crisis.

Alongside Hewes, a Church of England priest in the Diocese of Oxford and a former dentist, was Reverend Mark Coleman, 62. Coleman took a letter into the building addressed to the Environment Editor at The Times newspaper, asking him to meet and discuss the situation.

Who is behind the protest?

The Reverend is part of Christian Climate Action, a branch of the climate movement Extinction Rebellion.

Read more: https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/08/03/priest-sews-his-mouth-shut-over-muting-of-climate-science-by-mainstream-media

What can I say – I think most of us wish the Anglican Church would focus on more immediate problems.

The following is the youtube video of the protest, do not watch the video or click the read more link above unless you have a strong stomach. You will see graphic photos and videos of Reverend Tim Hewes’ act of self mutilation.

I was in two minds whether to cover this story. There is a legitimate concern that publicity is what the perpetrator of this gross act of self mutilation wants, and I’m helping to supply that publicity. More misguided attention seekers might follow his example.

But I think it is important to hilight the true state of mind of the most extreme climate activists in Britain. What will their next move will be, when self mutilation fails to deliver the outcome they want? I do not want to be anywhere near the action when we all learn the answer to that question.

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August 16, 2021 6:17 am

This priest is no Christian and is slandering Christianity in his actions.

If he were a Christian he would believe that climate change will not bring an end to mankind. Jesus said that life will be going on normally when he returns: people will be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, working in the fields an grinding wheat, buying and selling, planting and building.

If he were a Christian he would believe the teaching of Christ about the sovereign Creator, the God of providence:
he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Rod Evans
August 16, 2021 6:33 am

Clearly a sad example of someone easily influenced by mass hysteria doing something pointless and painful to himself for no practical benefit or purpose.
He sounds and acts like a perfect example of a climate alarmist.
Such a pity these easily led individuals, manage to collect together under the XR banner and prevent sensible people doing sensible things for the benefit of all.
Hey ho, another day, another dullard….

AGW is Not Science
August 16, 2021 6:59 am

Now if we could just get everyone pushing the “climate crisis” bullshit to do the same thing, and also abstain from any written communications, the world would be a better place!

patrick healy
August 16, 2021 7:16 am

Sorry, when I read the headline I thought this cannot be a real Priest. Phew! then I saw it was one of those Protestant types. Thank God for that, but with my Marxist pope anything is possible.

AGW is Not Science
August 16, 2021 7:24 am

Would be great to do an “interview” with this idiot – you could just fill in all of his “responses” with whatever you like.

“So, what have you got to say for yourself?”

“MMMMmm”

“I see, you say you’re realized that the “climate crisis” is pure nonsense, so you’ve sewn your mouth shut to prevent yourself from spilling the beans.”

ResourceGuy
August 16, 2021 7:29 am

Because self immolation is fossil fuel intensive.

John Bell
August 16, 2021 8:11 am

I thought the clergy were supposed to be concerned with what goes on in heaven not on earth.

Olen
August 16, 2021 8:52 am

My wife put it in a nutshell: He’s crazy.

The good news is he only hurt himself. The bad news is he did it for no good reason. He cannot perform his duties with his mouth shut.

Scissors anyone!

Clyde Spencer
August 16, 2021 9:04 am

Lest there be any question about the rationality of alarmists, this behavior settles it. It is about belief and not about science.

Tim Spence
August 16, 2021 9:32 am

More evidence that the propaganda dosage is set too high.

J. C.
August 16, 2021 9:42 am

What a tool.

Michael
August 16, 2021 10:20 am

Lunacy at its most perverse. That said, I’d not be saddened one bit if all of XR sewed their orifices shut. That would have a much more profound effect on the environment than anything else they’ve concocted.

OK S.
August 16, 2021 10:23 am

On my browser (Brave) the video says it is “age-restricted.” Just how immature do you have to be to watch this stuff?

goracle
August 16, 2021 10:26 am

As a follower of Christ, I’m disgusted by this “priest”. I dont live in the UK so I dont know what’s broadcast there, but if BBC broadcasts are any indication, this idiot, who makes a mockery of God, should be speaking out at the supression of climate science by the BBC and practically every other “news” agency…. too bad he can no longer speak. Like the movie Eyes Wide Shut, so is his mouth. He needs to open his eyes first though so he can see before making an idiot of himself on youtube.

n.n
August 16, 2021 10:34 am

Catastrophic Anthropogenic Sociopolitical Climate Change, really.

He could self-identify as the female sex, feminine gender would do, and plan a child to appease the gods of social progress. Well, maybe not. As everyone knows that Some, Select Baby Lives Matter (BLM), it is less appreciated that Some, Select Female… Feminine Lives Matter in equitable and inclusive exchange.

Rich T.
August 16, 2021 2:38 pm

If they all did it we wouldn’t have to hear from them again. Being XR take it all the way.

Fin.
August 16, 2021 3:19 pm

The eyes have it. Dull, beta boy and ignorant.

niceguy
August 16, 2021 6:33 pm

When we said “liberalism is a mental disease”, we meant it.
It MUST be in the DSM.

Except, faith in the DSM, as the Holy Grail of mental diagnostic, is yet another mental disease.
(Or maybe, the very same disease.)

Michael S. Kelly
August 16, 2021 9:10 pm

Thank you for blurring out that picture.

Mack
August 17, 2021 1:17 am

Why didn’t this loon do it professionally and splint his teeth together…. nooo …just wanted to create a spectacle. Haven’t seen the gory pictures but it would have quite easy for him to numb up his lips with a few injections inside the mouth, then impress everybody with his suture skills. No injections… and it would have been extremely painful and blood everywhere….though that wouldn’t faze the fully blown nutter.

Mack
Reply to  Mack
August 17, 2021 1:31 am

Just seen the video… and yes … the guy had “prepared” with anaethetised lips before the spectacle. The amount of blood (not a lot) confirms that.

H.R.
Reply to  Mack
August 17, 2021 5:02 am

Wait up, Mack. I’ve seen the young ones with triple (and more) lip, ear, and nose piercings than the few sutures this guy poked through his lips.

I’m thinking that he’s a fail with this stunt because the serious piercers won’t be listening to his message. They are probably thinking, “That’s kind of cool, but what a piker!”

Sara
August 17, 2021 4:40 am

Avidly seeking attention like that is a mental issue. You can make/place your arguments in a public setting without doing something so utterly loony.

After all, Martin Luther simply wrote up his 95 Theses and nailed them to the doors of various churches in Wittenburg, to make a specific point. He did not act like a Compleat Idiot the way this loon has acted.

What’s next with these marones?

D Cage
August 17, 2021 4:44 am

Do you think we can persuade the rest of the climate activists to do the same for a month or two?

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  D Cage
August 17, 2021 8:52 pm

Why just a month or two? I vote for a year or two — or longer!

August 17, 2021 10:20 am

Meehh. A true believer will douse him/his/her/itself in gasoline and light a match.

far2right
August 17, 2021 1:20 pm

Great to know he empathizes with climate realists who are continually censored by Big Tech and Big Media.

That is what he meant, right?

navy bob
August 17, 2021 2:50 pm

How did he trash Murdoch on YouTube if his lips are sewn together? Sign language?