Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Oldies Station Leaves Air;
Aged & Wretched Raise Stink*

An English commie or something typing at the Guardian makes an observation (before flying into a verbal cloud bank w/ far too many syllables for an honest & simple man of the people such as ourself to follow, rather than flying the clear skies of "really it's mostly just ignored").
The anti-secular alarmist sees both decisions as indicative of the times, when, as Warsi put it, "signs of religion cannot be displayed or worn in government buildings; when states won't fund faith schools; and where religion is sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere".

It's hard to take seriously the idea that any of this represents a mortal threat to religion in public life. I can't help feeling that Christianity has always thrived on persecution, and it is trying just a bit too hard to portray itself as under the cosh yet again when really it's mostly just ignored.
Do not know or care what %-age of Limey bead-rattlers ignore Holy Mother Church's teaching on contraception, for example, but it sounds as if, in Britain as well as America, the religious are making a last ditch attempt to get their crummy music on the radio.

*We would imagine all those old bastards in dresses & Prada shoes smell to begin w/.

2 comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

The Church of England is too wishy-washy to be taken seriously if it advances something as outrageous as a "principled stand". As long as that's the de-facto religion the other idiots are reasonably seen as kooks.

M. Bouffant said...

Episcopal Editor:

The CofE is so wishy-washy as to be barely extant here.

There was a lot of sucking up to Ratzi at one of the entirely too many links by the co-chair of the Tories, a Mooslin for whom all this religious talk is no doubt a smoke-screen for the imposition of Sharia law in Britain, but nobody says anything because she's a Conservative.

Vatican welcomes Lady Warsi's comments on 'intolerant secularisation'
Warsi's calls for Europe to be more confident in its Christianity have made the Vatican happy, says a spokesman

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By asserting that "for centuries, Christianity in Europe has been inspiring, motivating, strengthening and improving our societies", Warsi echoes Benedict's claim that religion is an ally of freedom and an enemy of tyranny.

Warsi says the Catholic church was instrumental in "toppling communism" and "securing peace in Northern Ireland". Many Catholic schools in the UK outperform lay schools, she adds.

In the speech, Warsi will also back the Vatican's fight to allow crucifixes to be displayed in public buildings.


WHO IS THE TALIBAN NOW?