I don’t think this one is going to get much more traction in the press, but it’s an interesting thesis: Tony Blair went to war in Iraq, blatantly ignoring the will of the people who marched en masse, “because God told him to”. His unshakable faith ran beneath every decision he made, a black and white world of good vs. evil.
‘Tony Blair complained in 2007 that he had been unable to talk about his faith while in office as he would have been perceived as “a nutter”.’
I wish he had.
In other news, his faith initiative in schools has been criticised by the NSS as being more likely to do harm than good. what with dividing largely uncaring children by their parents religion.
Can we start by noting that brainwashing minors in the details of sky fairies is tantamount to child abuse?
Update: the current Jesus and Mo nails it.
#1 by Michael Kingsford Gray at June 15th, 2009
Anthony is but one of the privileged few totally delusionally possessed whack-jobs who have been unconstitutionally granted unwarranted lordship over an unwilling audience.
#2 by Spooke at June 15th, 2009
I’m no fan of the imaginary friend brigade but child abuse? Come on.
#3 by f2point4 at June 15th, 2009
Oh, is that why he changed faith as soon as he left office? :-p
#4 by Evil Dave at June 30th, 2009
Yes Spooke, it’s child abuse. Consider that if I were to teach a child some ridiculous lie like “if you ever have any black friends then one day you’ll be torn apart by hideous monsters while mummy and daddy stand by and applaud, saying ‘you deserved it’”, I think that would be abusive. How does this differ from the threats of religion? Replace black with gay and I just described some forms of christism. And if you object to that on the grounds that it’s a really rare “perversion” of religion, then I think it’s also abusive to teach children a pack of lies and blind obedience when they should be learning to think critically and to weigh the evidence.