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Chris, what makes you think Blair is intelligent? Cunning, maybe, like most politicians, though that can backfire, as it did on Tony. Or is it his middle-class English accent? The royals have even plummier accents, and they're fookin' eejits. This quote is just further evidence of Blair's vapidity.
"...faith should be restored "to its rightful place, as the guide to our world and its future." Yup. Cuz it's working so well for the Iranians, the Israelis, the Indians, the Tibetans. And the Nazi Pope. Let's not forget him. Oh, and I hear Putin is a believer now, too.
Oh, yeah, and all those cracker *ssh*les in the South & Midwest in this country. Remarkably moral & intelligent people, living admirable lives, all of them.
Is Tony running for Archbishop of Canterbury, now? Or is he soliciting contributions for his own crystal cathedral, someplace warm & dry? Hey, Tony, thanks for backing up Dubya on the phony casus belli! 100,000+ dead Iraqi's thank you, too! You'd better HOPE there's no God, Sonny Jim.
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If I want religious instruction/information, I know just where to go. I don't need to hear it from my senator, governor, or President, kwim?
For chrissakes. : (/
If I were you, I wouldn't run too far with this theory.
But it doesn't need government telling it that.
And as far as calling religion and faith in God mythology, that's absurd. There is no 'rational' way to explain our presence and the earth's creation and development. And the existence of a higher being does not rule out science; it makes science possible.
The true mythology is in trying to define infinite terms within finite boundaries.
Older_Wiser; try this. Tell me what formed man. Then tell me what formed the earth. Then tell me what formed the former's former. Our finite minds can't do it!
Saying gov't has no place in forcing religion is not the same as saying religion has no place.
And the existence of a higher being does not preclude natural selection and evolution.
Fear of our own mortality is no reason to deny God.
Religion, has no place and invisible friends are for kids.
We are always in a process of discovery of nature's mutable workings.
(P.S. The earth is no longer flat...that was disproved hundreds of years ago, along with other myths science has debunked over the centuries, and women are responsible for the presence of other human beings, not the stork--or "god.". Women should always control their own bodies because of that reason, not because of what men may or may not like couched in religious terminology.)
The 9/11 terrorists were "people of faith" and isn't that comforting? Allah akbar!
from two years ago in my tribute to sans culotte
http://tofubo.blogspot.com/2007/07/sans-culotte...
...on the international front, blair went from co-initiating an illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign middle-eastern nation to being the front man on middle-east peace talks (talk about boltonizing your chances at successfully implementing stability and good-will)...
anyone know how'd those talks go ??
I'll pass on these recommendations Tony. Of course, if religion is restored "to its rightful place", I may not have that right much longer...
That what I think of Tony the Poodle.
Humanism works for everyone.
Little wonder that he & ol' Tony are so chummy.
The Nordic countries, the least religious in the world, are the most stable and prosperous. The rest of the world needs to follow their lead.
"Poor in spirit" and "mean in ambition" defines Bush and Blair perfectly, and they were/are both stuffed to the gills with arrogant, self-righteous religious delusions.
Bliar, take you child-raping organized crime syndicate headed by a former Hitler Youth 'religion' and cram it. I don't take morality lectures from war criminals.
As for Blair, I'd LOVE to see him deliver that homily to a Baghdad audience.
To paraphrase Henry II, "Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest!”
The only difference is Tone has to bone Cherie (shiver) . . . no wonder he's turned to Gawd.
Alas, I think our guy laps this shit up even though its all part of the same old rightist culture war master baiting.
As for Mr. Blair, I am presuming that since he has found religion he will now give away all but the most meagre portion of his wealth (see NT, something about being rich and getting into Heaven)?
I wasn't going to hold my breath...
And he does.
I totally lost respect for him after hearing that open-mic (accidental) where he begged Bush to let him go to (syria?) a mideast country to be an advance man, and Bush dismissed him (of course, arrogant as hell) like the lapdog he was and is.
He's also responsibly for the Iraq war, to hell with him.