- God is making a comeback even less expected than Leonard
Cohen's. I'm Your Man, growled Len, but for many their man is upstairs:
43% of Americans are born-again Christians; fanaticism fans across the
Muslim world; a devout Catholic who fears gay rights is set to become the
European Union's justice commissioner.
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- Here, there is talk of Tony Blair converting to Catholicism,
which could render him even more madly messianic. Adding to the spiritual
lucky dip, Princess Michael of Kent says Prince William's future other
half could be Muslim. Faith is the latest designer label: witness Madonna's
"belief" in cranky, pseudo-Jewish Kabbalah.
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- So what, you might shrug. Sure, it is odd that after
2,000 years of scientific advance more, not fewer, souls seek solace, but
it is a harmless comfort in an empty, materialist world, right? Nope.
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- An adviser to George Bush states America now "creates
our own realities"; in such spirit Bush told Pat Robertson, an evangelist,
that America's casualties in Iraq would be zero; from papal infallibility
to presidential fallibility, perhaps.
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- Robertson knew better: "The Lord told me the war
was going to be a disaster." With these important folk enjoying direct
lines to God, might they not call BT to ask if there is a fault on the
line? But there is scant criticism. John Kerry talks of the fun he had
as an altar boy, and no one dares even snigger. Well, as Andrew Sullivan
writes on page 19, he does need the Catholic vote.
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- The downer with converts such as Blair and Bush is they
actually believe. Now Blair "knows" he is right on Iraq after
his prayer session with Bush. And that is dangerous.
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- If Bush wins, he will pack the Supreme Court with religious
judges. Blair takes care that new bishops are "on message" (to
him); how long before he follows his faith schools initiative with further
religious intrusion? After all, he has already allowed a "creationist"
who rejects Darwin to sponsor schools.
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- It would be wrong to hinder him if he wants to be left-footed,
(or turban-headed). Freedom of worship should be for all. But still I worry:
if church and state are divorced, ironically faith will boom. Privatise
any dead institution (BT, the Church of England) and it perks up.
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- Even Cohen, 70, has become a Zen monk, (part-time, for
when he is not busy making us glum). So who will deliver us from dogma?
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- Copyright 2004 Times Newspapers Ltd. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1325398,00.html
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- Comment
Alton Raines
4-24-04
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- Sure, God in government is a scary thing, even to most
thinking Christians. But notice the author of this piece really has a personal
beef with people of faith... period! He suggests that somehow 'science'
and 'time' should have long since vanquished the idiocy of faith (showing
his own idiocy), when every day that passes science has to take another
bow to scripture and pay homage to the mystical revelation of the ancients,
and scrap yet another "theory" on the junkheap of atheistic scientism.
He writes, "After all, he has already allowed a "creationist"
who rejects Darwin to sponsor schools." His ignorance is clearly manifest!
He can't even imagine such a thing, and yet the leading creationists are
using the exact same empirical means by which secular scientism arrives
at its own godless conclusions.
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- It's simply a matter of this writer being an mal-educated
smart-ass who is "wise in his own conceits," and will suffer
the penalty of such haughtiness. Yes, we have to weary of those in government
whose religion or faith might take us all for a ride we don't want to be
on, but you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, and that is the
overriding agenda of the secular humanist -- label all people of faith
as mentally unfit and soon we'll be rid of that nasty ole' "god"
who expects something more than base animal behavior out of human beings.
Dogma isn't the problem, and neither is Darwin. It's bigotry, in all its
forms. And this is just one of its forms. And the humanists are no better
than Nazi's when it comes to their view of Christians, Jews, Buddhists,
Hindu's, etc. They would have them all "quarantined" so that
science, which brought us the wonderous horrors of the atom bomb, can continue
on its merry course in reforming mankind in the image of a soulless, reprobate
nearest-neighbor of a slobbering, dung tossing monkey.
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