Why Do Our Leaders Disappoint ?                   23/08/2014

Grieve: 'British Christians forced to hide beliefs’

Attorney general Dominic Grieve

The minimum we ask of our leaders is that they should be intelligent, and fee from odious beliefs that could harm us. Too much of a hope. Our top Law Officer is a Christian, and by asking for special treatment of all those sharing his crackpot beliefs, he is promulgating them. Compare his Christian beliefs with other, equally bizarre convictions such as astrology, flying saucers, the harmful effects of witches, the medical efficacy of dried toad, the importance of magic, and the awful warnings of comets. As much as we work to distance ourselves from the nasty past, so powerful people work to keep the whole fantasy train in operation.

There are supposedly eighteen unelected bishops in the House of Lords, - and that in a population wherein 1.7% attend a Christian church of a Sunday. I would suggested that it is an over-loaded bias against intellectuality and for super-natural fantasy. It cannot be a good thing that every piece of legislation to further the interests of our citizens should run the gauntlet of recognisable crackpots who have an historic power to shape the laws to further their head-banger convictions.

Grieve suggests that Christians are being side lined in society and cowed into silence by ‘aggressive secularism’. In other words the Christian mob who led us through painful centuries of misery are under criticism for their crimes, by their victims.

Religion; all religions, are evil. They serve to cow and belittle the population, telling children that they are full of inherent sin, and proposing a wholly false explanation for the universe, its origins, its processes and its contents. It is not as if religion has any redeeming features; it has none. It is surprisingly free of almost any possible good. But there is one; one uniquely useful quality. When our aged and religious grandmamma is upon her deathbed, and asks for reassurance that she will go to heaven to be reunited with all her kin, one is allowed to lie, and to promise her so. That’s it. Religion’s only redeeming feature.  All the rest serves to unite religious people together such that they can recognise and act against their supposed enemies; gays, women who have abortions, liberals, scientists, geologists, educated people everywhere, multi-culturalists, atheists, democrats, young people, and those of alternative religions. And religion conducts its evil machinations with a sweet smile and a false bonhomie.

" Religion doesn't have to be violent to be 'bad'. It can be, and often is, mysogynistic, homophobic, power-hungry, hypocritical, thought-suppressing, intollerant, illiberal, mean-spirited, puritanical, anti-science, obscuratist, patriachal, and misery-inducing, all the while remaining comitted to purely peaceful forms of expression"

 - Anonymous Letter in Giles Frazer’s Column in The Guardian 22/8/2014

And so those of us who love science, and light, and intellectuality, have to continue our efforts to reduce the impact of evil cults on our legislative system. 

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