Religious Crackpot Of The Month: January 2009
January 18th, 2009Guess what Geraint Tudur recently described as
a secular attack on… Christianity; an act of betrayal by the Assembly Government.
Go on. Have a guess.
Whatever you said, I really doubt you got it right. I don’t think any rational person could, even in jest, come up with something as mindlessly imbecilic as the correct answer: Tudur was referring to the decision to allow sixth-formers to opt out of collective worship sessions.
He feels personally betrayed because the state is refusing to force anyone wanting to go to university or get a decent job to sit through his church’s propaganda. I simply cannot fathom how anyone can be so insane without becoming a serial killer. I can see how you might, if you are a total bastard, want the state to fund and mandate your proselytising. I can see how you might, if you were a bit stupid and terrifyingly right-wing, think that that was even a good thing for the state to be doing. But you surely have to be more than slightly unhinged to actually expect it to happen, don’t you?
The fact that it did happen was a throwback. An anachronism. It has been fixed, but as I’ve said many times before, once someone has something they will very, very quickly assimilate it into what they see as their fundamental human rights, even if it explicitly steps on other people’s.
Geraint Tudur is general secretary of The Union of Welsh Independent Chapels. I have no particular idea who they are, but it seems like people for some reason listen to them.
Tags for this article: Christianity , Faith schools , Geraint Tudur , Religious Crackpot of the Month
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January 20th, 2009 at 01:00
I have a friend who is a dyslexic agnostic insomniac.
He lies awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog.
(I know, off topic. That was stolen from a comment on the Daily Mail, no less. I thought you might like it.)
January 20th, 2009 at 01:05
I’ve heard that loads of times!
January 31st, 2009 at 08:39
My how easily the believers take offense. I suppose he thinks there needs to be some balance to all that science being taught in school. In this context, balance can come in the form of fantasy, science fiction, or religion…although to me, the lines become blurred.
July 2nd, 2009 at 21:55
You know what’s funny? I was reading that and thinking “wow, that’s remarkably progressive of the Welsh Assembley Government”
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shows just how far we have to go, doesn’t it? :p