A nutter, yes, but for a different reason
You know, I didn’t/don’t really have a problem with Tony Blair being a committed Christian. What bothers me is that, while Prime Minister and not hiding his devout faith very well if truth be told despite his recent protestations, he very rarely displayed any kind of Christian sentiment. Deporting people to where they might be tortured. Turning a blind eye to extraordinary rendition. Cluster munitions. Depleted uranium. Civilian deaths. And on and on.
It’s not the fact that he’s a Christian that makes him a nutter. It’s the fact that he think his actions are compatible with Christian doctrine that puts his sanity in doubt.
Posted on December 17th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
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At least he will be in confession till the heat death of the universe.
Knowing Blair, he’ll convert to Catholicism, take advantage of the Plenary Indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday and thus cunningly sidestep the whole issue.
One can only hope that Buddha was right, and Blair will be paying off bad karma for a significant number of lifetimes.
This should come in very handy then, if indulgences are the ticket.
Indeed. For a truly entertaining illustration of why indulgences (especially plenary indulgences) are not a good thing, you could do worse than sit down and watch Kevin Smith’s Dogma
BBC: “Indulgences became infamous in the 16th century for being sold rather than earned, helping, historians say, trigger the Protestant reformation.”
Time to dust off that copy of Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale (which, come to think of it, makes perfect sense in the light of Labour party’s funding scandals, let alone Blair’s conversion)
[...] I’ve said before that our erstwhile prime minister kept his Christianity almost miraculously well hidden during his time in office. It’s a wonder the military aren’t now begging Blair to consult on the design of the next generation of battlefield camouflage. [...]