Blair’s Catholicism: The practical upshot
Blair’s biographer Anthony Seldon has written tenderly of ‘Blair’s innate Catholicism‘.
Now forgive me, and it’s just possible that I’m unique amongst Catholics on this, but I have never ever regarded my Catholicism as an inherent quality. Rather, the faith was forced into me by various teachers and priests via the good offices of fear and intimidation. Catholics are the foie gras geese of world religion.
As to the question of Blair’s faith, they say God moves in mysterious ways but in the matter of Tony Blair and the application of his ‘innate Catholicism’ to geopolitics, Our Lord was dancing the Watusi to Rachmaninov while wearing a purple tutu and howling like a gibbon.
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.
Imagine if you could shield a stealth bomber using his ‘innate Catholicism’. A fleet of these invisible aircraft could make our nation great once more. The application and implications of this technology are beyond the dreams of us all.
Britain, let us harness Blair’s Catholicism for the greater good of our country!
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 at 7:20 pm
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His confession could go on for some time I pity the other bloke and how will he atone for thousands of dead Iraqis?
Fear, initimidation and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
/coat
“Innate Catholicism”? Only a convert could claim such a concept. As a Catholic kid indoctrinated from an early age, who spent a miserable time being brainwashed by Penguins whilst all my friends were honing their football skills down the park, all I can such is “Bollocks!”
Personally I put Blair’s conversion down to another bout of arse covering. It can’t be out of any true feelings of guilt or contrition, else the sap would have topped himself years ago. No, Blair is simply hedging his bets on this one.
Wasn’t it Tony Blair who brought to us that evocative aspiration of “joined-up government” during his time as strong leader?
However, as Isaiah Berlin reminded us, Archilochus wrote:
“The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
http://www.kheper.net/topics/typology/Fox_and_Hedgehog.html
Clive is dead on with his assertion “its another bout of arse covering”. And I love your aphorism “Catholics are the foie gras geese of world religion.”
Christopher Hitchens: “You could say [George Orwell] was a protestant atheist and a protestant socialist too because he identifies with the great tradition of radicalism in England.”
http://newhumanist.org.uk/529
How can we tell the difference between a protestant atheist and a Catholic atheist?
“The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has described a rise in ‘fundamentalism’ as one of the great problems facing the world. He focused on what he described as ‘atheistic fundamentalism’. . .”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7156783.stm
Do protestant atheists really count as fundamentalists?
I’ve always felt that you don’t really understand anything if you weren’t brought up a Roman Catholic, though this is much in the sense of Kevin Bacon’s parting shot to Kevin Costner in JFK…
i dont really see the difference between a sanctimonious warmongering anglican and a sanctimonious warmongering catholic
Well, Mr Greenwell, that’s ’cause you’ve never been….
You know when Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran et al. blow that piece of European/USA guilt conscience shit out of the occupied territories, he’ll convert to Islam.
Yeah right………
“Senior English Catholics yesterday welcomed the conversion of Tony Blair to Catholicism, as church attendance figures appeared to show that their church is now attracting more Sunday worshippers than the Church of England.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2232050,00.html
It’s encouraging to see the Catholic Church applying innovative techniques in spin and marketing after the many years of downbeat headlines:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1917451.stm
A reduced sentence in recognition of an early guilty plea, right?