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There are religionists
and religionists, as we often see on our
blog,
Pink Triangle. Some get on with
practising their beliefs, do good works,
don’t try to interfere with other folk’s
private lives and are generally nice people.
And then there are the others. Andy Armitage
looks at the others.
I know we shouldn’t
give them that cliché, the oxygen of
publicity, but it’s hard to resist
sometimes. I’m thinking of the nutters.
I mean religious nutters.
Not just people who happen to be religious,
but nutcases, crackpots, seriously worrying,
disturbing, creepy people.
And I’m thinking in
particular of two related organisations –
partners in malice – Christian
Concern for Our Nation (CCFON) and the
Christian Legal Centre (CLC). They’ve both
had their share of posts on our blog,
Pink Triangle.
In January, the CLC were
plugging a course. OK, religious courses
for religious people – so far, so bad. It’s
up to them what they do with their money
(although you can’t help thinking of the
perennial Christian appeal to give to the
poor and needy). This course, though, was
promising the prize of the knowledge of
“vital issues such as life, liberty
and the family”.
No poofters!
“But there’s a contradiction in there
somewhere,”
we said.
“To Right-wing Christians such as
the bunch who are advertising a residential
weekend course, how can ‘the family’ and
‘liberty’ be meant to live side by side –
not just in one sentence, but in reality?
“Because ‘the family’ to the likes of
the Christian Legal Centre – which is urging
people to join this course in late March in
Oxford, UK – is man, woman and some kids,
and definitely no poofters (to quote
an old Monty Python sketch).”
This is what we quoted
them as offering:
The inaugural
“Wilberforce Academy”
takes place March 21st to 26th 2010 and
we are asking all students and young
professionals who have a passion for
defending and proclaiming the Truth to
consider applying. For one week you will
be taught by some of the world’s leading
thinkers on vital issues such as life,
liberty and the family. You will learn
how to make a difference to a society
which has turned away from God. You will
meet like-minded people from across the
country that share Christian conviction
and the desire to serve God’s Kingdom.
In short, you will learn how to become a
generation of men and women who
“Passionately Demonstrate Truth”.
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Prayer alert! |
Not quite sure why
“Wilberforce Academy”
was in quote marks (doesn’t it actually
exist?) or why
“Passionately Demonstrate Truth”
has capitalised initials, but there’s no
accounting for these people when it comes to
proclaiming their delusions.
The other organisation,
CCFON, managed to prove that God is a
homophobic bigot – or that there’s no God.
“Prayer
alert”
– creepy!
PT
reported in January that CCFON had
issued a
“prayer alert”
(is this red, yellow, blue . . .?) to ask
God to intervene in a House of Lords debate.
God either made the
members of our upper chamber accept some
amendments to the Equality Bill, or Their
Lordships just did it, anyway, without God’s
encouragement.
The amendments, from a
rabid homophobe called Baroness O’Cathain –
which robbed the Bill of some of its
equality provisions in the field of
employment law – were duly accepted. But we
know now who did intervene – not in
the vote itself but afterwards. You see, the
government could have fought these
amendments and insisted that its original
Bill go through, but, lacking balls, backed
down, because Pope Ratzinger had asked it
to, as you can see from ou r
“No Vat” article.
Fundamental grovelling
Ratzinger is coming to
the UK in September, at huge expense, we
suspect, to the taxpayer, and, instead of
telling him to go unfrock himself, the
“equalities”
minister (yes, the quote marks are
deliberate), Harriet Harman, was quite happy
to say,
“But of course, Herr Ratzinger
[curtseying], we’ll screw equality for gay
people, Herr Ratzinger, because you say so,
Herr Ratzinger [touching forelock], because
your visit here, Herr Ratzinger [lying
prostrate and licking shoe], is more
important [moving head towards papal
fundament] than human dignity, Herr
Ratzzfffzzffepppff
– sorry, Your Holiness, my tongue was up
your holy hole.”
And the Lords vote was
all down to God’s answering the prayers that
CCFON had called for. But of course it was.
What they don’t say –
what they never say – is that he’s a crappy
God when things don’t go their way.
However, since the entire faith system –
certainly the metaphysics of it – is based
on illogical thinking, anyway, it’s not
really surprising.
Croissants from heaven
As for prayer alerts,
what could sound creepier, except perhaps a
prayer breakfast such as those that happen
in the White House from time to time?
“Give us, this day, our daily
croissant.”
“Please pray”,
said the
“prayer alert”
for God to crap on equality,
“that this outrageous attempt by the
Government to intrude into how Churches
operate will be defeated.”
In hoping that their invisible friend would
ensure that the amendments be accepted
(which they were, of course, in the end)
they asked prayer-alertees to pray
“that God will have mercy on this
country and spare us from this terrible
piece of legislation”.
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Andrea
Minichiello
Williams – frightening |
When God did intervene,
they were ready to crow about how freedoms
and equality have been trampled on:
We at CCFON are
delighted with the result and are
thankful to all of you for your prayers
and action in writing to peers and
signing the petition. We are also
thankful for the many Peers who
supported Baroness O’Cathain’s
amendments and spoke in favour of
religious freedom throughout the debate.
And the director of CCFON,
the eerie, baleful Andrea
Minichiello
Williams (nice name – pity it’s wasted on a
prat), had this to say:
“This
is a great day for religious liberty in the
UK. We are thankful that the law has not
been changed and the freedom of churches to
control their own affairs has not been
restricted any further. The results show
what can happen when Christians pray and
take action. Let us be encouraged that even
in an increasingly secular society, the
voice of the Church can still be heard.”
Yeah, right.
So we’ll wait and see
what happens after the next
“prayer alert”.
Somehow, I don’t think they’ll accept that
they were wrong if God doesn’t come to their
aid – as has happened on occasions when
their prayers haven’t been answered. And
yet, when that happens, they must be
wrong if God is always right.
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