Re: Pope's visit: aide steps aside after comparing Britain to 'third world'

On 17/09/2010 10:44, Gareth McCaughan wrote:

Once again: those who have been arguing that true Christians
will be honest, take note.

Well, at least I am more accurate than you are (I don't impugn your honesty, merely your knowledge of the real world).

I think I know what stories Ken has in mind, and guess what?
they don't sound anywhere near so proto-fascist when described
correctly.
1. There's a mayor who no longer wants there to be prayer
at the start of the council meetings he runs. Most of
the members of the council are not churchgoers (or
templegoers or mosquegoers or synagoguegoers), as it
happens.
The ancient tradition of having prayers at the start of
meetings of this particular council goes all the way back
to ... 1997.

I didn't know that Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1997, but doubtless you know best. I was also uaware that the National Secular Society has been appointed mayor of anywhere, so perhaps you need to clean the optics on whatever it is you use for peering out from the ivory tower of yours.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1271532/Thou-shalt-pray-Atheists-bid-ban-prayers-council-meetings--breach-human-rights-non-believers.html

And in case you don't like the Mail, here's the same story in the Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7675156/Atheists-launch-bid-to-outlaw-prayer-at-council-meetings.html

Of course, there may be a bolshie mayor as well, so that just goes to prove my point: atheists (plural) are acting like the pope described.

2. A supply teacher[1] was being paid to teach mathematics to
a 14-year-old girl with leukaemia. According to the girl's
parents, she repeatedly pestered the girl about religion,
even after it had been made clear to her that this was not
welcome. The parents contacted the county council and
requested that another teacher be found for their daughter.
While the council investigated the matter, the supply
teacher was suspended from duty. No one asked for her
to be sacked; she was not sacked; she is, as I understand,
now working again for the same employer doing the same job
(though of course not teaching that particular pupil).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/02/nurse-prayer-suspended
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/school-receptionist-faces-sack-over-prayer-request/

So that makes three (including your story).

God bless,
Kendall K. Down


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