Baronness Warsi, co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, is worried about Christianity. Despite being a muslim, the Baronness has taken it upon herself to start lecturing the peoples of Europe about the extent to which Christainity is, in her belief, being marginalised, side-lined and downgraded in our societies. She blames this on a rampant surge in 'militant secularistion'.
Is she totally bonkers ? Does she not understand that amongst educated and developed people, religion has an inevitably decreasing value and following ? One of the major problems in the world today is militant religion, not militant secularism; it is mad muslims who have tried to blow things up in recent years, not mad atheists. It is ultra-orthodox jewry that has been behind the appalling treatment of the Palestinian arabs, not radical agnostics, and it's Shia muslims who've been fighting Sunni muslims in assorted places without any help from any secularists.
Religion should be practised at home or in church and not in the overtly public sphere. Religion has no place in government nor in law-making, and politicians, such as the Baronness, should avoid discussing religion like the plague. In the modern world in which we have been able to debunk most, if not all, of the old myths and legends, secularism is the only sensible option. If people want to believe in one or more gods, that's up to them, but such beliefs should have no place in the civil affairs of nations.
Baronness Warsi is so wrong, it's shocking. That she holds a senior position in our Government is terrifying.
ps. It seems that Cameron is all in favour of this nonsense as well - is there any hope for the sane amongst us ?
ps. It seems that Cameron is all in favour of this nonsense as well - is there any hope for the sane amongst us ?
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