So the ex PM of our country believes in angels, limbo, transubstantiation, etc
What an idiot.
More evidence that I am from a different planet.Originally Posted by FarSideOfTheMoon
The thing is, I understand politicians and the like who are a member of a religious faith and probably don't believe, but are stuck with it.
But to actually become a Catholic, you have to state that you agree that everything Catholics believe in is correct.
So you just have to be completely nuts....or lying.
On the news, they are wondering what he said, given he has not voted in parliament in line with church teaching. Homosexuals, abortion, etc.
Either way - someone is being a bit hypocritical here.
I think this is probably just to ease tonys conscience over his terrible mistakes like the war. catholicism offers forgiveness and if tony feels that hes right with god then his actions are forgivable in his own mind.
I really dont see why he would convert otherwise, although I know his mrs is a catholic I dont think he would become one just so he could attend mass with her.
No he already attends mass and takes communion. Fact is he has been a catholic for a long time. He is also breathtakingly hypocritical and narcissistic. He did not acknowledge his beliefs while in office because he believed it would damage his career. Not the stuff that martyrs are made of. Not in fact the stuff that decent human beings are made of. Well we knew that.
So tony was a catholic while a serving PM? Then why hide the fact? Is he ashamed of his religion? and if so I would have to agree it would be very hypocritical to announce his religion now instead of when it mattered.
I confess I overstate what I can prove. He went to mass. He took communion. People who know him have been expecting this announcement since before he left office. I think the indications are all there that he was a convert in all but name long ago. But of course he can argue he had a sudden revelation just after he left office I suppose. Cos it takes a while to go through the process, I understand......
I read somewhere earlier that he has actually told people in the past he is catholic, even though he hadn't got round to filling out his membership form.
Given you have to go through some pointless protocol to become official, he really is a total hypocrite.
But to be honest, they are welcome to him.
I find this very interesting if only because I'm heading in the opposite direction and initiating the process of formally renouncing my membership of the Catholic church.Now Bliar's a 'Mackerel Snapper' I'll have to speed things up a bit.
Last edited by The Great Bymble; 22nd December 2007 at 08:36 PM. Reason: Typo
How do you do that then, send a resignation letter to the pope by recorded delivery?
Yet another reason not to take the spineless little hypocrite seriously.
And we were so short of those, too
Not quite,but something very similar -
http://www.secularism.org.uk/debapti...a55ada5b205a09
I'm more concerned about the fact that at present I'm still counted as one of the flock under both church and civil law - that's not something that I'm prepared to accept.
Dunno if it looks good on the C.V.,though...
Last edited by The Great Bymble; 22nd December 2007 at 10:24 PM. Reason: Typo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7157409.stm
If you have a dark and godless sense of humour, as I have, some of this is pretty funny. At the centre of it, we see Blair converted to a faith to the tenets of which he seems not to subscribe. Not that that's troubling the RCC very much. Ah well, man and institution are well matched.
Over to one side, hefting a stone and flexing her throwing arm, Ann Widdecombe demands that Blair should repent of his views ( or apparent views- who can say?) on abortion and other matters, to show that he is a proper convert. Unfortunately for her, this reminds us that her own conversion seems to have been prompted not by a revelation that Henry VIII got it badly wrong, but by Widdecombe's huff over the ordination of women priests in the C of E. Integrity? Or obdurate bigotry? Well, let us leave that to her and her god.
Meanwhile, the head boy at the C of E bids Blair farewell on his " spiritual journey". A journey that takes him out of the worldwide Anglican communion, a large part of which wants to break away because it cannot abide the notion of gay clergy, especially in top jobs. The other part, instead of bidding these quaint bigots good riddance, pleads with them to stay. Abusive relationships, anyone?
Oh, mustn't forget the apt Biblical quotation. John 11: 35. With the empty intensifier in the middle.
When will a politician have the courage to come forward and admit to being a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
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