Eon
The Learned
Joined: May 03, 2008
Posts: 182
Location: Nottingham, England
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Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:44 pm |
 
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Well, who says debates can't change minds?
A very good performance by Hitchens and Fry. Unlike their opponents, they actually
made
their case, whereas that moronic Tory MP just did precisely what Fry described in his closing statement and the Archbishop just made the same bullshit assertions again, without any supporting evidence.
I have to say, the inanity of what Ann Widdecombe had to say inspired more than one facepalm on my end. She's a Tory MP and she has the audacity to say that "thou shalt not covet" is a good commandment, when coveting is the foundation of capitalism and free market economics, which the Tories have consistently been in favour of? Arguably it was Labour's continuation of Margaret Thatcher's hard right economic policies of the 1980's that led to the very economic crisis we're in right now; but, naturally, she blames it on the investment bankers, not the irresponsible deregulation of the economy that the Tories started and Labour continued. Moreover, she clearly knows nothing of history if she thinks that the youth of today are particularly disrespectful. She ought to read some contemporary accounts of Ancient Greece or Rome describing rebellious youth in
those
eras. Besides, how is "thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother" a fundamentally good principle? What if your parents are nasty people who don't deserve to be honoured? And, naturally, she failed to respond to the first three commandments, which are all about worshipping Yahweh; instead, as with all Christians who like to appeal to the ten commandments as the foundation of all morality, she's only concerned with the ones that actually are pretty obvious and wouldn't take a god for us to recognise.
Furthermore, while her quip about Jesus and the Virgin Mary was somewhat witty, it's a very poor response to the question, and she was quite disrespectful to the questioner, I might add, who had shown her undue respect as far as I'm concerned. If Jesus was sent for the sake of
all
humanity, why can only half of humanity represent him in church? It really astounds me that this is a woman--you'd think she'd know better--who converted to Catholicism because the Anglican church wasn't bigoted and oppressive enough for her.
I'm glad that idiot isn't my MP. I feel sorry for her constituents. |
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