Posted: Mar 13, 2012 5:14 pm
Matthew Shute wrote:From The Mail on Sunday's ludicrous commentary about Delia Smith:Mail on Sunday wrote:The militant secularists have acquired a formidable enemy, with a longer reach and a larger audience than any archbishop.
( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... alarm.html )
WTF is a militant secularist, anyway? Is it anyone "militantly" opposed to theocratic governance: unelected bishops in the House of Lords, and laws based on religious dogma, discriminating against homosexuals and preventing a rational approach to euthanasia? And what's an "enemy of secularism"? Presumably, it's somebody who would prefer religious dogma to be imposed on everyone with the full force of the state and the law. In my view this makes Delia Smith formidably misinformed, stupid, or odious. Tony Nicklinson will doubtless be told that he has to suffer in perpetuity for the sake of the high "Christian morality" of people who, conveniently for them, will never be in his situation. We need more secularism.
It might well be someone who can't see the clear blue water between theocratic government and the presence of a handful of bishops in the Lords.