FAO All atheists. Time to celebrate?

[Zacs-Master]

It would seem that you are getting somewhere
http://www.telegraph....warns-Lord-Carey.html

[rojash]

Total nonsense.

[sandyRoe]

Is the fact that people of faith are being vilified any reason for celebration?

[Zacs-Master]

I don't know Sandy, depends on your POV, hence the question mark.

[jomifl]

What goes around comes around...I don't think there is anything praiseworthy or much to be gained by vilifying anyone. We can do what we can too illuminate the damp dark corners of ignorance and superstition and perhaps lay a few traps for the rats of duplicity and self delusion but when all is said and done people have freedom of thought, what they do with it is their own affair.

[Zacs-Master]

'rats of duplicity and self delusion'
Lovely phrase Jom.

[sandyRoe]

Agree. It is a nice phrase. I suppose we duplicitous, self deceiving, rats need to keep an eye out for pitfalls as well as everything else now. :-)

[Stevee]

Oh dear for centuries organised religion, have persecuted, vilified, killed and tried to push to the edges of society, the non-believer and indeed if they have the opportunity still do today.

So now that rationlisation of their belief is becoming the norm in a an increasingly secular society, they go running about wringing their hands.

I take it that the rights of the gay community are fair game? Or does the attitude of the church to Gay marriage not count as bigotry?

Yet again the hypocrisy of organised religion stands like a beacon, in a society that demonstrates, daily, that it know longer needs or wants it.

[Zacs-Master]

Quite a sermon there stevee.

[naomi24]

Time to celebrate? Not at all.

[Zacs-Master]

Thought you would have been delighted at the news Naomi.

[naomi24]

Yes, I expect you did. Well, there you go.

[ladybirder]

I cannot think why anyone has got the impression that Naomi would be happy to see anyone vilified.

[sandyRoe]

Nor do I. Hoist by their own petard, now...

[Zacs-Master]

....and some fell on stoney ground......

[craft1948]

I wear a very small gold cross..................do you think that could be why I was barred from the Co-op?

[sandyRoe]

Have they forgotten the shoplifting? ;-)

[Zacs-Master]

No, that was for nicking that litre bottle of Bombay Sapphire craft.

[emmie]

nothing to celebrate, i don't wish to vilify people, if they are believers then so be it. I am not one of them.

[craft1948]

I'd forgotten about 'the incident' :-(

[birdie1971]

I loved the Telegraph's strap line -

“Britain's Christians are being vilified, warns Lord Carey. Christians are being “persecuted” by courts and “driven underground” in the same way that homosexuals once were, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.”


Oh, the irony!