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Catholics Object to Blair Preaching Hypocrisy in Westminster Cathedral
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© Dr M D Magee
Contents Updated: Thursday, 3 July 2008
Blair the Hypocrite
I wonder what proportion of Christians know what hypocrisy is. It is pretty evident that plenty of the most prominent of them do not seem to have a clue. Former British Prime Minister, now the Middle East peace envoy for the quartet of the US, the UN, the EU and Russia, Tony Blair, has taken his “hypocritic oath”, it seems and having connived in the murder of unknown myriads of innocent Arabs by invading Iraq, he is now passionately convinced that religious faith can transform the future of humanity for the better. Did he think that when he ordered the British army in to support Bush’s plainly greed and revenge induced invasion?
He is reported in the Catholic Herald as saying, in Westminster Catholic Cathedral, power was shifting rapidly from the West to the emerging superpowers of China and India, and the role of faith was vital in the struggle for a world of peaceful coexistence. Is this peaceful coexistence the same as that he promoted in Iraq?
We learn now that the US is forcing long term oil supply treaties on to the puppet government of Iraq that will require US troops to remain for thirty or more years to safeguard. Obviously, no future government of Iraq will feel bound by agreements forced on to them while they were an occupied country, so Iraq has to remain occupied until the oil runs out! For the people of Iraq, peace is possible only while the US can syphon off Iraqi oil, and that requires an occupying army to enforce it.
The former Pope was not keen on the invasion, but the new one readily accepted Blair, who was an Anglican, into the Catholic Church without question, despite the blood he had on his hands, but then the Catholic Church has a great deal of blood on its hands, and a billion Catholics still think it is the earthly agency of the good God.
Catholic Protests
Having said that, there is a minority of dissident Catholics who seem ready to protest, albeit via prayer, and not anything that actually makes an impression. Before Blair began sermonizing his hypocrisies, Pax Christi UK, the Catholic peace movement, some dressed in sackcloth and ashes with banners quoting remarks made by Benedict XVI and John Paul II against war, prayed silently outside. During the sermon, hundreds of protesters from the Stop the War Coalition group, objecting to his taking Britain into war in Iraq, tried to drown out his words with loud yelling, musical instruments, whistles, pans and alarms to make as much noise as possible, and band played throughout. Meanwhile…
The world “will be immeasurably poorer, more dangerous, more fragile and above all, more aimless” without a spiritual dimension.
Blair talks doubletalk, and that in blunt language means lies. But then he is a committed neocon, and they admit religion is useful to them for controlling the faithful masses. It was always thus, but the faithful generally are too dim to understand, or are like Blair, hypocrites manipulating democracy via the mass of the people to suit themmselves. In the UK he had to keep his religious opinions subdued recognizing British people know “religion is divisive, irrational and harmful”.
He thinks we need “to discover and rediscover our essential humility before God, our dignity as found in our lives being placed at the service of the source and goal of everything”. He should begin with himself, but again, there is one thing that Christians seem almost universally incapable of, and that is self criticism.
Blair wants to promote the idea of faith “as a force for progress”, yet faith is believing something because somebody says so, and for no other reason. This man has been the leader of the United Kingdom, a man with power over a nation, but one who thinks unproven and unquestionable beliefs that have led to the deaths of untold people over two millennia should be progressive. As in killing an additional tranch of innocent human beings?
He says faith has the “broader objective” of helping more people to realise religion as a “positive force for good”. This at a time when Moslems fanatics are aiming to kill as many westerners as they can explode suicide bombs next to on planes, trains and buses, and western Christian leaders like him are retaliating in the most indiscriminate way using far more sophisticated weaponry. He continued:
I am passionate about the importance of faith to our modern world and about the need for people of faith to reach out to one another.
Reach out to one another for what? So that they can organize crusades against people of some other faith? Maybe his conscience is twinging just a little. He has set up what he grandly calls the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to promote interfaith dialogue, yet the only dialogue he thought Moslems understood in 2003 was the explosion of heavy tonnage bombs dropped by super jets on to defenceless women and children below. If there is a Good Christian God, as opposed to the obviously wicked one, Blair has a lot of making up to do! Asked if he would have done anything differently in office he said:
There is nothing I look back on now and say that as a result of my religious journey I would have done things very differently, but that is expressly not to say that I got everything right.
In short, he is unrepentant, but the Christian God demanded repentance and thereafter strict righteousness for salvation. Blair seems confident that he can meet his maker with a clear conscience. His god must be the wicked one! Come on! The man really is no Christian, judging “Christian” by the criteria of the Christian God himself. You are hypocrite, Mr Blair, and your supposed Judge, Christ, had hard words to say about your kind. You had better pray harder.
It is hard to accept that Blair is a total moron, but if he is not, he is totally evil. Like his faithful Catholic predecessors he uses faith to get his own disgusting way in the world, and primarily that is self-aggrandisement paid for by other people’s lives. What could be more wicked? The man, like his neocon chums in the Bush administration, is a sociopathic manipulator out for his own good with no regard for human life and values.
And all under the banner of God!
