On 12/09/2010 01:45 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
It's fact that many "bible bashers" in the UK are seen with some
suspicion nowadays; Catholics are especially vulnerable to such
stereotypes following the heavily publicised instances of child abuse.
The abuses actually happened and consequences are ... consequential. The
point is that child abuse are unfortunately a widespread problem in
every community and not of a specific one. It's easy to search in the
news and find similar episodes in other religions, but generally
speaking in "common" people, especially school teachers - for obvious
reasons. That's why associating the problem with a specific community is
FUD.
I'm not condoning or making any value judgement of such stereotypes
here, simply stating my observations.
It also didn't help the reputation of christianity by having Tony
Blair associate himself with the religion so strongly (not that he's
guilty of child abuse, unless you consider him to have abused them all
by way of the education system).
Well, it depends on what you think of Tony Blair. Curiously, in my
opinion he's the only decent european leader we've had in the past
twenty years (and I had this opinion since he was in charge). Seeing a
problem with a political leader associated with a religion is a funny
thing that seems to happen in Europe only (well, I'd rather say in some
european countries).
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