Former Prime Minister Tony Blair used a speech at Georgetown University to warn of the threat against the West that is growing at alarming rate. No, he wasn’t talking about terrorism, the recession, or even Swine Flu. He was talking about atheists and the menace they present to the world. Not since leaders tackled the dangers of witches in our midst has a politician sounded such an alarm. This politician happens to be the leading contender for the first “president of Europe.”
Blair sounded the alarm for all God-fearing citizens to be on the look out for atheists who he seems to portray as an equal threat as terrorists. He warned that “[w]e face an aggressive secular attack from without. We face the threat of extremism from within.” He called on religious people to unite against atheists who offer “no hope” and threaten the demise of the West. How dangerous? Just read this incredible line: “Those who scorn God and those who do violence in God’s name, both represent views of religion. But both offer no hope for faith in the twenty first century.”
“[A]n aggressive secular attack from without”? I do not recall many atheists or agnostics driving car bombs into markets or invading nations to fight for the “one and true [lack of] faith.”
Could you imagine if Blair singled out a faith for such analogies to terrorism? There are millions of atheists around the world who simply do not believe in God. Yet you have one of the world’s leaders calling for a united campaign against them and calling their beliefs a danger to mankind.
The only question is whether Blair will be stopping in Albuquerque to join City Councilor Don Harris at the front lines against the atheist hoard, here.
For the full speech, click here.
From Elaine quote of the Independent article…
“Mr Blair, said to be the most religious Prime Minister since Gladstone, has backed the millionaire car dealer Sir Peter Vardy in his attempt to take over seven comprehensives and turn them into Christian Academies promoting Old Testament views of the world’s creation. This includes the claim that it was made in six days, 10,000 years ago. Two of Sir Peter’s schools are open already, in Gateshead and Middlesbrough, and a third is under construction in Doncaster.”
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This is because Mr. Blair is a very smart man. He understands a populace who is “God fearing” is much easier to control than one who doesn’t believe in God at all and could care less. A fearful population is much more apt to capitulate to the will of the state (i.e. The Patriot Act).
If you can keep everyone fearful in the world of form (terrorist attacks, crime) and keep everyone fearful in the realm of spirit (there is a God that is watching you and judging you), they become totally fearful and more faithful to the state. That’s my 2 cents anyways.
Yo, Tony! You just call on those nice christian boys at Blackwater to take care of those evil atheists and extremeists that belong to any other faith than your own. The crusaders will save you!!! (I’d always wondered if Blair was sincere in his insanity and I see now he is.)
Tony Blair was an anglican and converted to Catholicism. Sir Alec Guiness was also a notable convert from anglicanism to Roman Catholicism. Glad Mr. Blair is on board. He is to be commended..
Blair is an Evangelical Christian–and it also apperas a believer in Creationism. I guess that’s why he and Dubya got along so well.
Things are getting scarier and scarier. I’m going to watch my tongue lest I be charged with blasphemy–or castigated for being a non-believer.
From the Independent UK (June 13, 2004)
Revealed: Blair’s link to schools that take the Creation literally
IoS investigation: Critics voice serious doubts over Christian academies run by millionaire car dealer and backed by PM
By Nicholas Pyke
“A controversial chain of schools teaching Biblical “creationism” has been given Tony Blair’s personal support despite serious doubts raised by parents and teachers, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
“Mr Blair, said to be the most religious Prime Minister since Gladstone, has backed the millionaire car dealer Sir Peter Vardy in his attempt to take over seven comprehensives and turn them into Christian Academies promoting Old Testament views of the world’s creation. This includes the claim that it was made in six days, 10,000 years ago. Two of Sir Peter’s schools are open already, in Gateshead and Middlesbrough, and a third is under construction in Doncaster.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-blairs-link-to-schools-that-take-the-creation-literally-732032.html
(I hope I typed that URL correctly.)
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Have things really changed that much? Do they really care?
Trial by ordeal is a judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task. In some cases, the accused was considered innocent if they survived the test, or if their injuries healed; in others, only death was considered proof of innocence. (If the accused died, they were often presumed to have gone to a suitable reward or punishment in the afterlife, which was considered to make trial by ordeal entirely fair.)
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_ordeal
Patrick Oden.
Most witches weren’t witches, just people subjected to enough enhanced interrogation techniques to say that they were witches to make it stop.
I used to think that Tony Blair was fairly rational and his eagerness to invade Iraq puzzled me. Now we know, he was not rational at all but a raving religious loon perhaps even worse than George W Bush.
We know that George W told the French President that in relation to Iraq he was on a mission from God, and that latter idiot did not let the world in on the secret until it was too late.
If ever there were three men who really truly deserve death by slow and excruciating torture, they are the three leaders of the coalition of the willing. It is apparent by now that Barak Obama deserves to be added to the list.
Tony Blair, George W Bush, John Winston Howard and the most recent two Roman Catholic popes are excellent examples of why I have gone from being a Christian via atheism to becoming a devout Anti-Christian.
It is about time that we atheists got together and started burning Christians at the stake.
The odious Tony Blair might be a good one to start with, and should be followed by the other leaders of the coalition of the willing responsible for the deaths of over a million Iraquis, George W Bush (USA) and John Winston Howard (Australia).
Mr. Blair’s faith does face an “aggressive secular attack.” An attack that uses rational arguments as its weapon. If Mr. Blair finds rational arguments a threat to his faith, the problem, dear Tony, is not the atheists.
After a bit of fish and chips, toad in the hole, and spotted dick, I can only assume himself proud as a peacock ready for sharing his noble values of war mongering and poodle ing..
Eeeee uuuuu Prime Minister indeed!
I like the title of this post. Although, to be fair to witches, aren’t most witches at least pantheists rather than atheists?
Not that Blair would take notice of any significant difference between the two, and would likely call them both the spawn of Satan.
I never realized Blair was an extremist.
oops … I meant “Mr. Tony Blair” not “Mr. Tony Brown” … Freudian slip I guess, indicating that Brown and Blair are one and the same.
mespo727272 1, October 9, 2009 at 7:30 am
Blair, Bush – Birds of a feather?
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Should be tarred and tethered together.
so deflect, place the blame, secure your position on the right hand of the _______?
He called on religious people to unite against atheists who offer “no hope” and threaten the demise of the West.
Any astute observer knows that “the West” needs no help whatsoever to bring about its own demise. There is a sense of mysticism in that failure:
http://ecocosmology.blogspot.com/2009/10/mysticism-of-failure.html
Advanced atheism does not offer “no hope”, in those aspects of it which look forward.
Ecocosmology is a more sane viewpoint because it does not care if you believe in deity or not, so long as you work for the survival of the human species rather than behave as if you are trying to destroy it Mr. Tony Brown.
http://ecocosmology.blogspot.com/2009/10/wanted-technology-to-save-our-species.html
It’s funny to say atheists are a danger to society because atheists are the least likely to commit crimes and least likely to get divorced of any religious group.
Blair, Bush – Birds of a feather?
Given your bizarre interpretation of Blair’s speech, everyone should be worried.
I always knew that Blair wasn’t to be trusted, I just didn’t realise how delusional and idiotic he was.
Still, he’s a politician so I should have known better.