Rock God X wrote:
Some absolute wankstain on Twitter has started a 'StraightPrideUK' account. Their capacity for totally missing the point would suit Dally down to the ground.
I wonder sometimes whether the capacity for missing the point is actually deliberate.
The entire thing about (some) white, straight men now feeling put-upon seems to be based on an idea that, once upon a time, irrespective of talent or mediocrity, they would simply have been guaranteed a place at the top table. It has a certain logic, in that sense, to so spectacularly and consistently miss the point on such matters.
And then there's the nonsense that is spouted with increasing regularity (well, certainly over at the
Telegraph forums) that the country is going down the pan because people are not going to church and that's all because the clergy is too 'trendy'.
A century or so ago, people were fined if they didn't go to church – the idea that church attendance was indicative of genuine belief or commitment to that church is thus falsely inflated.
But one cannot help but wonder how many of the people genuinely believe all the central tenets of the Christian religion – virgin birth, the Trinity etc – let alone how many of
them go to church regularly. The reality is that, in western Europe, rational thinking is what has removed many bums from pews – and arguably a wider choice of 'spiritual' experiences available in the marketplace of such things, plus a feeling among many that they do not need formal religion in their lives, even if they still have some conventional Christian beliefs.
Those complaining largely seem to see religion as a badge of national and cultural identity – not as a challenge about how they should live their lives and treat their fellow humans.
And I very much suspect that, in most cases, it's a matter of their believing that it's the 'others' who should go to church – not them.
