Comments on: Don’t mock the Pope http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2006/11/16/dont-mock-the-pope/ Watching. Pointing. Laughing. Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: martyn http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2006/11/16/dont-mock-the-pope/comment-page-1/#comment-45728 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:15:01 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=616#comment-45728 Or the holy ghost coming over him 😉

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So this cross-dressing closet nazi with a fondness for Prada slippers goes into the pulpit……

Is the next line something about an altar boy waiting for him?

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oh, never mind!

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It’s not that they’re offended, it’s that they’re frightened of losing their grip! Hey, with all that money at stake, who can blame them?

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Another form of prejudice is the way that parents of faith (or children attending faith shcools) can get subsidised travel, yet secular parents cannot get the same to AVOID faith schools. This isn’t fair and in my mind it amounts to religious discrimination. Positive discrimination is discrimination too.

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Hey, do they sell bread in that restaurant ?
If so I’ll have five loaves…

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No, nor did I.

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Maybe one way is to produce a proper research on the effects of uncritial, or non-scepticly held, beliefs and institutions that promote them? Sure, these concepts will have to be defined as well.. (e.g. what is a belief, a sceptical view, what is non-sceptical, critical, etc..) There’s a LOT of work, and scope in that area…
However, it can also be approached from equality agenda. i.e. social groupings, religions included, should not be favourably prejudiced by legistlators, media, etc.. (e.g. the nonsensicality of almost every “moral issues” talk in the radio/tv – to have a religious core. This is prejudice because it doesn’t question whether the concept and indeed practice of religion, which ever it might be – is moralistic or not… Some might agrue that since the concept of religiousness compless one and society to hypocricity – it is imoral in its core..)
Another form of prejudice is council rates for religious places. These are currently classed as “charity”, hence rates are lower than business…

You might also be interested in http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/nofaithinschools/ – for more than 1 reason..

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