Tony Blair
'Face to Faith'
June 9, 2009
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I've reached this conclusion after learning that Tony Blair is calling on all religions to "unite" against the evil forces of "secularism" and "atheists." Yes, atheists and secularism (which, by the way, is supported by both irreligious atheists and religious theists) are so awful in the eyes of Tony Blair that they must be combatted by the combined political, cultural, social, and economic power of all the world's religions. Just how scared are they of us?
The only people who think that secularism is a threat are people who support some form of theocracy. The only people who think that atheists need to be suppressed by religion are bigots.
"We face an aggressive secular attack from without. We face the threat of extremism from within."
Arguing that there was "no hope" from atheists who scorn God, he said the best way to confront the secularist agenda was for all faiths to unite against it.
Source: Times
This should sound familiar: it's almost exactly the same message that's been pushed over the past couple of years by Saudi King Abdullah. The Saudis have even hosted a couple of "interfaith" conferences designed to bring together represented from multiple religions and get them to work together against secularism, atheism, and the associated freedoms -- freedoms like the freedom of speech, used by people to criticize religion or to try to reform religion.
"I ask representatives of all the monotheistic religions to meet with their brothers in faith," Abdullah told delegates to a seminar on "Dialogue Among Civilizations between Japan and the Islamic World," according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
"If God wills it, we will then meet with our brothers from other religions, including those of the Torah and the Gospel... to come up with ways to safeguard humanity," he added. Abdullah said the country's top clerics have given him approval to pursue his idea and that he plans to get the opinion of Muslim leaders from other countries.
According to SPA, the Saudi king also intends to address the United Nations on the subject. "We have lost sincerity, morals, fidelity and attachment to our religions and to humanity," Abdullah said Monday, deploring "the disintegration of the family and the rise of atheism in the world - a frightening phenomenon that all religions must confront and vanquish."
Source: Christian Post [emphasis added]
What if Tony Blair's message read like this: "Arguing that there was "no hope" from Jews who scorn Christ, he said the best way to confront the Jewish agenda was for all Christian denominations to unite against it." How hard would it be for people to recognize such a message as stupid, dangerous, and bigoted? Blair would probably be criticized quickly and strongly, but that's because people today can recognize anti-Semitic bigotry for what it is. People have a much harder time recognizing or even caring about anti-atheist bigotry -- and few seem to have any comprehension of the dangers in anti-secularist politics.
Poor Tony, he got all infected by the Bush god virus in a bad way. Is there any cure that would take? Heck, even a lobotomy would be a vast improvement on a fellow like that, wouldn’t it?
An eloquent speaker with a gifted mind turned to mush…pity.
Tony B. Liar recently converted to Catholicism although from the outside he still appears just as big a hypocrite as he was before the “conversion”. It would be enlightening to know, however, what he found so objectionable about the Church of England, let alone Atheism.
Poor Henry VIII must be turning in his grave.
We don’t “scorn God”, Tony, we don’t believe any gods exist.
Why is something that seems so simple so difficult for religious people like Blair to understand?
he could soon be the president of EU
I still don’t understand why people dislike disblievers to the extent they do. We bother no one and typically keep it to ourselves until some ignorant hate speech like this is presented. He should just drown in the f***ing English Channel if he’s going to continue to talk like this.
I live in the UK and am ashamed to say I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt for far too long. He is clearly so wrong in his tirade not only against atheism but also secularism too.
How the British Labour Party was hoodwinked by this guy for so long shows the extent he hid his beliefs in order to gain and keep power. The guys credibility is in tatters. At best he is dishonest, deceitful and a lying toad. He got elected to parliament on a ticket to clean up British politics. Soon after leaving it, the Blair legacy is a political system exposed as being as corrupt as ever. Watch out EU, here comes trouble.
As an atheist i would say i am more amused than offended. The man doesn’t even know what an atheist is. I have now lost all respect for this bigot and war criminal. Why doesn’t he just fu**off, he has done enough damage already.
I knew he was up to no good as soon as he joined forces with the Dark side (Bush)
Perhaps the pope promised Tony eventual sainthood if he would join him in dissing atheists. The Catholic Church must need a patron saint of lying, warmongering, weakminded politicians. Or perhaps a patron saint of lapdogs.
Isn’t Tony Blair a crook?
Dude? Why the surprise??? Religion teaches BLIND UNQUESTIONING BELIEF! We are opposing such fertile ground for political dictatorship under the disguise of whatever order. Do you think Blair and Bush could pull off their crap if a significantly larger majority of Americans and Brits were secularist, humanist, atheist skeptics??? Never! We are calling for people to think, we teach them to think and this is the greatest enemy of people who want and have control! Of course he is against that!