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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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28 Oct 2003 03:54:02 AM |
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Some may hate us, but here we stand |
Some may hate us, but here we stand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1072386,00.html
If there's one thing guaranteed to turn the liberal chattering classes
into rabid persecutors, it's Christians
Cristina Odone
Tuesday October 28, 2003
The Guardian
The chattering classes - educated men and women who are comfortably
off, rise with the Today programme and retire after some dinner-party
philosophising - pride themselves on being tolerant, sensible and
humane. Yet they share one prejudice that turns them into rabid
persecutors: Christians. Christians are seen as creationist
fundamentalists who are anti-women, anti-gays and anti-semitic. Their
churches are led by child abusers and autocratic bigots; their
faithful are out of touch and out to convert.
The media eggs on the stone-casting. There's the tabloid press, for
whom "Sex-change vicar in mercy dash to palace" just about sums it up;
and even the BBC joins in, with their plans for a satirical cartoon
called Popetown and their choice of Christopher Hitchens, Mother
Teresa's most vitriolic critic, to question - uninterrupted - her
beatification on the Today programme.
Cristina Odone
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