Religion is a bloody disgrace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1302082,00.html
The Abrahamic family of faiths is now frighteningly dysfunctional
Tony Bayfield
Saturday September 11, 2004
The Guardian
In 1982, I was down at an interfaith centre in the West Country. A
friend, an Anglican priest, suggested we went to meet his bishop.
Since this particular bishop lived in a proper palace, I was really up
for the visit and spent a lot of time gawping at the moat, crenellated
walls and power-portraits.
The bishop was charming but suggested, en passant, that the massacres
at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps did not represent Judaism's
finest hour. Being a small but bolshy Jew, I pointed out that the
massacres had been perpetrated by Lebanese Christian militia and what
did he have to say about that? He looked at me with genuine bemusement
and said: "Obviously they weren't Christians because Christians don't
do things like that. So I suppose we say, 'the blighters'."
Tony Bayfield
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