Ass comment of the day

Micheal White:

Yet the same church leads the charge against abortion and contraception, gay marriage and gay adoption, campaigns which are often the cause of dreadful misery and unhappiness, especially among the world’s poor.

No one denies that Rome remains the market leader, the Tesco of Christianity, so lesser churches follow suit. Protestant fundamentalists and born-agains across the American south take a similar line. So do Muslims and the Methodist George W Bush.

It’s all part of the revival of faith and I’m not knocking it since secular fundamentalism managed to do even more harm in the 20th century.

There ya go, no sense bashing harmful religious practices because as we all know, atheism is far far worse. Well, maybe it was one atheist, but Stalin was so bad we can’t take the risk. Just like Hitler’s catholicism completely invalidates anything any other Catholic has said or done, right?  Right?

Bonus points for ’secular fundamentalism’, I’m not quite sure what it means (someone who takes it as a fundamental that mixing church and state is a bad idea?) but it sounds pretty scary.