RE: Tory MP 'comes out' as atheist.
January 17, 2015 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2015 at 4:45 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
Oh they do, all the time.
There's a difference between advertising a product or treatment (this is where the advertising standards authority would come in) to stating a belief (which is what is stated above).
You can read any newspapers 'lifestyle' columns and find a myriad of stories about bunk treatments and woo medicines, fad diets, 'anti-oxidents' and all the bullshit. Someone saying prayer works isn't really any different to those.
Hell, when you've got people like Cherie Blair refusing to say whether the Blair's have had their kids vaccinated because of the hysteria around MMR (which was also fully supported by parts of the press), you shouldn't be surprised either by what MPs or the media say about anything, regardless of the evidence for or against.
I'm not naive, I've been studying politics long enough to know its about the playing the game well above being a man of the people. Thing is now is that the UK's population is radically different to when the current executive were 'in training'. Being religious is less of a norm, and people are increasingly skeptical of absurd beliefs, be they religious or scientific. Our MPs shouldn't be afraid to say they're religious or not. Seems like it's the culture of Westminster and Fleet Street which is the problem here.
There's a difference between advertising a product or treatment (this is where the advertising standards authority would come in) to stating a belief (which is what is stated above).
You can read any newspapers 'lifestyle' columns and find a myriad of stories about bunk treatments and woo medicines, fad diets, 'anti-oxidents' and all the bullshit. Someone saying prayer works isn't really any different to those.
Hell, when you've got people like Cherie Blair refusing to say whether the Blair's have had their kids vaccinated because of the hysteria around MMR (which was also fully supported by parts of the press), you shouldn't be surprised either by what MPs or the media say about anything, regardless of the evidence for or against.
I'm not naive, I've been studying politics long enough to know its about the playing the game well above being a man of the people. Thing is now is that the UK's population is radically different to when the current executive were 'in training'. Being religious is less of a norm, and people are increasingly skeptical of absurd beliefs, be they religious or scientific. Our MPs shouldn't be afraid to say they're religious or not. Seems like it's the culture of Westminster and Fleet Street which is the problem here.
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