(June 18, 2017 at 10:38 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: Yeah, in the last few days Tim Farron leader of the third party in British politics (yes, yes I know they've 1/3 the seats of the SNP, but the SNP are a Scottish party) resigned his position claiming that the climate over the last few years, and over the recent election in particular, have become too hostile to allow christians to take part.
This despite the head of state being head of the state church still, despite the 29 anglican (episcopalian in Yank terms) bishops having permanent seats in the Lords, despite all the PMs over the last forty years being loudly and visibly christian and so on.
What really got Mr Farron's goat was that as a member of the fundie wing of the anglican church (yes, English protestantism has groups as bad as the Westboros, still) he was asked on the campaign trail to give a definitive answer over whether he thought biblical creation was true or false (i.e. the 6,000 year old, flat earth were everything was made as is now) and got in a snit because people (correctly) interpreted his refusal to answer this simple and straight forward question as an implicit admission that he's a creatard and mocked him over it.
Must be really hard being a christard in the UK, no?
PS I though long and hard over where to put this one, here, Politics or News.
I have never heard anything about Tim Farron and creationism and I am a fervent reader of all things relating to English politics.
The question that did him in was when he was asked about was his views on homosexuality and he fudged the answer, saying something along the lines that that was a private view. Which would have been ok if he wasn't trying to be Prime Minister.
A google search of Tim Farron and his views on creationism garnered zero relevant hits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33580567
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
