RE: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason
April 10, 2013 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2013 at 9:55 pm by Cyberman.)
Only the 'liberal' media? I've lost count of how many news stories have popped up in which some religious authority or other has been wheeled out to give their opinion in the name of "balanced reporting". One notable occasion that springs to mind involved Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish becoming surrogate parents, with Christian Voice's Stephen Green being interviewed for his opinion, predictable as it was. I remember emailing the BBC myself, not to complain about giving the man airtime to express his views, but to point out that the interview had omitted the fact that Green and his organisation are the kind of thing that give religious authorities the bad press you bemoaned earlier; spreading hatred against minorities, malicious litigation, campaigning for people to be killed etc. Basically, behaving in exactly the sort of ways that Muslim preachers have been expelled for. Indeed, they had previously organised a hate campaign against the BBC for their intended showing of Jerry Springer The Opera. I asked that, in the interests of fairness and impartiality - two of the Beeb's buzzwords - the viewer be informed of these facts.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
