"pencil" <pencil.erasor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Any political movement that seeks to divide a community on the basis
> of colour or creed is incompatible with a true estimation of humanity
> and poses a grave danger to harmonious community relations."
>
> This 'bishops' warning' is a perfect example of the nonsense that
> egalitarian speak has become. It's a parody of itself, and if had been
> intended it would be a work of art.
>
> But, astoni****ngly, this was said in all sincerity. Without even the
> slightest hint of irony, or recognition of the contradictions contained
> in the words. Is that self delusion or cynicism?
>
> The word 'community' is used twice - once to mean the inhabitants
> of Britain, "Any political movement that seeks to divide a community
> on the basis of colour or creed...", and once to mean the separate
> racial and cultural communities that make up British society, "...a
> grave threat to harmonious community relations."
>
> Thus, according to the bishops, a nation that is divided on the basis
> of colour and creed into a number of disparate communities (and
> which those bishops suggest is a wondrous thing) must not be
> divided on the basis of colour or creed.
>
> And then they wonder why so few want to sit on their pews and
> listen to such ramblings...
>
>
Surely Bishops only exist because creeds (as in 'systems of
religious belief') exist?
The word derives from credo & it seems to me that creeds
are the things causing the divisons - so they talk in bloody riddles.
It's the 'believers' of one kind or another who cause all the bloody
trouble in this world & it would be a better place if they didn't.
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