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For sheer arrogance and nonsense, it would be hard to beat this editorial in the Independent last Monday morning: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-few-words-that-could-prove-a-revolutionary-moment-2140330.html

It had to have a response and it is sad I’m away for a few days because I’m sure that there will be lots of flack from other readers. However, N.B. Having returned from my travels, there was only one respondent and that of little comprehension, I couldn’t work out quite what they were trying to communicate in response to my comments but thought that in the end, they had ‘personal issues’ which seemingly are as yet, unresolved.

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It is both amusing if rather sad also that one only need put “Pope” somewhere in a headline to bring out a lot of lickspittle spite from those who are anti theist by default or those who consider themselves “far too intellectually smart”, no different whether in the reader’s columns of the Telegraph, Independent or Guardian.

I suppose my conclusion on these things is quite simple, the Pope must be doing something right to attract such mindless bile because the opposite of Love is not Hate, it is indifference.

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There was a story running today about potential “attacks on European cities” being foiled by UAVs – missile carrying drone aircraft taking out various targets in Afghanistan and likely, the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. What followed this article in the Telegraph were quite a number of readers comments that fairly rapidly built up over the day.

One comment which struck me quite forcefully was some idiot who quite out of ‘left field’ decided to post on his views of religion generally. What struck me was just how obnoxious militant atheists have become, I did not let it pass without comment…

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The aftermath of the Papal Visit is quite interesting on several levels and especially given the ‘trepidation’ that preceded it: Would the crowds turnout ? Would he be subject to constant and abusive protests from the “Protest the Pope” campaign ?

In the end whether just Catholics and the curious, massive crowds greeted him everywhere he went and the umbrella protest group, failed miserably in whatever aims, if any, they had and the ‘why’ might be worth examining, less to say “Ha, ha losers” but rather more to understand what it might indicate about the mood of the UK today.

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A news story on the BBC caught my attention concerning a “Gay Catholic Mass”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11218791

With the upcoming visit of the Pope, it set me thinking around the issues concerning “Faith”, my own childhood and because I spent about 3 years as a doorman at a Gay bar, the position of Catholic Gays and specifically the English Catholic Dimension. Whilst to outsiders, I am sure that the Catholic Church seems both universal and monolithic, the reality is that the Church is highly diverse and the difference between nations and continents, can be quite marked.

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There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

One suspects that with a new book to push, being controversial is a way of attracting attention so: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.” All quite amusing and regardless of which side of the “God Debate” you are on.

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In common with most of the British Press reacting to the Pope visiting the UK in September and in his letter to the British Bishops, expressing his fears over British anti-discrimination laws that have already led to Catholic Adoption Agencies closing down or severing their links with the Catholic Church.

Of course and even in the Independent, the Anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish vote were much in evidence, the Pro-Faggot Lobby was out in force and just for the total intolerance and bigotry, the  Readers comments are worth a browse:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anger-after-pope-slams-unjust-uk-equality-laws-1886589.html

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Richard Ingrams wrote a column in Saturday’s Independent in which he covered three things, resisting daft rules imposed by a society gone politically barmy, some stuff on “Approved Royal Biographies” and the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux “visiting” the UK. He then had a rant about Christianity being the reason Elton John wasn’t allowed to adopt an orphan. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingramsrsquos-week-crazy-new-restrictions-that-must-be-resisted-1790059.html

Now okay, I don’t have an issue with Holy Relics but frankly, they are really not my personal thing but that said, what harm is there in them and just why the fuss by some journalists ? Have these people got nothing better to do or more interesting to write about to fulfil their contractual obligations of “x words” for their employer ? In that context, my comments to Mr Ingrams:

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