"Our natural enemies are the Religious Right, who self-righteously use their religion to support racism and nationalism and other forms of oppression."

They're not your enemies. You have just fast-track sainted two of them, John-Paul II and Mother Teresa, quite likely the two worst of the last hundred years if you count people of influence. They're doing all the work for your Church while those of you who purport to be on the left provide the acceptable surface conscience gloss for the public consumption of the rest of us. You change nothing, really, do you? Just look at the Church's teachings on sex and contraception. Same old - outmoded, outdated, out of touch and thoroughly immoral. The only difference is that some of you are learning that breaking the rules won't actually pitch you into hell, you hope.


Belief in a supernatural deity is utterly ridiculous, Kevin. So is supporting Arsenal or Man U, of course. But, on any objective level, it is ridiculous. It just isn't very diplomatic of me to say so, that's all. I don't feel an especial need to be diplomatic about a phenomenon that is potentially so harmful.