Politics and Religion

I am getting increasingly worried that I am seeing a trend in Westminster towards a hidden religious agendas with regards to governing people, i.e. the last Prime Minister (Tony Blair) and the replacement (Gordon Brown) new Prime Minister. Can I be the only person to be aware that they both have heavily religious backgrounds? Blair is Christian going Catholic and Brown is from a Scottish preachers family.

Don’t get me wrong, I am very keen to have a country governed by a system that encourages a high moral standard. But this should not involve any kind of faith or belief in any historically invented but unfounded creator or omnipotent being. How do you see it???

Another London Mosque!

So the plan is for the mosque to be so big that people flying in from all over the world for the 2012 Olympics will it see it as the biggest landmark in London, bigger than St Paul’s, Westminster Abbey or Wembley Stadium.

Every one is entitled to their belief but with the growth of Muslim buildings and their ridiculous size I wonder how long it will be before the mistrust in the Muslim faith by the Christian community becomes a more serious local issue in more places than the government will like or admit to.

Appeasing a local religious group is only going to add to alienating the rest of the community.

I thought the official line was to aim for multi-cultural harmony and while I’m sure this is an admirable if not realistic goal the increase in Mosque buildings will only go towards aggravating an already irritating religious sore.  

The DaVinci code and the Catholic’s

After seeing the DaVinci Code film I wondered what the fuss was about, Catholics jumping up and down getting upset about Dan Brown’s book. Now I’ve read the book I must say It is a really good eye opener on the Catholic faith’s history. I spent some time on-line checking some facts on the books quoted part and Dan Brown did do his home work.

The Originators of the Roman Catholic faith, Emperor Constantine and the group he called together in 325AD made many choices about which books to include in the Bible and it is clear the purpose was to control the people and the potential troubles brewing between the Christians and the Pagans of Rome. Surely though now, we are intelligent enough to see that through out its history the Roman Catholic church has continued to twist the truth for its own ends, pushing woman into second place.

In so called Pagan times it was the female who created life and earth but then suddenly it was decided man, namely Adam, was at the beginning.

Come on people, give it some thought. Religions are based on control. Have your own beliefs but don’t let the churches control your thinking.

Read the DaVinci Code, enjoy the story and give some thought to the history behind it all.