Here is the man who was reluctant to discuss his Christian faith while in office, but has now turned global priest to help save the world through faith and religions. Someone should examine his head. I leave his heart for the divine to plumb its depths!
One inconsistency that looks like a real joke is this: that while his faith did not affect his decision to go to war – it did help to sustain him through the conflict (as he quoted to have said). He goes on to explain that one’s faith cannot help one to make a right decision but it can sustain one after making the decision.
What utter rubbish and a disgrace to the flip side of faith – that is faithfulness. Sure, one’s faith does not provide one with a fixed blueprint to the making of right decisions. But surely, there are enough examples from the Christian faith in relation to values and morals that could have pointed to why we should not have gone to this war based only on the premise that one sophisticated liar thought there was another dangerous meglaomaniac who needed to be taken out. Over a million people in this country, including all the Christian churches, protested – yet he saw it fit not to listen to these voices. It may be that Blair is the only person in the UK with a direct line to the Divine!
But what is even more disgusting is to suggest that having gone to war it was his faith that sustained him! I wonder what the Divine will make of this inconsistency. Faith sustains but faith has no role to play in the sin of creating a “one eternal hell” for Iraqis or murdering lots of innocent people (collateral damages). How convenient it is to use faith and by implication the Divine for one’s selfish end – like some puppet always there to soothe one’s feelings - not to challenge one’s immoral acts and decisions that will have devastating consequences.
It is not only the BNP who have hijacked the Christian faith for their selfish and disgusted motives. They have an accomplice in Tony Blair, albeit from a different angle: he has hijacked the Christian faith and presents us with a face of faith and God that will justify immoral actions: not one that calls him or us to accountability. Blair should be heading for the confession box of his local Catholic congregation or whenever he stops by the earthly throne of St. Peter in Rome.
© copyright jagessar December 13 2009
