tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post378714023640034147..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Cracked ConservativesPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-41392257070743961182012-10-12T19:48:41.251+01:002012-10-12T19:48:41.251+01:00I don't do despair. The world is a shitty plac...I don't do despair. The world is a shitty place, but I do think we have the wherewithal to change it. As a dead French philosopher once noted, where there is power there is resistance.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-20014674795707683402012-10-12T16:18:17.405+01:002012-10-12T16:18:17.405+01:00And the likes of Hunt, Dorries et al are doing the...And the likes of Hunt, Dorries et al are doing their utmost to turn this country into America, so there's zero grounds for complacency.<br /><br />Let us also bear in mind this gentleman:<br />http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/10/984071/pro-life-congressman-pressured-mistress-to-get-an-abortion/<br /><br />It's a very telling point, and one you'll forgive me for not labouring, that he is right in a crucial sense: the Old and New Testaments don't condemn slavery. "Saint" Paul said being nice to slaves was a good idea, he never said having slaves was a bad one.<br /><br />You've got your Wilberforces in the abolitionist movement, but how come his Christianity led him to the exact opposite conclusion reached by Christians (and, naturally, others) down the centuries towards the issue? <br /><br />I'm still too young for cynicism, just about. And yet when we've got a 14 year old girl being shot for thinking it might be nice for girls in Pakistan to enjoy the rights our daughters have, and all manner of shite, it's hard to avoid totally despairing.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com