by Damozel | Strictly speaking, it's not a political story at all, except to the extent it seems to have got the knees of some conservatives reflexively jerking and their Christmas stockings consequently in a twist. Macsmind, who has an "honorary degree in theology" begs to differ with" "theologian"" (quotes his) Oxford-trained Dr. Rowan Williams, whom he seems to suspect of being an operative on the "war on christmas," even though Dr. Williams actually said nothing inconsistent with what Macsmind seems to be saying.
Crunchy Con, on the other hand, is afraid that if we don't train up our children to unquestioning belief in every word of the Bible, we will lose the war on terror. Or at least that's what I think he means. Being a mere soppy liberal and lacking an honorary (or any) degree in theology, I may have missed his real much more subtle point and mistaken it for a ridiculously far-fetched argument. Read more: Ricky Gervais, the Archbishop of Canterbury & The Nativity Story. See Memeorandum here.
UPDATE. And thanks to The Sideshow for pointing me to this germane op-ed on hardliner Christianists.
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Who made Christopher Hitchens an Arch Bishop and more importantly, why?
Posted by: poetryman69 | December 22, 2007 at 07:06 PM