Comments on: Anglicans repent for slavery http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/ Not praying for (or on) you Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: TW http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/comment-page-1/#comment-134 TW Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:35:00 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/#comment-134 I can only bring myself to buy the paper on Saturday (Jobs, Bad Science and Screen Burn). Pretty much use internet and News24 for anything else :-) I can only bring myself to buy the paper on Saturday (Jobs, Bad Science and Screen Burn). Pretty much use internet and News24 for anything else :-)

]]> By: nullifidian http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/comment-page-1/#comment-133 nullifidian Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:43:45 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/#comment-133 Not usually, although I usually pick up <cite>The Grauniad</cite> during the week; I'm more of a <cite>The Independent</cite> and <cite>The Times</cite> reader (I have access to subsidised newspapers, so it costs as much to buy three as it does one normally). This concept had been rattling around unformed in my brain all morning while watching BBC News 24's coverage of the march, and just came to me as a coherent statement earlier this afternoon. The hypocrisy I see and hear from the interviewed preachers and bishops just turns my stomach: they all, to a man (and to a woman), have claimed that christianity was primarily (or solely) responsible for the ending of the slave trade. And the BBC is giving these people access to the airwaves (or the cable equivalent) to perpetuate this self-serving bullshit. Not usually, although I usually pick up The Grauniad during the week; I’m more of a The Independent and The Times reader (I have access to subsidised newspapers, so it costs as much to buy three as it does one normally).

This concept had been rattling around unformed in my brain all morning while watching BBC News 24’s coverage of the march, and just came to me as a coherent statement earlier this afternoon.

The hypocrisy I see and hear from the interviewed preachers and bishops just turns my stomach: they all, to a man (and to a woman), have claimed that christianity was primarily (or solely) responsible for the ending of the slave trade. And the BBC is giving these people access to the airwaves (or the cable equivalent) to perpetuate this self-serving bullshit.

]]> By: TW http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/comment-page-1/#comment-132 TW Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/03/24/anglicans-repent-for-slavery/#comment-132 It is funny we have both written blogs on a similar topic today (albeit from different angles). Are you a Saturday Guardian reader? :-) You wrote: <blockquote>And I also find the church’s publicity stunt of wearing their heart on their sleeves quite nauseating.</blockquote> Well said, only it is not just the Church. I was grasping for a phrase like this when I wrote my post (as the phrase eluded me, I ended up writing tons of pointlessness..) It is funny we have both written blogs on a similar topic today (albeit from different angles). Are you a Saturday Guardian reader? :-)

You wrote:

And I also find the church’s publicity stunt of wearing their heart on their sleeves quite nauseating.

Well said, only it is not just the Church. I was grasping for a phrase like this when I wrote my post (as the phrase eluded me, I ended up writing tons of pointlessness..)

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