Tony Blair is now a Catholic

[FireGarden]

Do you think it was more of a

(1) Blair: "OK God, should I invade Iraq? What's that? If the next word I hear starts with a constanant then you wants me to invade Iraq, If it starts with a vowel you want me to not invade...OK..."

Chere: "Tea's ready!"

Blair: "Invasion it is!"

or a

(2) "Please God, help me make the right decision"

type of prayer? The latter seems more likely than the former no?

I'm willing to accept it was the second.
Does Blair think that he was helped to get the right answer? If so, wouldn't that give him a special kind of certainty? -- one not supported by objective advice.

Maybe it was a bit like Homer's prayer: "Lord, if in thy wisdom you approve of this war then give me no sign...... Thy will be done." After all, isn't all such prayer a search for justification?

If Blair said, "I prayed but got no answer so I had to make the decision on my own." That wouldn't have been so bad.

 

[Elizabeth I]

I heard this on the news yesterday and I'm not sure why anybody outside the circle of Mr. Blair's family and friends cares. Especially now that he's out of office.

 

[E.J.Armstrong]

While I don't think it is a good thing to have a political leader who is also religious - especially not one who asks God if he should send soldiers into battle - I'd rather see a political leader be open and honest about his faith, than be sneaky and deceitful, in order to protect his own political career.

The catholic god apparently welcomes sinners who repent but as far as I am aware Blair has never apologised for lying to the British people about the war on Iraq and instructing men to die for his and Dub's personal economic benefit (job awarded to Blair by Dub as soon as he left office - Dub to be rewarded by the arms and oil industries when he leaves office).

At least we forced the liar out of office.

 

[Fiona]

Too little and far too late

 

[corplinx]

I suspect he converted for the same reason most men do. To give their spouses one less thing to nag about.

 

[a_unique_person]

While I don't think it is a good thing to have a political leader who is also religious - especially not one who asks God if he should send soldiers into battle - I'd rather see a political leader be open and honest about his faith, than be sneaky and deceitful, in order to protect his own political career.

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blah blah blah papists blah blah Rome blah blah Antichrist blah blah

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I wonder if he considered Atheist as an option when he was re-evaluating his faith?

 

[Darth Rotor]

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blah blah blah papists blah blah Rome blah blah Antichrist blah blah

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I wonder if he considered Atheist as an option when he was re-evaluating his faith?

I wonder if he considered Shinto.

DR

 

[Liszt]

Apparently (I didn't see this, but someone told me), Blair said he was a "five times a night" guy. Why hasn't he got the standard 11 children then? Has he been using evil contraceptives? It might just be a National Inquirer story or something though.

 

[corplinx]

Like most manly neo-cons, he practices the pull and spray method pioneered by John Holmes and Ron Jeremy.

 

[Liszt]

Like most manly neo-cons, he practices the pull and spray method pioneered by John Holmes and Ron Jeremy.

"pull and spray" !!!

That phrase, as opposed to, for example, "pull-out method", invites an image.

Thanks for that, corplinx

 

[Fnord]

I suspect he converted for the same reason most men do. To give their spouses one less thing to nag about.

Did he never learn to simply nod his head and say "Yes dear"?

What surprises me is that his conversion made the news at all.

 

[Mojo]

Not an entirely unexpected conversion however I would be very curious how he now reconciles his "new" faith with some of his past votes.

Or with some of his past statements:

I won't become a Catholic - Blair

Tony Blair has dismissed speculation he plans to convert to Roman Catholicism.

The prime minister, an Anglican, had reportedly expressed an interest in joining his wife Cherie and their four children in the Catholic faith.

The Blair family priest, Father Timothy Russ, told The Times newspaper Mr Blair "may well" convert.

But Mr Blair emphatically denied the story when challenged by reporters, joking: "Don't they run this once a year?"

 

[UserGoogol]

"pull and spray" !!!

That phrase, as opposed to, for example, "pull-out method", invites an image.

Thanks for that, corplinx

Hmm... it also brings to mind the even more evocative phrase "spray and pray" (which is used in the gun world, I believe) but which is highly amusing in this context.

 

[corplinx]

Hmm... it also brings to mind the even more evocative phrase "spray and pray" (which is used in the gun world, I believe) but which is highly amusing in this context.

Its actually a derivative of "pull and pray" which is the most often practiced form of birth control.

 

[Elizabeth I]

Like most manly neo-cons, he practices the pull and spray method pioneered by John Holmes and Ron Jeremy.

Or, as it was described by a patient in the family planning clinic at which I worked, "jerk and squirt."

She was astonished by our lecture on effective and not-so-effective methods of contraception, and asked, "Do you mean to tell me jerk-and-squirt don't work?"

 

[Zeuzzz]

The Blairs are also known for their New age religious tendencies.

Cherie Blair is a big fan of homeopathy for example.

found this in the guardian newspaper;

3 According to Jack Temple, Cherie Blair's 'homeopathic dowser healer', the leaves of which plant allow 'the lame to walk, the barren to conceive and the sad to smile' if, and only if, they capture the healing energies of the stars by being planted within the boundaries of his allegedly neolithic stone circle at West Byfleet near Woking?

Quite wierd! It doesn't surprise me that Tony would have equally odd religious ideas, he was always harking on about 'doing the right thing',etc.

 

[Damien Evans]

The Blairs are also known for their New age religious tendencies.

Cherie Blair is a big fan of homeopathy for example.

found this in the guardian newspaper;


Quite wierd! It doesn't surprise me that Tony would have equally odd religious ideas, he was always harking on about 'doing the right thing',etc.

Yeah, Cherie's an absolute nutter, but that's old news.

 

[KingMerv00]

I smell a new Hitchens book in the works.

 

[Mojo]

The Blairs are also known for their New age religious tendencies.

Cherie Blair is a big fan of homeopathy for example.

Her sister is a homoeopath.

 

[iAmerican]

Better late than never? The Anti-Christ's Own.

Who did not know Blair was Rome's when he allied with the 9-11-committing tool of the Anti-Christ, and Hitler's banker's homosexual draft-dodging grandson, George W. Bush?

America’s Founder was correct: To Samuel Kercheval Monticello, January 19, 1810

SIR, — Yours of the 7th instant has been duly received, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. Nothing can be more exactly and seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ.

Lee Atwater waited to make a death-bed conversion to the Anti-Christ and Rehnquist, the needed vote to unconstitutionally stop the Florida recount with the other Roman Catholics', waited to admit his Papist affiliation at his funeral.