Vote for this year's leading enemy of reason

[catsmate]

In the UK at least. The New Humanist Bad Faith Award are now open for voting.
This years candidates are:

1. Ann Widdecombe: no explanation necessary for anyone who's in the UK
2. Baroness Warsi: god bothering Conservative minister
3. Pastor Terry Jones: Qu'ran not burning xian bigot
4. Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi: misogynistic Irianian cleric who blamed immodestly dressed women for earthquakes
5. Cardinal Walter Kasper: of "a new and aggressive atheism" infamy
6. Prince Charles: no explanation necessary for anyone who's in the UK
7. Lauren Booth: Islamic convert, general idiot. Also Cherie Blair's sister.
8. Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed

You can vote, and comment, here.

Any predictions?

 

[lionking]

Shouldn't Prince Charles be given an award in perpetuity so that he doesn't have to be nominated each year?

ETA So many worthy winners in this list I'm having difficulty choosing.

 

[Dragonrock]

I think Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi should be given a pass simply because boobquake was so much fun to read about.

 

[pchams]

Stephen Harper: PM Canada
Re-born again christian, war-monger, eco-terrorist.

 

[Sledge]

Oops, never mind.

 

[Aitch]

Shouldn't Prince Charles be given an award in perpetuity so that he doesn't have to be nominated each year?

A sort of Lifetime Non-Achievement Award?

 

[SanityGap]

Spoilt for choice with that selection.

 

[Two Toed Sloth]

Had trouble choosing between Sayeed and Sedighi.

Boobquake was awesome, however Sayeed's comment of no possibility of rape within marriage swings it for me.

 

[Agatha]

Hmm, difficult choice; all of them would be worthy winners. Unfortunately, I think most of them would see a win in this poll as a positive accolade.

 

[hgc]

In the UK at least. The New Humanist Bad Faith Award are now open for voting.
This years candidates are:

1. Ann Widdecombe: no explanation necessary for anyone who's in the UK

Is Ann Widdecombe that annoying prat who, alongside a drooling idiot Nigerian Catholic bishop, debated Hitch and Fry on the question of whether the RCC is a force for good in the world?

What did she do this year to earn the nomination? Is there Youtube video?

 

[Agatha]

I've now voted, for Sayeed.

 

[brodski]

Is Ann Widdecombe that annoying prat who, alongside a drooling idiot Nigerian Catholic bishop, debated Hitch and Fry on the question of whether the RCC is a force for good in the world?

yes, she's a late convert to Catholicism, having left the Church Of England when the began to ordain women.

 

[catsmate]

Is Ann Widdecombe that annoying prat who, alongside a drooling idiot Nigerian Catholic bishop, debated Hitch and Fry on the question of whether the RCC is a force for good in the world?

What did she do this year to earn the nomination? Is there Youtube video?

That's her. Her nomination is principally for her support of creationism [warning Daily Express] but there are "lifetime award" elements too.

 

[Elizabeth I]

Damn! That means I can't nominate most of the members of the Texas Board of Education.

(I love being a Texan and living in Texas, I just don't know when so many people started to cherish ignorance.)

 

[hgc]

That's her. Her nomination is principally for her support of creationism [warning Daily Express] but there are "lifetime award" elements too.

Creationism among Roman Catholics is curious phenomenon, but possibly instructive about the nature of Creationism. The RCC is very hierarchical, and much store is put in the authority of the top man, who is said to have a direct line to Heavenly authority. So when Catholics, such as Widdecombe (convert) or Pat Buchanan (born into) espouse the anti-evolution line, how do they reconcile their break with papal authority in this particular case?

 

[Marduk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17021831
looks like Baroness Warsi is catching up at the rear

Britain is under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation", a cabinet minister has warned.

Religion is being "sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere", Conservative co-chairwoman Baroness Warsi wrote in an article for the Daily Telegraph.

The Muslim peer said Europe needed to become "more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity".

She will also highlight the issue in a speech at the Vatican later.

"I will be arguing that to create a more just society, people need to feel stronger in their religious identities and more confident in their creeds," she wrote in the Telegraph.

"In practice this means individuals not diluting their faiths and nations not denying their religious heritages."

I don't know what shes on about, shes a muslim "people need to feel stronger in their religious identities and more confident in their creeds," apparently thats not applicable if youre not a christian, I'd feel insulted if I was as retarded as she is, just for this next chance I get I'm voting labour, at least theyre not intent on returning me to the 15th C

 

[Matt the Poet]

Too late, alas, to add Alain de Botton to the mix. His latest ‘atheists need something to believe in too!’ schtick is surely more insidiously destructive of rational thought than any number of blaring bigots…

 

[Multivac]

Has to be Ann Widdecombe.

 

[Bad vibe]

Baroness Warsi and Cameron should be up there too, his were a Christian nation speech deserves a nomination.

 

[Halfcentaur]

Creationism among Roman Catholics is curious phenomenon, but possibly instructive about the nature of Creationism. The RCC is very hierarchical, and much store is put in the authority of the top man, who is said to have a direct line to Heavenly authority. So when Catholics, such as Widdecombe (convert) or Pat Buchanan (born into) espouse the anti-evolution line, how do they reconcile their break with papal authority in this particular case?

I wondered that myself. Jon Paul endorsed the theory of evolution, I've wondered what Ratzinger has said on the matter, if he has.