Tony Blair and God

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In a recent press conference Tony Blair was asked about his beliefs and Alastair Cambell lept in with the response, 'We Don't Talk about God' and ended the press conference there. Tony Blair if a well know christian, evangelical Anglican although there's been plenty of rumour and speculation that he might have converted to Cherie's own brand of Catholocism plus. (plus mexican rebirthing ceremonies, life consultants and other more money than sense hippy crap).

In a recent interview TB has said he was ready to answer before god for his war in iraq.

It has been put forward that the bond between Bush and Blair has been a Christians vs the infidels (be they European Secularist or Islam) and this is one of the reasons that the Catholic Aznar has been close (although not too close, mind).

The reaction in Britian has been interesting because it has long been the case that British Prime Ministers have not been too bothered with Religion, or have hidden their belief. And this is in a country where one of the nations still has an established church.

Anyway, thoughts please.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 5 May 2003 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

If he'd converted to Catholicism surely he would have listened when the Pope told him to stay the fuck away from Iraq (not his holiness' exact words, but close enough)?

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 5 May 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to know how to say "Stay the fuck away!" in 28 languages too.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 May 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the pope basically said stay the fuck away in pope talk. i havent heard a statement that strong from the vatican in my years of being catholic.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 5 May 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i kind of assume one of the reasons it's off the discussion menu is that it's exactly one of the places blair differs *most* from bush, and where he feels acutely vulnerable in re charges of inconsistency

even if he is a secret catholic, he believes in his own conscience as a bottom line (= he is a still a protestant) and in his own infallibility (= he is not xtian at all)

the general hesitation at raising all this as an issue (as it might be for example to split the coalition) is that everyone knows religious strife can lead to the nastiest most intractable kinds of civil war, and many prefer "don't ask don't tell"

(on a narrow practical level, blair coming out as a catholic wd cause havoc in the n.ireland peace process, the resolution of which i think matters more than almost anything to him, it being the one legacy he has a prayer of being thanked for by posterity — if he doesn't fuck it up...)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Tony Blair if a well know christian, evangelical Anglican

Anglican yes, evangelical no. Evangelicals wouldn't attend mass on a regular basis, let alone participate (until the local priest got ticked off for it).

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Now what?

― StanM, Saturday, 22 December 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Biggest unsurprise in a long time.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 December 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Forgive me father for I have sinned...

― whatever, Saturday, 22 December 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Rowan Williams pwned

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 22 December 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

in the end, it was the hats

http://templars.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/pope-benedict-saturno-hat.jpg

― gershy, Saturday, 22 December 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Suavus XVI

― StanM, Saturday, 22 December 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

and just in time for christmas...

― koogs, Saturday, 22 December 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Bad news for Cherie, still I suppose she'll work out how to put make-up on a black eye within time

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 22 December 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

TBH I think Cherie can take him.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 23 December 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

vile cretin
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/tony-blair-without-gods-truth-at-its-centre-no-community-can-fulfil-its-potential-1779905.html

― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 11 September 2009 10:10 (sixteen years ago)

worst cunt ever.

― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Friday, 11 September 2009 10:12 (sixteen years ago)

http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/images/2007/04/02/nedflanders.jpg

He's looking pretty smart these days though...

― Matt DC, Friday, 11 September 2009 10:16 (sixteen years ago)

worst cunt ever.

God or Tony Blair?

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2009 10:25 (sixteen years ago)

both came in on a wave of similar promises, at least god did something right in the first week.

― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Friday, 11 September 2009 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

oh I dunno Tony made the Bank of England independent and finally took d:Ream off the playlist.

http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2007/6/26/1_223046_1_9.jpg

^gawky Miliband at the back "one day this will all be mine!"

― unblapped goldmine (onimo), Friday, 11 September 2009 11:13 (sixteen years ago)

Fuck me, that's like a tru-life Where's Wally.

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2009 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

and i think that's Cameron below Blair's outstretched arm

― unban dictionary (blueski), Friday, 11 September 2009 13:25 (sixteen years ago)

haaaahaha

― a chick I wanted to pursue on OkCupid (country matters), Friday, 11 September 2009 13:35 (sixteen years ago)

lenny henry?

― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Friday, 11 September 2009 13:39 (sixteen years ago)

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