Bashing the Bishop
The media has been full of of the high-priest of the loony Christian left's absurd outburst on the subject of Sharia Law.
Why, Rowan, why? Then it dawned on me. He is watching the USA presidential primaries and seeing the massive influence the protestant church has on politics there. There is a very good chance (God help us all) that the Christian Right's candidate will be the next President of the USA.
Rowan must be hankering after the good old days shortly after the reformation when his predecessors word was all but law; when the pilgrim fathers scooted across the pond to set up the perfect protestant nation; and when all other religions were dealt with using as much violence as they pleased. Them were the days, eh!
He is crudely using reverse psychology to wake us all up to the insanity that people, thinking as he describes, will bring about if we don't all scamper quickly to the bosom of the mother church, surely! He cannot be serious, can he?
Here, we are witnessing why the American constitution forbids the intrusion of the inevitable extremism into its legislature and why voting for the Republican in November would be a disaster for the world. We are also witnessing the frantic death throws of a outmoded, outdated cult of fear, which of course is precisely what he is suggesting we inject into our legal framework.
