This is a guest post from the Easter Bunny
It seems Lord Carey is alarmed by the threat of aggressive secularization.
Lord Carey said he was ”very suspicious” that behind plans for gay marriage ”there lurks an aggressive secularist and relativist approach towards an institution that has glued society”.
He added: ”The danger I believe that the Government is courting with its approach both to marriage and religious freedom is the alienation of a large minority of people who only a few years ago would have been considered pillars of society.”
Sometimes secularism does seem a shade over zealous – see this report on the support for yet more restrictions on religious dress in France. But Carey’s earlier comparisons between Christians in the UK and Jews in Nazi Germany seems ridiculous – and particularly offensive when you remember that homosexuals were also victims of the Holocaust. However, as Cranmer correctly points out, many Christians are of course being persecuted for their faith around the world today.
Giles Fraser trolls his readers in the Guardian with a weird post which begins:
I hate Jesus. Yes, you read that right. I do. I hate Jesus.
I was reminded of this rather odd story from the Commentator. For me, Easter is basically about chocolate, but Jesus comes over as a pleasant enough chap, if a bit intense. This comment from Ryan Brighton was popular:
I’d buy him a beer, reckon we’d get on.
And what I found really odd, was him being the son of God supposedly, and at no point did he say “Oh, by the way, gays? Yuck!”. One would have thought he’d have mentioned it, God supposedly disliking them so.
For a little Easter-themed comedy – here’s something from Jesus and Mo.
And finally – although bunnies play a disappointingly small role in the New Testament, I was happy to discover a very pleasing picture of a rabbit receiving gifts in this Medieval Haggadah.
