Friday, December 15, 2006

my flying spaghetti monster is better than your flying spaghetti monster

Seems that certain people are discovering the freedom of religious expression may involve belief systems that they don't like. From The Daily Mail, who have once again decided that they're in favour of freedom to choose provided everyone does as the Daily Mail tells them:

BA [British Airways] advisers have also warned that if the company allows staff to wear traditional Christian symbols then non-religious emblems would be permitted.

The suggestion that New Age crystals could be seen in the same light as the cross is likely to provoke fresh outrage over the airline's political correctness.

At this stage, there's absolutely nothing that can be done in the total sphere of human experience which cannot be described disparagingly as politically correct: it's a term almost totally void of meaning.

So, when we heard it was unfair for Christians to be discriminated against by a uniform code, it was only unfair for Christians: it wasn't a principled stance about freedom and it's entirely fair and equitable to ban other "religious" observances.

So why should one set of irrational beliefs be favoured over another? When one set isn't the proper kind of woo-woo:
Miss Eweida said: "I am only interested in religion. Crystals are not religious. Why are they putting conditions on Christianity?

"Why do they allow Muslims to wear the hijab. Christianity has never breached anyone's human rights. Jesus never killed anyone."

Well, I'm glad that's all wrapped up.

3 comments:

Ithika said...

No, I think "politically correct" is utterly meaningless; certainly now if it ever wasn't. File it alongside socialist, conservative, feminist etc.

queenspanky said...

One doesn't dare point out the wars started in the name of Christianity - or was that power, land, money? - to Miss Eweida. Silly bint that she is.

GB said...

"Christianity has never breached anyone's human rights."

Well, that's got to be the most untrue statement I've ever seen in my life.

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