No offense Islame but afaic Tony Blair is a religious slime ball and an anti-intellectual par excellence.
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World religions are threatened by forces both from within themselves and from the wider world, said Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, today.
“We face an aggressive secular attack from without. We face the threat of extremism from within.”
Even this, I think is clever in its own theistic worldview sort of way..
I will never understand how somebody like him was able to or even wanted to become a leader of a formally leftist party.
Me too, if he had not been a theist, he would have rivalled Portillo for the top spot. The travesty for me, and the thing I could never really come to understand, was how could someone so clever but such a strong theist.
Anyhow, enough of my man crushes, lets have some others..