http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1080621,00.html

"Gay people should "reorientate" themselves by seeking psychiatric help, the bishop of Chester said yesterday, reigniting the furious row about attitudes to homosexuality within the Church of England"

"Alan Wardle, a spokesman for the gay rights group Stonewall, reacted angrily to Dr Forster's remarks. "Homosexuality was declassified as a medical condition more than 30 years ago," he said. "I'd prefer the bishop should stick to sorting out the problems in his own church." "

The Church of England's, and the Vatican's, recent ignorance and hatred have all made me want to start doing stuff for Stonewall again.

Tags: christianity, church of england, fundamentalism, homophobia, stonewall, the guardian, vatican
Current Mood: aggravated
Listening To: "Team UVR" by Ultraviolence

Bye bye Ian Duncan Smith!

There is a cartoon in The Guardian today of a woman saying, "It's sad, just when people knew who he was!"

Tags: conservatives, ian duncan smith, politics, the guardian

According to The Guardian, 71% of Americans still believe in Hell! I thought it would be lower, but USA is always surprising in it's religiosity when compared to Europe.

In comparison 32% of British people believe in Hell, and that is itself quite high for a European country.

The Guardian article noted that whilst that many Americans believed in hell, only 0.5% believed that they would actually go there.

Universalism is the belief in heaven/paradise/nirvana but not in hell (it is therefore the belief that all people will be saved, or that all people will eventually find enlightenment). Interesting Christianity started out (for it's first 100 years) as universalist:
http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/universalism.html

Tags: hell, religion, the guardian, universalism, usa
Current Mood: tired
Listening To: "Tenebrarum Oratuori" by Moonspell