VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Hair-raisingly Reverend James Jones, Lord Bishop of Liverpool and Bishop of Prisons   |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130610.html][img=images/2013/06/pic130610.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]And the big news today is that I visited one of "our" schools in Liverpool. I'll throw in some stuff about the anniversary of the nuclear test ban treaty, Kennedy, Khrushchev, the Cuban Missile Crisis and so forth, but mainly I want to talk about me visiting one of our schools.

I was in one of our sectarian schools where Catholic Christians and Protestant Christians have finally decided to get together and we ignore the fact that they are deluded papists. These schools are so well integrated that Catholic and Protestant staff even share the same toilets. Yes, that's right, there aren't even any [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3427917.stm]seperate Catholic and Protestant toilets[/url] any more.

Just think, only a few centuries ago, we were happily burning each other at the stake. Now we allow our children to actually share the same school, paid for entirely by me and the Catholic archbishop. There may still be a few who aren't comfortable with two slightly different variants of Christianity cooperating like this, but where they used to actually run the church, now they're regarded as slightly loopy.

As I watched the children happily singing Christian hymns of indoctrination, I noticed one girl from an even wronger religion. "My child," I said patronisingly. "What are you doing here? You're from an even wronger religion than the Catholics?"

She explained that she and her friends had no problem worshipping the Invisible Magic Friend in several different ways. It gives us all hope for the future, doesn't it? That people from the one true religion can live happily with all the deluded ones. That's religion for you, inserting massive cultural rifts between people, then seeking isolated examples where it hasn't quite worked.

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