VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Last 2012 Clemmies|CONTENT|Happy New Year everyone!

As we say goodbye to 2012 and we eagerly anticipate what wonderful platitudes might await us in 2013, it is time to award one last Clemmie for the year gone past. Normally this would wait until Sunday, but I want to get started on the Platitude of the Year (POTY) award next weekend.

Let us also take a moment to pause and reflect on [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry120216-154503]those who did not see the end of 2012[/url].

[url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry121206-081220]Rhidian Brooke[/url] ridiculed the &quot;Life of Pi&quot;s claim that it would make you believe in the Invisible Magic Friend. That&#039;s just silly of course. Everyone knows it&#039;s the Big Book of Magic Stuff that makes you believe in the Invisible Magic Friend. It [i]says[/i] he exists.

Once again [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry121213-080416]Lord Sacks[/url] appears in the nomination list, this time for services to candle manufacturers.

[url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry121217-083501]John Bell[/url] put in a rare appearance with a stunning response to the Connecticut school massacre. Not only did he presume to speak for atheists, what with them not being allowed to speak for themselves on Thought for the Day, not only did he admit that there&#039;s no real evidence for the existence of the Invisible Magic Friend, not only did he offer no way to reconcile such evil with a loving and merciful god, but he ended it with some inane drivel about Jesus is love or some such nonsense. 

Just when you might think John Bell had it in the bag for December, along comes [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry121221-081615]Lord Harries[/url] to dismiss those superstitious fools who thought the world was going to end thanks to an ancient Mayan prediction. The real end of the world was predicted by the New Tasty mint with the second coming of Jesus Christ. It could happen any millennia now.

[img=images/clemmie_small_crown.JPG popup=false float=left]Guest speaker, [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry121227-081136]Rev Dr Prof Sir John Polkinghorne FRS[/url] managed to squeeze just about every platitude about science and religion that there&#039;s ever been into his three minutes: how versus why, different ways of looking at truth, why is nature understandable, fine tuning - you name it, it was in there.

It&#039;s close this month, but as Scottish Susan so eloquently put it, Lord Harries&#039; contribution required &quot;a Herculean amount of doublethink.&quot; Such labours should not go unrewarded. So the Clemmie for December and the last of 2012, goes to Reverend Lord Professor Bishop Baron Reverend Lord Richard Harries.|CATEGORIES|47|IP-ADDRESS|94.168.119.214|CREATEDBY|admin|DATE|1357021205