VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Dauntingly Reverend Lord Professor Bishop Baron Reverend Lord Richard Harries, Baron Pentregarth, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Baron, Bishop, Professor, Lord...  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)

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The [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22542207]EU is in the news[/url]. We Christians created the European Union. The word "Christian" is mentioned literally once in the [url=http://www.eurotreaties.com/eurotexts.html#rometreaty]Treaty of Rome[/url], in the form of Mr Christian Pineau, French foreign minister.

It's all part of the Invisible Magic Friend's plan to create bigger and bigger political organisations. He started off giving us families, then tribes, working our way up to city states, nation states, empires and finally the EU and the UN.

There are problems, however. Certain global corporations and financial institutions are not under the control of divinely mandated political institutions. We can see this in the fact that not a single Church of England bishop is currently the CEO of a FTSE 100 company. This disgraceful state of affairs makes globalisation a Bad Thing. 

Globalisation could be a Good Thing if it led us to be as nice to all human beings as we are to our fellow Europeans. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just get along?

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