Blog entries

February 2011

Egypt's Pro-democracy Protestors

Notice how the BBC describe the Egyptians as "anti-government protestors" and not as "pro-democracy protestors." The reason they are not dignified by use of the more accurate "pro-democracy protestors" is because the dictator Mubarak is seen as an ally. This is why the news media will not call Mubarak a dictator either. (When he’s deposed, they might start to do so retrospectively, but not now). Now Western leaders and pundits are loudly deploring "despicable violence in Egypt". But we never heard a peep from them during the thirty years of daily violence wreaked in Egyptian torture cells by Mubarak’s secret police, the dreaded Mukhabarat. There was nary a mention about daily violence and torture of pro-democracy activists whenever ex-PM Blair took his anuual summer holidays in Egypt, a favoured guest of the favoured dictator topping up his tan.

An Ungrateful Church

It seems deuced ungrateful of the church to be against gays since Christianity’s popularity rests on the achievements of Alexander the Great. Had this gay warrior not, by bloodthirsty war, extended his Hellenic empire into the Middle East, then the Gospels would not have been written in Greek. And if the Gospels had not been written in Greek, then they would not have been translated into Latin, and become, in the fourth century AD, the offical religion of the Roman Empire, under Constantine the Great. (At which point, as German theologian Hans Kuhn puts it,"Christianity went from being a persecuted to a persecuting religion.") Part of that persecution is directed against men of the same sexuality as Alexander, of course, even though he rescued the church from languishing as an obscure Levantine cult. It can surely not be because of Alexander’s addiction to violence that the Church ignores its debt to the Macedonian, since the Church never fails to bless any war that power desires to wage, no matter how defenceless the enemy.