UK – The New Labour Leader Ed Miliband Is An Atheist – Thank gOd!
Posted by Phil Ferguson on September 30th, 2010 – 1 Comment – Posted in atheistsFrom the Telegraph.
The Labour leader’s atheism puts him in stark contrast to his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, for whom religion was a central part of their lives.
In an interview on Radio 5 Live, Mr Miliband was asked by presenter Nicky Campbell: ”Do you believe in God?”
The Labour leader replied: ”I don’t believe in God personally, but I have great respect for those people who do.
Yeah. Sounds way better than Blair….
Mr Blair has confirmed since leaving power that his religious faith was ”hugely important” to his premiership. He said he did not speak publicly about his belief while in office out of fear voters would think him a ”nutter”.Since leaving Downing Street, he has converted to Roman Catholicism, and in his recent memoir, A Journey, he wrote: ”I have always been more interested in religion than politics.”
He is a NUTTER!
Maybe the UK can get away from all of the nasty faith schools.
Ed said he believed most faith schools did a ”fantastic” job in educating children, but added he thought it best for children of different backgrounds to be educated together.
Any readers from the UK? What do you think?
But I also think he has all the...
Any readers from the UK? What do you think?
In a word ‘Meh’. It’s not a bad thing, of course, but he is only leader of the opposition, and atheism aside it would not be good for him to get anywhere near pulling the levers of power. It’s thanks to the government he was part of and policies he supported and still supports that we’re now pissing upwards of 50 billion quid a year away just to pay the interest on our national debt. That’s a lot of money we could have been spending on stuff worth having instead.
Plus, Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats and our current Deputy Prime Minister, is an atheist too, so this isn’t exactly breaking new ground for us.