Polly Toynbee's Christmas Message

[ciphergoth]

Too good to excerpt, please read the whole thing. Propogated from palmer1984. Now with fixed link :-)

Comments

[henry_the_cow]

There are several such sentences; this is one example:

"Secularists take offence too at the way the religious paint unbelievers as poor desiccated rationalists, not only without values, but joyless, lacking a sense of mystery, devoid of awe."

This is not just a caricature of the religious, but of secularists too. I know several believers who do not "paint" me in that way. When some believers do say such things, I disagree with them, but I don't "take offence".

The fact that she makes no mention of progressivism is exactly my point.