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Perhaps, instead of Iran having to go to all the bother of developing nuclear capabilities, we should just give them some of our nukes? We’ve got plenty going spare. It’s the Christian thing to do. Giving our armaments to Israel has worked so well, after all. If they’re our friends, then we should give our enemies twice as much military hardware. That’s what Jesus would have done.
I’m in one of those “cannot be fucking arsed with fucking Christians” moods. In short: 1) Jesus was one of many people, before and after him, to speak for forgiveness and against retribution but 2) Christian tribalism has been the source of much of the conflict that in turn required reconciliatory processes and 3) a Christian nation with Christian leadership and Christians with eschatological aspirations lobbying them has provided much of the momentum behind the aggressions against Iraq and in the Palestinian territories, as well as the confrontational undiplomacy levelled at Iran. This is all said far better and in far more detail in a comment made by ‘tony’ on a Platitude of the Day open thread. It starts: “Barak Obanana is shortly to be president of somewhere quite important…”, and although I’m not too sure about the choice of presidential moniker, it certainly pulls Cliff’s flimsy thoughts apart.
All I really ask of you Mark Damazer is that you allow some people who have read some other books to give us something more to think about in a morning. Due to the inherent limitations and inevitable repetitiveness of Thought for the Day’s current format, it has become nothing more than a barricaded cottage of regurgitated mediocrity amid an otherwise flourishing metropolis of mind food. Don’t you realise the pitiful irony of the fact that Thought for the Day has become the only slot on the Today programme that doesn’t give us anything to think about?