When last week David Cameron revealed that he hopes his daughter will go to a Church of England school, his aides rushed to say that he attends Sunday worship in Kensington not as a ploy to help her chances but out of genuine religious conviction. I would be more reassured to hear that the Tory leader goes to church because that is what it takes to get a child into the best of state schools, not because he is a believer.
That is from the Times Online where former MP and now "media personality" Michael Portillo does the old "I'm Not A Bigot Because I Denounce Christian Extremism As Well As Islamic Extremism" dance. It's a little, politically correct soft shoe often indulged in by "media personalities" that luckily doesn't actually require the existence of any Christian extremism or violence. Who needs it, not when you have history to fall back upon. Waay back. Say the Sixteenth century. For no praying man or even church attendee is safe when Portillo shows the ghastly similarities between Mary (Bloody Mary) Tudor and Tony (As Yet No Epithet) Blair. Or the deadly church door darkening David Cameron. Bush too is obviously prone to this fanaticism what with his having once used the word crusade in a speech.
Read the final paragraph as Michael lays awake worrying over the auto-de-fe in future.
It would be good to know from Cameron that for him going to church is just a metaphor for wanting to be a good man and a good leader, and that he hears no voices, receives no divine instructions and looks only for the judgment of his fellow citizens. We could then sleep more easily at night.
Some people spend their whole lives looking for something to believe. Others get paid to write for Times Online
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