Sunday, November 22, 2009

How to epically miss the point.

Times religion correspondent Ruth Gledhill penned a little missive in the Saturday edition about the BHS "don't label me" campaign. From the tone of the article it's fairly clear that Ms Gledhill thought she had scored an enormous coups, one in the eye for those self satisfied kuffar; in reality she simply encapsulated the kind of narrow minded, hypocritical, block headedness that the campaign seeks to raise conciousness about (God bless you Ruth!).



In the article Ms Gledhill asserts triumphantly that the children in the poster are the offspring of "celebrity" evangelical Christians and therefore the reason they look "happy" in the picture is evidently their Christianity, she re-quotes the father of the children who said about the shots that "the children's Christianity had shone through". From the look of the children in the picture they aren't actually children, they are babies, utterly oblivious to anything that their parents don't indoctrinate them with. The whole point of the campaign is that it doesn't matter what background the children are from, CHILDREN ARE NOT PROPERTY, this Vicars daughter from the backwaters of Staffordshire is proving precisely why such a campaign is needed.

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Yes, I read that article too. How could the glow in a toddlers' eyes come from Jesus? He would have no idea.

I find Ruth Gledhill's articles annoying. In fact, the Times is annoying but what else is there to read?

Steve Borthwick said...

E, I know what you mean and did you see that awful crap by Ed West in the Telegraph? I think I'll stick to on-line media, "quality" paper based journalism seems to be headed for the gutter along with the Mail, Sun and all the rest.