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Post by tickingmask on Jun 15, 2017 20:15:14 GMT
Isn't that just politics though? If people have a position they're trying to hide the media tries to force it out of them. If people don't like that position, they vilify that politician for it. Again May and Corbyn hardly had an easier time of things in that regard. The idea that this is something that would only be done to Christianity-based views just doesn't add up. Possibly, although usually the position the media attempts to force people to reveal is usually related to some position they have adopted in the past, or something relevant to their political outlook (rather than their theological one) or some situation where they might be accused of being hypocritical or self-interested. For example, if somebody asked Theresa May a propos of nothing much at all: "How often do you masturbate?" three times during a news program interview and she refused to give a straight answer, should she later get panned by the social media and vilified for being sexually repressed or something equally ridiculous? Feel free to shoot that down as a bad analogy, but that's how I perceive the Farron situation. By the way, don't get me wrong: my concerns are not so much about targeted persecution against Christians - I've no doubt Christians are perfectly capable of looking after themselves and giving as good as they get - but that we appear to be living in a deeply intolerant new society where any percieved deviation from the new orthodoxy is to be outed and condemned at every opportunity and the inquisitorial mindset is still alive and kicking. Do you think I'm being melodramatic? Take a long hard look at a lot of the posts on this thread and tell me you're not just a little bit concerned! |
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