Ecumenical Eugenics
“Migration threatens the DNA of our nation”
thunders the Thunderer! Wow!
Uncharacteristically provocative journalism on the part of the staid, sober, seat of soporific journalism, or an inexplicable decline into right wing extremist rhetoric from one of our foremost liberal clergy?
Lord Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury is as unexpected a cheerleader for the far right as Gordon Brown was acting as publicity agent for Ajem Choudhary’s proposed march through Wootton Basset.
The main stream media, the liberal clergy, and left wing politicians are fast turning into the loudest voices promoting extremism, both left and right, to the sleepy general population.
How many people would have watched Question Time without the advance publicity drummed up by the media and major political figures? How many people outside of Dagenham and Barking East would have Nick Griffen’s name on the tip of their tongue without the outcry from the ever pained-Hain denouncing his votes in the European elections as a ‘sad day for democracy’? Choudhary and his group of some 20 supporters could have turned up in Wootton Bassett every day of the week and been ignored by the sensible people of that town, but the media and the politicians could not resist the bait and filled grateful column inches with their hysterical wailing.
Now George Carey has ensured that every far right politician is armed with the eugenics-lite information that Carey believes immigration is ‘threatening’ our DNA. ‘Threatening’ will turn into ‘diluting’, and the racist arguments will begin again.
Carey believes that it would be a ‘tragedy in our long history of parliamentary democracy’ if ‘a white working-class electorate […] vote[d] for a BNP Member of Parliament’. I see nothing tragic in any electorate voting for whoever they want to represent them in parliament. I see a lot more tragedy in electorates being forced by the present political system to vote for candidates selected for them by the controlling party system in order to ensure that their ‘bessie mates’ end up with a safe seat.
If Carey really believes that the BNP is incontrovertibly unacceptable – why would he be echoing their policies? Why would he even ‘accidentally’ allow himself to utter words that could be construed as eugenic? This is a man, after all, whose entire life has been based on his ability to conjure up the right words at the right time to influence the listening throng, he’s not a footballer caught on the hop by the media.
Unlike the ‘white working class’ who complain equally and volubly of immigrants of many hues and origins, Carey is quite specific as to which immigrants he wants to put a stop to. The examples he gives of unwanted immigrants are those who “immediately establish their own tribunals to apply Sharia, rather than make use of British civil law” – they are “deeply socially divisive”. Just Muslim immigrants then Carey? Selecting immigrants on religious grounds is less discriminatory than selecting them on the basis of their colour?
It seems that Carey is willing to extend the broad arms of liberal welcome to Ukrainian rapists and Polish plumbers alike, Jamaican Drug runners and Nigerian Engineering students – but a hint of the Caliphate diluting his power base and he’s borrowing the BNP clothes and preaching eugenics.
It was Carey who promoted John Sentamu to lead the diocese in Birmingham, a popular move with those who believe that the African arm of the Christian Church may be the saviour of the Church of England. It is hardly surprising that with the influx of African clergy has come an influx of African Christian values – a profoundly homophobic stance – and an intense dislike of Muslims, especially amongst those clergy whose country of origin is Nigeria, a deeply divided country. Carey successfully blocked the acceptance of open homosexuality within the church, he has fiercely opposed an equal age of consent and even employment rights for lesbians and gay men. He condemned legal rights for gay couples (including next-of-kin access).
This is also the man who said he was proud of Britain’s leading role in arms manufacturing and whose most compassionate words were his calls for the release of Chilean fascist dictator General Pinochet.
Carey’s hypocrisy extends beyond a fear that ‘ghettos will be established’, for he condemns the Muslims for their desire to establish Sharia laws – but has never objected to the Beth Din courts of Judaism. He has encompassed the introduction of women priests – deeply offensive to many within the Church of England, whilst refusing to allow those of a homosexual persuasion to live their life openly. He said nothing when Nick Griffin was condemned for calling Islam a ‘wicked religion’ and yet now he is openly stating that Christianity is in some way morally superior to nasty old Islam. Would this be the Old Testament eye for an eye, homosexuality is a sin, women are men’s property, executing non believers, heretics, and witches Church of England?
It is what Christianity was all about for around 1000 years until it was abandoned in favour of social democracy and forgiveness sometime in the Victorian era. The current happy clappy Christianity Church of England with closeted gay and female clergy in their pretty frocks, borrowing the far-right’s anti-gay, anti-Muslim rhetoric is quite a new concept is it not?
Jesus wept!
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January 10, 2010 at 09:12 -
Isn’t this man also proposing that in future all immigration should be limited to christians only because, after all, the UK is a christian country?
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January 10, 2010 at 09:46
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January 10, 2010 at 09:35 -
As I have said many times before, the BNP are in no danger of winning seats at a General Election.
True, they won two seats at last year’s Euro jobby, but those elections are fought under a PR system, and in a situation where there is a very low turnout, even a relatively small number of votes can be enough – in percentage terms – to win a seat. The actual number of votes received by the BNP candidates was lower than in the Euro election five years earlier – it’s just that the turnout was lower still, so their percentage went up.
Of course, it would be a little unfair of me to point out that if the so-called ‘major’ parties offered ordinary decent people something actually worth voting for, the BNP would be dead in the water……..
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January 10, 2010 at 09:48
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January 10, 2010 at 11:33 -
I’m a fan of this blog but I’m not sure I understand what points you are trying to make in this post.
Consider this sentence:
[Carey] said nothing when Nick Griffin was condemned for calling Islam a -
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January 10, 2010 at 12:04 -
This is a post-Christian country.
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January 10, 2010 at 13:18 -
By what metric do we measure how “Christian” the UK is?
Regular attendance? Well that doesn’t work does it? Even in Cafflick vs Proddie obsessed Scotland and NI Church attendance is laughably low.
So Carey derives his right to speak for the non-Muslim population at large through a soppy inclination to support the home team because our forbears did? That’s about as tenuous a claim as Gordon’s right to be PM.
Religion is as relevant to the day to day life your average member of the UK populous as the culinary preferences of the dung beetle. Why do we give this man publicity?
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January 10, 2010 at 13:24
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January 10, 2010 at 14:38 -
And a license to sell alcohol?
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January 10, 2010 at 14:40
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January 10, 2010 at 16:34 -
Post Christian society is correct. Might I also say that it helps to make informed comment IF you have an understanding of the various theologies and social histories as to what and who influence religions outside of the divine (rather than human doctrines) which have been grossly mis- interperated and mis -represented since the beginning of their various dates of comencement. Just because someone is ordained, elected or self proclaimed into a position of authority does’nt mean they speak anything near the truth of the original message. These disciples should know better, as should those who deliberately choose to remain ignorant but feel they must foist their comments on everyone else as well. I’m for free speech ; I’m just not impressed by b*llsh*t.
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January 10, 2010 at 19:19 -
It isn’t only Islamic immigrants changing once predominant British communities but the entire turd world influx.
Being up to the neck in the ‘brown stuff’ (people as well as excrement), I have less and less compassion towards those who seek asylum here, even residency, due to the fact that most just see us as a lax nation, and who would blame them when our very own establishment deems our own flag “offensive” while promote their culture as “equal”?
The peasants no longer go Church for it no longer provides necessary guidance, instead focusing too much on forgiveness while forgetting all about retribution. Some acts can never be forgiven, like the deliberate lies that have seen Britain become nothing more than a dumping ground for extremists who wish to cause us as much grief as possible.
(More for Polaris) Still, this is a Christian Country due to it being a land based on Christian laws and values. Laws that have sadly become ever more draconian to help “community cohesion” and Values that have been constantly perverted by those in power to gain leverage.
So until we find some better spiritual philosophy, we should do our very best to stay a Christian Country.
And as for any of those Islamic nutzis who make it plain knowledge that their goal is to simply antagonize the British populace (for an overthrow is impossible) should be exiled onto a specially built island off the coast of Scotland to live out the remainder of their days.
For if this isn’t nipped in the bud, it may just flower and one day, we may just end up with the Islamic City of Bradford or the Rastafarian Borough of Camberwell. If the Government continues to promote this multicultural bs, the fragmentation of society is a given, not an if. Say it can’t happen? Well, that’s what that said in Lebanon.
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January 10, 2010 at 19:46 -
I enjoy reading the posts on this site and it is plain that amid the shrewd observations there is an underlying anarchic mood that manifests itself as an advanced form of ‘gallows humour’. Long may it continue! The mainstream media can no longer be trusted to give us impartial and responsible journalism and such is their collective myopia that they are unable to see the herd of elephants in the room. Power to your elbows, ladies and gentlemen. You are needed as never before.
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January 10, 2010 at 20:03
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January 12, 2010 at 07:37 -
The archbishop (unsurprisingly) knows nothing of genetics. There is more genetic variation between members of a race than there is between races.
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