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Britain’s new education chief is Leftist but ...“If the paranoid left of British letters are to be believed, schools in Britain could soon become very frightful places indeed. The new education secretary, Ruth Kelly, you see, has promised to bring more discipline to the classroom, and she is a member of a mysterious religious cult that requires no small measure of it. She is said to regularly attend rituals involving candles, funny clothes and archaic languages. She willingly hands over part of her hard-earned salary to a central authority and presumably has agreed to abide by ancient edicts handed down by a high power. She may even, like some members of the cult, forgo fun things or endure minor discomfort to help herself empathize with her redeemer. The cult is called Roman Catholicism. Ms. Kelly, a 36-year-old mother of four named to Tony Blair’s cabinet in December, has committed the unpardonable sin of admitting that she has a belief system to which she prefers to adhere. After weeks of scary headlines about this belief system, Ms. Kelly admitted in an interview with the BBC’s David Frost earlier this month that she receives “spiritual guidance” from a Catholic lay organization known as Opus Dei. Everyone, of course, knows all about Opus Dei from “The DaVinci Code.” They know that its adherents, backed by legions of albino monks wearing spiky garters, fiendishly keep Christianity’s deepest secrets, murdering nuns and anyone else who threatens to expose them. The hysteria in the British commentariat about Ms. Kelly’s ascendance into the Blair cabinet was about as restrained as Dan Brown’s bestseller was accurate about Opus Dei, an organization of conservative Catholics whose 85,000 members take their faith more seriously than the average once-a-weeker. The Scotsman newspaper found someone from a support group for cult victims to wonder aloud whether Opus Dei adherents would soon be recruiting in Britain’s schools. The Times tracked down scientists who professed to be horrified by the prospect of Ms. Kelly’s religious beliefs interfering with stem-cell and other “vital” research. The Independent even created a new word for the movement: Catholofascists… Anyone with firm convictions scares the relativists who dominate public discussion in Britain these days. Anyone who professes to know the difference between right and wrong, between good and evil, seems to scare them. Unless, that is, those firm convictions are founded in a faith other than Christianity. If Ms. Kelly were a Sufi Muslim, say, her belief system would surely be of little concern to the commentariat. Or, more accurately, it would be a cause for celebration. There surely would be no snide asides about buttock-thwacking pilgrims en route to Mecca or dervishes whirling down the halls of 10 Downing St…” Excerpt from the Wall St Journale Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 04:44 PM in Liberalism & the Left Comments:No comments yet.
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