Here but for the Grace of God comes god

The Laughing Cavalier

Now, more than ever, I'm convinced he's round the bend. Like everything else he has twisted his view of Christianity (and Catholicism) to coincide with his own thinking.

jaydeeaitch

‘does God’ unashamedly these days = guilty conscience as far as I am concerned.

Andy Leeds

Never trust a convert.

Michael Hooper

When I read this article I almost stuck my index finger down my throat...this man B-lair makes me feel so nauseous

EyeSee

Erm, since when was self agrandisement part of Christian ideals? Which bit haven't I paid attention to? I remember the Devil sorting out things, in a material way, for those prepared to sell their soul. I also remember another prophet who, unable to gain followers and so hiding in the desert, came out and was strangely popular all of a sudden. He then used his new found popularity to make war on those who persecuted him previously. Maybe my morality is skewed and I misheard at school, that it is the lying, money chasing, insincere braggards who shall inherit the earth rather than the meek. Maybe the true Pope (Blair) can put me straight. So, should I go to one of his 'lectures' to find out? Er, no.

smurf

Oh dear Lord, indeed. A lecture from St Tony of Basra is all that we need....

You should cross-post this to the 'Faith Based' blog as a refreshing change to the utter garbage Mr Hobson spouts over there.

Jeremy

Oh Christ. It's the Messiah. Again.

"According to yesterday’s Londoner’s Diary, Tony Blair is bringing his religious lecture ‘Faith and Globalisation’ to Britain."

Shouldn't that be "Faith and Accepting Well-Paid Sinecures for Favours Done to The Americans"?

"His talks have been a huge hit in America..."

Quelle surprise! He always was more their man than ours...if you catch my meaning.

"In what appears to be a re-enactment of the Pilgrimage of Grace, recent Catholic convert Blair will progress south, spreading his word. Who knows, perhaps he will proselytise all the way to Brussels in time for the Lisbon treaty’s ratification?"

Yes. And then in an act of the most exalted self-sacrifice he will become El Presidente-for-life with an enormous bung, to boot. That man's avarice knows no bounds...

I expect the Americans are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of "their man" becoming the President of Europe. Ha-haaaaa!!

David Ossitt

The poor benighted war monger is trying to save his own soul; his, is a hopeless cause, he is doomed to be hated and loathed by the many and be an object of deep embarrassment to the rest.

I, have a deep and constant dislike of the man.

Barabbas

Will he also walk on water, do the trick with the loaves and fishes and proclaim "Suffer the EU presidency to come unto me" ?

Perhaps he could throw some Pharasees outta the temple. It might make a refreshing change.

As you say, "it's all extremely good PR".
Talking of cricket : the arrogance of the man knows no boundaries.

Favourite Italians

There are unfortunately elements in Catholicism which do not sit well with the tenets of Democracy. Blair's suthoritarianism and hatred of due process are but two of these.

As a cradle Catholic I now restrict myself to a pleasure in the music, culture, architecture and art.

There's really no need to go the whole hog from Tuscany to Totalitarianism.

God is better pleased with awe and humility.

TGF UKIP

And talking about someone who really does deserve crucifying .......!

style guru

Sackcloth and ashes, by Turnbull and Asser.

William Hill

EU presidency followed by canonization ?
Truly this great man shall some day be sitting at the right hand of the Almighty.
5/4 on.

jon dee

I hope the Chilcott committee see him as a mere mortal with a confession to make.

EC

I'd like to see him try and pull this one off in Carlisle!

Laughing Larry

The man is a bounder.

mac

"I imagine he will talk in halls largely empty of students."

Probably there'll be few students, but there will be no shortage of docile admirers: "Tony's people" will stage a rapturous rally for the great shaman. They'll replicate what was done in 10 Downing Street - when history first began in 1997 - as the gilded couple progressed royally and triumphantly past the carefully choreographed flag-wavers and attendant TV cameras to take up residence. And no surprise, of course, that the first venue is Durham. There are platoons of comrades to bus-in from the Labour clubs in nearby Trimdon, Sedgefield, Peterlee, Easington and perhaps from slightly further afield in AlanMilburnland and the ArmstrongFamilyFiefdom. The publicity shots will reflect his glory . . .

And his snake-oil will be lapped up: "Aye, that was a canny neet oot for us aal, like, seein' Toe-ny; 'ee's still gorrit, the knaas; aah divven't knaa why 'ee isn't still prime minister, we'd aal be much better off if 'ee was."

Battle 2807

David Ossitt: he cannot save his own soul. Maybe this is a part of the Gospel that he doesnt understand (a part among many parts that this 'christian' man doesnt understand).
I dont believe that Blair has read the bible. I dont believe that he is a christian.
He is trying to tell the Pope to get modern....on gays, and stuff.
He may well be the anti-christ (many christians think he is) but he certainly is NOT a christian.

Battle 2807

Furthermore, I have to say that your headline made me laugh out loud.
The man is surely illusional (I know that isnt the word - what am I looking for? delusional? help me out here fellow coffehousers).
What he is not, is god.
Whether or not he is 'doing' god these days, I rather wonder whether God is doing Tony Blair.

Moraymint

The sooner we get rid of this sort of dangerous, medieval nonsense the better. I see nothing happening in the world today where I can point and say, "Thank goodness they've got religion over there, otherwise there'd be trouble ...".

Indeed, I seem to observe that the opposite is true.

Does Blair really think that this sort of guff is likely to make the world a better place? My guess is this is more about Blair's galactic ego and pathological desire to be in the spotlight than anything to do with furthering the wellbeing of mankind.

R King

Is David Ike appearing with him?

Battle 2807

William Hill: sittingg at the right hand of the Almighty?....
You forget, one cannot spin one's way into heaven.
I would imagine that Mr Blair will find himself in a much hotter place.

Peter Mc

What happened to the Pilgrimmage of Grace? Sold out by the Duke of Norfolk. We could have had that Henry VIII out. I'm not sure that a Catholic-ruled England would have been any better than what we got though.

Mark C

I'm more interested in your comment that "When I was at university, the only people who could fill debating clubs and the like were Keira Knightley and Nick Griffen".

I had assumed from your previous posts that you were still at school and on some placement scheme. It is, I think, more alarming that your contemporaries (how old are you?) are so shallow and yet at a university (which?)

TrevorsDen

Going round pretending to be a good catholic will help when it comes to running for that nice little earner - the 'presidency' of the EU.

Battle 2807

I feel bad about my last comment. As a christian, I know that God IS doing Tony Blair. As He is doing every one of us. God loves this man, and He loves every one of us. Mr Blair is a sinner, as are we all - and yet God loves us. (quite why, is another question).
When God chooses you (and that is how it happens - you do not choose God, he chooses you) your whole outlook on life, the universe, politics etc, changes.
Who am I to say that God has not chosen Tony Blair? Because Mr Blair does not behave as someone whom God has chosen. For a million reasons - I leave that to you lot.

Keith S

well like it not the man took us to war against Islamic Fanatics, so his God must be powerful ?? Right ?? I mean Money is Power. Right ??

Kerie

Please do not sully the memory of the Pilgrimage of Grace by using it as a comparator for this foul, mendacious, sordid little man.

The Pilgrimage was an uprising against the despotism and dictatorship of Henry VIII by the peoples of the North (mainly but not solely the persecuted Catholic remnant), not an exercise in self-aggrandisement by a politician who never did anything other than ruin this country.

Reg

Anyone who uses faith to promote a cause is suspect. Faith is a personal matter and should remain private.

Tommy Blithe

Mark C,

It isn't alarming that students at Oxford dismiss self-aggrandizers such as David Ike and Nick Griffen - through non-attendance and outspoken criticism. I, like Blackburn (who I've always thought is a smug, slef-satisified pillock), was there. It's only alarming if you sympathise with those gentleman.

Also, I find it bizarre that you are the only person here who doesn't criticize Blair - have we an admirer?

Tommy Blithe

Maximillion Clifford

Well... someone has to fill the vacuum left behind by the other Wacko.

David Blackburn

Cheers Tommy,

Dinner?

King Tut

you imagine that God is on his side? Wrong side. He sold his soul the devil long ago.

"the luck o' the devil" more like...

Jeremy

David,

You don't think Blair's doing a Caesar do you? I mean if he gets made El Presidente de Europa....does that come with immunity from prosecution attached?

If so, then I reckon he will play the I'm-too-saintly-to-have-done-anything-wrong card for all it's worth - right up until the moment he can make the hoped-for hop into the President of Europe's seat and get with it the immunity-from-prosecution card (plus the salary, of course). Before, that is, his political past catches up with him.

I reckon that our Mr Blair has got something worth running away from, and he knows it...

Alan

David Icke doesn't claim to be a messiah, and his lectures sell-out auditoriums in hours. Do your research before you slander my favorite author David icke.

Circuitous Cant

"...recent Catholic convert Blair..."

How much malice could we pack into just four words?

Tiberius

David: I've tried the dinner invitation thing with Verity, but you don't even get a reply.

Tankus

Is Blair one of Ickes lizards ?

Moira

There are two articles today, explaining much about Tony Blair and Europe, one is in the Economist and the other in The European Tribune. As a result the signatures from across Europe are just flooding in to the 'Stop Blair eu Petition' at an ubelievable rate. Tony is defiitely not the favourite with the petitioners, no matter what the current Leaders have to say on the subject.

Hubert Sheevers

When one hears this preachy kind of arrogant madness emanating from Blair it is time to circle the wagons. Alongside his Mary, the Blairs are as mad as hatters; greed, war criminality, sharp practise; a nice little earner on the Bristol flats etc.
Shouldn't he be following Jesus' example and be advocating that people like him (Tony Blair) should be drummed out of the Temple, pronto.
We were mad to elect him, and now we are stuck with another Labour fanatic. Is this not a kind of hell?

Minnie Ovens

When I first went to the States I remember sitting in my hotel room, fascinated by this person who was telling the congregation that the old piston engined aircraft couldn't hack his busy travel schedule anymore so could they please donate towards the 707 he had just acquired.
I don't know why Blair even touched British politics, he could have swanned off down to Nashvile and set up his own church and made millions.
Well, on second thoughts, maybe not such a good idea as the Feds are so much better than us at trapping Missionary types who cook the books.

Verity

Minnie Ovens - Incorrect. The type of people who would respond by sending contributions for a preacher's plea for a 747 are not the people who would understand a word Tony Blair was saying, because of his funny accent. He can only operate among the pretentious prat layer of American society. And I don't recall him ever going to Canada or Australia to give his famed after-dinner talks. I wonder why. No takers?

Verity

A glilmpse of the portrait of Dorian Gray in the attic.

2trueblue

Blair had plenty of opportunity to show us all what integrity was about during his time as PM. Not much else to add really.

Alex Hughes

I've gone right off the man since he got 'faith'. It's all a delusion and a detestable lie.

ray

Blair is not doing God, he thinks he is! Wearing his war mask he sent men to die in Iraq at the behest of another religious nut. He sought a falklands type victory to boost his inflated ego, forgetting that Margaret Thatcher sent men into action to defend her countrymen, not to die for political kudos.

The same man instigated an enquiry on so called bloody Sunday just to ingratiate himself with the Irish Catholic government, the church and The IRA.

Men are still dying thanks to our Our futile, American instigated war in in Afghanistan. Blair's hands are covered in blood but does he care, I think not; a few more Hail Marys should do it. I will not squander men's lives, I will not squander men's lives - -