Atheists Get “Thought For The Day” On BBC
After years in the wilderness, atheists are to have their soap box alongside Britain’s religious bigwigs on Radio 4’s Thought For The Day.
Yes, the politically-correct mandarins at the Beeb are planning to offer the anti-God lobby the opportunity to preach on the long-running God slot, which airs during the Today programme. There have been some predictable responses from both sides of the religious divide.
‘It strikes me that the secularists predominate in the other two hours and 55 minutes of the Today programme, so is it asking too much for religion to have a chunk of dedicated time?’ wails Steve Clifford, of the Evangelical Alliance.‘I hope this does happen because religious people do not have the monopoly on morality and ethics,’ ripostes arch-atheist Richard Dawkins.
But while the two sides squabble, there is a more radical alternative. Instead of adding a bland atheist to the catalogue of bland Muslims, bland Hindus, bland Sikhs and bland Jews whom the BBC enlists to provide balance to the Christians, they could do the obvious thing, and just abolish Thought For The Day
Athesists already control the thoughts programmed into the heads of most school children every day in the west, they control the thoughts for the day in the scientific community and believe me, under the term secularism, they control most thoughts on most of the media, if only indirectly.
I also agree with this author that such things, like official prayers in Congress and other public affairs are almost always bland, multi-religious and would be better ended than to hold Christ up to ridicule by His name,being used, mostly indirectly now, among these other anti-Christ forces.
So, rather than give that idiot Dawkins and his pals more air time, I agree they should pull the plug on the whole thing!
