tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post5216271344181873354..comments2024-02-10T12:12:06.028+00:00Comments on The Real Blog: Farron is stronger with his faith than without itDavid Boylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410159311875228620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-64624105240762390262015-07-21T18:12:06.086+01:002015-07-21T18:12:06.086+01:00Firstly, as an agnostic I have no qualms at all wi...Firstly, as an agnostic I have no qualms at all with Tim Farron's religiosity and will probably be voting for him when the time comes. I should point out, he's no more religious than Mr Gladstone, and no one can deny his achieevements for Britain.<br /><br />I think that personally Richard Dawkins does more harm than good. But I should express the fact that numerically speaking most atheists aren't white, middle-class men, they are in the developing world and living in terror of being killed for their "infidelity" and "apostasy". The rights of people to belief or unbelief must be protected, and it's my belief that Tim would grant me those rights.<br /><br />If he doesn't personally approve of homosexuality, I have no qualms about that. Admittedly I'm not gay and a bullied 15 year old might think diferently, but I'm sure Tim is opposed to bullying and discrimination and we are not here to make windows into men's souls so long as they obey the law and enforce it fairly if in power.<br /><br />I’m sure Tim wouldn’t say that sins (as he defines them) equate to crimes, or should. There’s no law against heterosexual sex outside marriage, or adultery, or divorce, which Jesus did condemn (and is widely ignored by evangelicals, but not Catholics).<br /><br />“He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”<br /><br />Yet no one, certainly not Farron, calls for the law to enforce this (though they did in Victorian days).asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com