Like many other observers, I was always suspicious of Tony Blair's late conversion to Catholicism, coming as it did with no public confession of his many very public sins; i.e. his strong promotion of abortion.Now it turns out that my skepticism was warranted. Indeed, Blair's recent interview in a homosexual magazine illustrates that, for whatever reasons he "became" a Catholic, the truth of the religion wasn't among them.
Maybe it was for marital harmony. Perhaps he wanted some pageantry and ritual in his post-Prime Minister life. Who knows. Maybe he just needed somewhere to go on Sunday mornings.
But Tony Blair obviously didn't convert because he was looking for a spiritual foundation. Like Barack Obama, Blair's idea of Christianity is something that's behind the times, something that has not only missed the progressive truths opened up by Freud, Marx and Saul Alinksy, but has even repressed them.
Tragically, Tony Blair's seems but a cosmetic conversion. For sincere Catholics (even young, inexperienced ones) do not give interviews to homosexual magazines in which they dismiss biblical authority, describe truth as ever-evolving and argue that the Pope needs to get over his "generational" hangups against sodomy.
Here's a bit from the Evening Standard (U.K.):
In an interview with gay magazine Attitude, the former prime minister said that most Catholic congregations in Britain were more "liberal minded" than the Church hierarchy.
Mr Blair, who converted to Catholicism after resigning as prime minister in 2007, stressed that he felt Pope Benedict XVI stood for "many fantastic things". But he made clear he disagrees with the Vatican's opposition to gay marriage, and its decrees that homosexual acts are sinful.
Asked about the Pope's view, Mr Blair told Attitude: "There is a huge generational difference" on the issue.
"And there's probably that same fear among religious leaders that if you concede ground on an issue like this - because attitudes and thinking evolve over time - where does that end?" he said.
"You'd start having to rethink many, many things. Now, my view is that rethinking is good, so let's carry on rethinking.
"Actually, we need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach your religious faith."...
