Just a quickie while the kids are in the shower. Our Man is deep undercover in Falkirk (about halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, but then everything is in Scotland) when he happened to catch the BBC evening news top story. It was a milk-the-story piece about the release of the Lockerbie bomber (yes, they are still talking about that up here) and they had got some Catholic bishop lecturing the US on forgiveness and telling them to butt out of Scottish politics. A few thoughts:
1. Can you trust the opinion of a bloke who believes good people go to the good place in the sky and bad people go to a bad place and all the rest of it.
2. As Our Man's (Scottish) host said, he'd have more sympathy for the US position if he thought the bomber was remotely guilty as charged.
3. It's comforting being able to understand what everyone is saying again, but still not understand what's going on.
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Unrelatedly, are you coming to Edinburgh for the festival?
Sadly no, Our Man is South of the border again. Would have liked to catch some of the Fringe, but have contacts to be drunk and drinks to be contacted.
good to see your drinking arm hasn't lsot any strength during your time in the Far east.
fleet street would be proud.
You're either being unfairly sarcastic or don't really know what Catholics actually believe about what happens after you die...but either way, you're entitled to your own opinion. Cheers.
Indeed Blue Shoe, we all are entitled to our opinions. Our Man didn't mean to single out Catholics, he meant any believer freaks who devote their lives to patently silly beliefs, which include angels, saints, devils, and that's OK for them as long as they are not sacrificing virgins, shagging little boys or crashing planes into skyscrapers.
But why the presumably sane rest of us should credit such fantasists with opinions worthy of our attention is beyond Our Man's ken.
Hope that clears that up.
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