“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right … think about such things”
Read Borat Johnson. Borat’s problems are an example of democracy in action which is a faith / Christian / spiritual / whatever / we invented it thing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pMd9P97bZz19Uxod5bBFHFLOBma-IgjH/view?usp=sharing
Platitude of the Day 
From John Crace.
“Theresa May just purred quietly”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/06/day-of-pleading-and-threats-ends-with-boris-johnson-in-post-just-about
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Was she or wasn’t she being critical of Johnson? Difficult to tell, but Jesus as a great leader got a mention. Not sure about JCs management skills though, I always thought of him as an ideas man rather than someone who gets things done. Or got things done. Or will get things done when he decides to come back. If he decides to come back. It’s all a bit up in the air isn’t it? Not up in the air as in heaven and looking down benevolently on us though. Gosh, isn’t trying to fit a religious message into politics tricky?
Whatever.
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Most uncharacteristically she grasped the nettle of a serious current controversy, but then just waved it about ineffectually until the time was up, leaving us non the wiser as to what she thought of it or what Jesus would have done.
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It seems to be the fashion among TftD speakers at the moment to insist on tying words and concepts back to their origins, and thereby ushering religion in by the back door. We saw this at least twice last week with the term “jubilee”. And today Lucy Winkett tells us that “confidence” derives from the Latin “con fide”, “with faith”, which allows her to jump to her absurd conclusion that “leading, and being led, is a matter of faith and belief”. Not for some of us, Lucy; we want to see a bit of evidence, which in Boris’s case points only in one direction.
In passing, Lucy also asserted that the reading from Philippians refers directly to Jesus’s teachings. Oh no it doesn’t; Jesus doesn’t get a mention. The passage ends: “Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do; and the God of peace shall be with you”. It’s all about Paul, as it so often is. Not a surprise if you accept the view that when Philippians was written, Jesus was thought of as a purely spiritual, celestial being, without having existed on earth at all.
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Well why not, as long as one is consistent. Today is Tuesday 7 June 2022. That is, it is Tyr’s Day, the 7th day of the month of Juno, exactly 2022 years since the birth of Jesus probably. Etymologically, this makes all three of these religions, Norse, Roman and Christian, true. Or at least, it makes them all equally true.
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And just to mention, the particular failing in all of these efforts is known as the Fallacy of Equivocation, wherein a word with two meanings (in this case FAITH) is freely interchanged between them. From the dictionary:
FAITH
NOUN
complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
“this restores one’s faith in politicians”
synonyms:
trust · belief · confidence · conviction · credence · reliance · dependence · optimism · hopefulness · hope · expectation
strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
“bereaved people who have shown supreme faith”
synonyms:
religion · church · sect · denomination · persuasion
In the word CONFIDE, clearly it is meaning 1 that is being used, not meaning 2. But no matter, just a quick duck shuffle and voila! A proof that we are all religious at heart.
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