Writing about this BBC article on Butterflies and Wheels, the wonderful OB says:
So - what would this 'sense of virtue' be? Especially this 'sense of virtue' offered by Christianity? Think hard now. Hmmm. Is it anything like the virtue of the religious congregations in Ireland? No, probably not. What then? Oh...humility, turning the other cheek, loving your enemy, that kind of thing. Unless you're in charge of an industrial school, of course, in which case humility and turning the other cheek and loving your enemy is quite the wrong kind of thing. So that must not be what's meant by a sense of virtue then? So what is? Hmmm. Not getting hitched to someone of the same sex? Yes, perfect! But then - that's just a rule, right?
It's currently the second post of Notes and Comment. And, as so often, she is right.
She was also in the Observer on Sunday.
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