And what would you have pref­ered the increased media cov­er­age to be aimed at: the Royal Wed­ding? The Grand National?

The death of such a reli­gious pro­tag­o­nist will be mourned, or at least rec­og­nized by many, as would the death of say, Tony Blair, how­ever, there, I would defi­nately draw the line at canonization.

But I digress; what I beleive is thus: that a man of such promi­nence within the world should be mourned, and with pos­i­tiv­ity, as he was hardly a mon­ster, tra­di­tion­al­ism and reli­gion are funny sub­jects, they stem from old tra­di­tions (hence, obvi­ously, the name). Tra­di­tions such as the ‘stereotypical male and female roles’, whether he was indeed a pro­poga­tor of aids can be ques­tioned upon, how­ever he was simply doing as his reli­gion instucted, and cathlocism, although morally wrong, does frown upon the use of contraception.

The writ­ing of Toyn­bee was an inter­est­ing read, but it angered me to see her ref­er­ence to lenin in such a way; in fact Lenin was gripped by the civil way of the early 1920s and years before, between the social­ist Red Army, and the White army, the monar­chists. Monar­chists infact helped by Britain and the United states, with­out which the White Army would have been crushed much ear­lier, with less deaths, which she blames on Lenin.

It is not that I beleive that Toyn­bee was infact wrong, just that per­haps the choice of Russ­ian leader was a bit ‘skew-whiff’, and that Losif Vis­sar­i­onovich Stalin might per­haps have been the better choice.

Respectfully,

Joe Wright

Thanks for this.

A man who gave so many people faith should be hon­oured, per­haps even can­on­ized, athe­ist as I am I thus beleive he should be respected as the next man who can do such a thing, and I know not of anyone like that.

Do you?