FictionAlley, one of the largest Harry Potter fanfic sites. All my fics are published there, but I also have a long story of disagreement - to put it politely - with a previous administration.
I think your comparison is not really apt, since it assumes that the "good points" include calling Christianity a "weird Middle Eastern crucifixion cult" that has now lost its hold on people. That is the equivalent of implying that Powell's views about people of another sort remain valid. Also, it as historically accurate. In forty years of increasing immigration, we certainly have not seen the river Thames - or any other - foaming with much blood: even the Brixton riots were mild affairs, by comparison not only with what is frequent in poorer countries, but even with the history of London itself (think of the Gordon riots). By the same token, to describe Christianity as a fading cult is self-deception on a monstrous scale.
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Date: 2008-04-29 08:31 am (UTC)I think your comparison is not really apt, since it assumes that the "good points" include calling Christianity a "weird Middle Eastern crucifixion cult" that has now lost its hold on people. That is the equivalent of implying that Powell's views about people of another sort remain valid. Also, it as historically accurate. In forty years of increasing immigration, we certainly have not seen the river Thames - or any other - foaming with much blood: even the Brixton riots were mild affairs, by comparison not only with what is frequent in poorer countries, but even with the history of London itself (think of the Gordon riots). By the same token, to describe Christianity as a fading cult is self-deception on a monstrous scale.