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The Daily Mail under the editorship of Paul Dacre is the last popular stronghold of Christian Britain. … Dacre’s Mail is virtually the last friend Bible-believing Christians have got in Fleet Street.
An article on VirtueOnline that brought a smile to my face and a little bit of joy to my heart. I’m not linking to the site for religious reasons, so you’ll have to copy and paste:
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8967
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Hmmm, never realised the Daily Mail was actually Biblical…
“And lo,” sayeth Paul, “do not go forth into every nation, lest you be thought to be an asylum seeker, who taketh with one hand and taketh with the other. And love thy neighbour as thyself, unless thy neighbour believeth anything that thou do not, in which case thou shouldst have contempt and distrust for all that they do and…” [cont p94]
Phew! I thought you really loved the Daily Wail for a minute there, Dave.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are a bunch of wooly minded liberals. If they’d had their way we’d all be speaking German nowadays.
Blessed are the persecuted, but only those white people in Middle England who are persecuted by the PC brigade for daring to speak the truth. People who are persecuted in foreign countries for standing up for human rights don’t count because they are, well, foreign.
Hmm … now who was it said “two different religions”?
Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘If national service doesn’t sort ‘em out, hanging will.’
Didn’t realise that horoscopes and assorted New Age claptrap was in the Bible. Must have missed that bit.
I refer this blogger to the last line of his own article - ‘God alone can save us.’ So, not the Daily Mail, then.
Somehow I don’t see God standing in his heaven wringing his hands over the editorship of the Mail. He is, after all, God - and can make anything happen that he wants.
Should we really be trying to second-guess God’s tactics - or which newspapers might be plopping through God’s letterbox of a morning?
Someone remind me - who owns the Mail again?
Christianity, as opposed to liberal gnosticism, is intrinsically both an individual and a public faith. That means that it is a Christian duty to pray to the one true God, who alone controls events, that Christians can continue to have a public platform from which to declare biblical truth. Currently, the Daily Mail, for all its faults, provides that.
Unreal.
The Daily Mail lacks any sort of compassion or forgiveness for the targets of its editorials, maybe I’m wrong but I thought compassion and forgiveness were pretty orthodox Christian values.
[Comment edited - Dave]
Julian - welcome to the site and thanks for your comment.
Can I ask why you chose VirtueOnline as the place for your ‘Save the Daily Mail’ campaign?
Yorkshireman Displaced - if you make your point using less strong terms I’ll post it.
Thank you very much Dave for your welcome - why VirtueOnline? It’s a good forum for orthodox Christian opinions and I respect David Virtue as a journalist. I’d happily make the same case in the Church Times……Please could my details be taken off the blog now? Anyone who wants to get in touch can do so via the church web-site: www.oughtibridgechurch.org.uk
Sincerely,
Julian
Julian - as per my e-mail - I’m not sure which details you’re referring to.
[Edit: confusion hopefully resolved via e-mail]
Sorry about the muddle Dave - it must be my computer that leaves my name & e-mail in the leave a reply boxes when I log onto your blog.
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
Julian Mann
I like the Morning Star myself. Very spiritual reading.
What complete Bollards!!! This has to be the most reactionary pile of facistic trash in print. It preaches intolerance of others far more than any other paper.
Under Dacre it has lurched further to the right while also supporting the most unliberal government in British history - and that’s saying something.
Even as a staunch conservative I’m infuriated at its stand on almost every major issue there is.
I’d be happy to see the paper spontaniously combust.
Well, I always preferred what John Cooper Clarke had to say about the Daily Express.
The Daily Mail has always had a certain Backward in Bigotry (Forward in Faith) feel to it.
Strangely, it’s never occurred to me that the words ‘Christian’ and ‘Daily Mail’ had anything in common.
Interestingly my sister reads the DM and does not claim to have a Christian faith. On the other hand I attend church regularly and find the DM scaremongering and offensive, as well as offering little intellectual content. Of course there are bound to be church goers who do read the Daily Mail, but I’ve never seen anything in it that resembles the teachings of Jesus.
I can’t remember if the Daily Mail has a page 3? I get all my news from the internet each day……. God invented the internet right?
My mother (who is 73 and lives in Surrey) reads the Daily Mail and as a result truly believes that hooded yobs will stab her if she leaves the home counties, she is scared of immigrants and the other day she even phoned me to tell me that the Daily Mail were insisting that crocs were bad for you! I have asked her to stop reading the reactionary tabloid but she likes the format, free CD’s and the occasional offer on bone china.
I campaigned to have it removed from the newspaper table at my theological college on account of it being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist and anti the basic Christian principles of love, justice and peace.
As for Alan Dacre personally offering Christian principles for living do read these: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/oct/17/dailymail.mondaymediasection
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/mar/26/pressandpublishing.media
for other perspectives.
I find the Mail editorial depressing, offensive and riven with hopelessness. I am not sure that I can recognise Christian faith being presented positively anywhere in the Daily Mail.
I have no Idea why I called Paul Dacre Alan…quite an odd slip of the typewriter. Sorry about that Alan (whoever you are). xxxx
If the Daily Mail represents Christian values I think I will have to become a Buddhist.
I have heard tell that there are some who believe the Daily Mail to be inerrant.
Isn’t that reassuring for all us woolly, thinking, compassionate Christians?
The Daily Mail trumpeted Oswald Mosley and the Fascists in the 30s. But worry not, dear reader, it has moved decisively to the Right since then…
Sorry for my comments friend. I spent too much time reading mailwatch.co.uk and have become to enured to that style of blogging. I hate racism especially the closet rascism of the Daily Mail and it was inappropriate for me to use that term even ironically. Mea Culpa.
Barking mad. Irretrievably.
PS: For a truly BIBLICAL response to Virtue Online may I commend this most EDIFYING article by Father Christian?
This would be the Daily Mail of which a former editor said, “The ideal Daily Mail story is one which leaves its readers hating somebody”.
It never fails to amaze me that certain papers are happy to be self-righteous and pseudo-holy one minute, and yet to make use of the worst sort of paparazzi pictures the next.
He/she also said something along the lines of…”the average Daily Mail story should leave the reader fuming with anger and yet paralysed with fear” or something like that.
“to declare biblical truth”
And whose version would that be? Is it “mine”? - with the implication that anyone who disagrees with my “biblical truth” isn’t a real Christian..
How does anyone who believes that their truth is biblical and other folk’s plainly isn’t, actually keep up that belief? Do they hold that everyone else has chosen to actively go against scripture even if they say they believe it? Or are the others just misled or mistaken? If the former - how do we know that aint true for those at Virtue Online or in the Daily Mail? And if the latter - how do we know who’s misled and who isn’t?
If Biblical truth is so obvious - which is it? Are the opposition deliberately lying? And yet they also claim to be based on Scripture. And if people are being led astray then Biblical truth seems less than obvious…
In either case we simply can’t say that it is obvious can we or neither would be possible and no-one would disagree whilst also claiming to be Christian?
Sorry - but this arrogance which leads anyone to claim to have the right to label their doctrine “biblical truth” is just breathtaking. After all, to claim you already have all truth is to deny that we will be led into all truth…..
*Rant over. 
I have found the bullying prejudices of the Daily Mail as far from the example of Jesus as any source in Britain. A liturgical ripping of the Daily Mail is not without attraction.
Just one example is that not long ago it was caught out in the act of seeking stories that would reflect badly on East Europeans in Britain. Still the list of offences by this rag is just about endless. It merits only shunning!
I would have thought that The Daily Hate Mail’s constant demonising of immigrants went completely against the Christian command to “love your neighbour”.
