Religious dig heels in over Thought for the Day
Francis Sedgemore, Tuesday 14 July 2009
Believers in the Invisible Magic Friend are up in arms at suggestions that a three-minute early morning slot on BBC Radio 4 devoted to uplifting spiritual blah be opened to non-religious voices. Famously derided by a former editor as a “reservoir of pointlessness and boredom”, Thought for the Day has long been under attack from humanists, and the subject of ridicule by satirists.
Fair’s fair; we atheists wish to become mainstream, pointless and boring too. It’s our right.
Feed the writer! 
Tuesday 14 July 2009 at 20:53 GMT
“Uplifting spirtitual blah”?
I’ve always liked Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Tuesday 14 July 2009 at 20:59 GMT
(continued, ad nauseam)
Tuesday 14 July 2009 at 21:43 GMT
Well, at least it’s not “as I was pondering the face of Jesus burnt into my slice of Hovis ….”
Organic milk over organic cornflakes, btw.
Tuesday 14 July 2009 at 22:17 GMT
God: the evidence for…
Wednesday 15 July 2009 at 07:33 GMT
Now there’s organic cornflakes all over me keyboard!!
Wednesday 15 July 2009 at 08:52 GMT
Kiss my holey arse, hoomans!
Wednesday 15 July 2009 at 08:59 GMT
Fido’s comrade in rosary beads Christina Odone was on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning. The Guardian’s resident papal attack dog complained about the marginalisation of religious believers in the media, and foolishly employed this disingenuous argument in favour of the continued religious monopoly on TTFD. Unfortunately for Odone, she was up against Anthony Grayling.