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The Bugs that You’re Liable to Catch from the Bible…

Today’s newspapers report NHS executives responsible for hospitals in Leicester are due to meet today to decide whether to order the removal from patients’ lockers of copies of the Gideon bible that have long routinely been placed there, as they have been in bedside tables of hotel-rooms and prisons throughout the world.

They are reportedly entertaining imposing the ban on two grounds. First, they fear the presence of the bedside bibles might violate equality and diversity codes or else offend non-Christian patients obliged by their presence to come into contact with them. Second, they are concerned the bibles might harbour the MRSA bug and so increase the risk of patients contracting the disease though handling them.

Mm!

In response to the first concern, Gideons International, who distribute the bibles, have offered to place notices in ward lockers advising patients how to obtain any preferred alternative sacred texts. In addition, representatives of all other major faith groups represented among Leicester’s large minority population have indicated entire satisfaction with the presence of the bibles and have expressed sadness at the prospect of their compulsory removal.

As to the second alleged ground for banning the bedside bibles, apparently the hospital authorities are not also contemplating banning from wards either newspapers or any of the numerous NHS notices routinely placed in patient lockers. Doubtless, MRSA bugs are all new-age pagans who believe only in homeopathy.

The fact is we have here another example of the same crazy political correctness as lately has caused Birmingham Council to replace Christmas by ‘Wintermas’, some schools to scrap nativity plays, and some shops and businesses to stop displaying Christmas trees, putting up decorations, or allowing staff to hold office parties at Christmas for fear of offending non-Christians. One may even include the craven message broadcast by the Queen last Christmas in which she seemed almost apologetic for celebrating the festival and anxious to include as many non-Christians in the celebrations as possible.

I have no immediate answer how to stop the madness and would welcome suggestions from readers.

However, please send suggestions by email. I have decided no longer to open ordinary post, for fear of what bugs envelopes might harbour, or to answer the telephone, lest I may offend any of the acoustically challenged.

Comments (5)

AW:

I think the BBC has done huge damage with its promotion of multiculturalism which essentially is a denial of a British culture - how could it be anything else but this?

It's improved slightly, but the indulgences of several years ago have took on uglier racial undertones. For example, Dyke legitimised the phrase "hideously white" - how on Earth can that be regarded as acceptable in this day and age? Or talking about "when the England football team is all black". Change white for black and 100M athletics sprinting team for football, and it's plain that they're making an issue of race offensively and for no good at all.

Privatise the NHS, the schools, the BBC, and anything else that belongs to the state.

If everything were private, then people would choose Hospitals whose priority was medicine, Schools which put Education first, Media that reflected their own bias, and services of all kinds where the provider understood what it was that was expected of them.

Organisations that concentrated on the trivial would fail, not because enough people care about bibles, but because the average citizen knows when a service provider is focussed on what really matters. Anything else would not be trusted.

Paul:

It's long been clear that "celebrating diversity" means denigration or supression of the majority, host culture which will, of course, only stoke resentment against the minorities on whose behalf such absurdities are enacted. If there's any hope it's in the common sense and courtesy expressed by the representatives of the minority faiths whose sensibilities these public sector leaches were so anxious to protect. Two things need to be done - to somehow root out all these third rate minds from the public service and to abolish the false gods of "diversity" and "multiculturalism" and replace them with the only principle which works; equality before a colour-blind law.

R S Musgrave:

The proposed ban on bibles in hospitals is caused by a disease most hospital staff are not aware of: "synthocciphobia". This is short for synthetic hatred of the West. There is a variant on this ailment called "synthanglophobia".

That the condition is synthetic is usually obvious from the fact that those suffering the ailments do not carry their "beliefs" through to their logical conclusion. For example, of those who want to turn the UK into a cross between Nigeria and Pakistan in a hundred years, not one in a thousand plans to retire in Nigeria or Pakistan.

Motives for the ailment are various, but include the desire to be seen moralising. With a view to attracting as much attention as possible, it is not much use preaching against boring old theft, rape, murder or adultery. Something new and different like banning Bibles in hospitals will attract much more attention.

Synthocciphobes are normally too stupid to attract attention to themselves by doing anything creative or constructive. They therefor resort to DESTRUCTION - of whatever is nearest to hand: their own culture.

Multiculturalism is synthocciphobia writ large. Notice how its advocates want the UK made more multicultural, when in fact it is China or Japan which are far monocultural and would thus benefit much more from extra multiculturalism. But preaching multiculturalism in China would be to take multiculturalism to its logical conclusion: something synthocciphobes never do. Attracting attention to themselves in their own back yard, as pointed out above, is the real objective.

Nick:

Well, Nietzsche did point out: 'One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.'

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