Our late lamented leader, Tony Blair, has now decided to devote his life to faith. He is setting up a new faith foundation that will "attempt to bring religions together to tackle global issues". The first issue will be to tackle malaria.
Blair said "Mr Blair said: "If you got churches and mosques and those of the Jewish faith working together to provide the bed nets that are necessary to eliminate malaria, what a fantastic thing that would be."
(Note to Tony - the other word you were looking for was synagogue)
Maybe there's a point in that you can get access to large groups of people through religious organizations, but, if you really are interested in eradicating malaria, why do you need to drag religion into it? Why not just say you want to get everyone to help, rather than mentioning specific religious groups?
Incidentally, I noticed that Blair didn't include athiests, agnostics, humanists, etc. in his list of people he would try to recruit to his cause. Perhaps he realises that some people do get involved in altruistic charitable work without needing 'encouragement' from religious leaders. Then again, he might be ignoring us because he thinks we are all selfish heathens who would never offer to help and we are all going to hell anyway.
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