Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
There is something pretty sinister about how acceptable it has become to declare people guilty simply by association - how many times can Andrew get kicked in the nuts for the 'cime' of boning some chick? If there is a suggestion of underage sheningans then surely he needs to be tried and found guilty before being sentenced to banichment and cancellation?

It's all the fault of Peter Cook. The comedians in the 60s who swept away traditional ideas of deference and politeness to one's betters opened the doors to the hippies who rejected religion, which had traditionally given us a moral framework around which to live, leaving us in a moral vacuum with no rules and no guidance.

This vacuum has been filled by the new puritansim of the post-modernist left. Headgear, for example.
I think you've totally missed the point of the '60s, C.

Religion had been in sharp decline in the west, certainly in GB, since WW1. We could accept a God who gave us an empire but not one who killed half the seed of Europe one by one in the trenches.

Seance mysticism replaced the CoE post-war as mothers tried to contact their dead sons' spirits.

By post WW2, the CofE was basically not much more than the Tory party at prayer.

Then the '60s came along and we invented the hippy scene with the Beatles going to India and showing that real religion is Vedic and you don't need holy books and priests, you smoke puff like the sadhus and/or bosh acid and Commune with the Divine yourself.

Hippies didn't reject religion, we reinvented it in the west in the same way Rastafarianism did for the blacks in the Carib and then here.

Pwoppa religions, see? God doesn't want you to just have a tiny sip of cheap wine on a Sunday, He wants you to get off your tits all the time the better to know Him.