I have read ALL the posts concerning Tony Blair and I have come to this conclusion:
I tend to agree with those who see the blood on Blair's hands for the disaster in Iraq - He was noodled into the war by
George Bush, and I won't even comment on
his or Bush's legacy.

Second, if you are a TRUE Christian, that is, if you believe that Jesus of Nazareth
IS the Promised One, and the teachings He
left us through His disciples, are the ones
that determine your life on this planet,
then you will FORGIVE Tony Blair for his
shallowness, his hypocrisy, his fawning attitude and his too-late good intentions.

Third, The Q'uran is as Holy a book as the Holy Bible and the Torah. The problem lies in the LITERAL or material, interpretation of it instead of the FIGURATIVE, or spiritual message it contains. There is a
large GAP between what the Q'uran actually states, essentially being true to Allah
and "killing" UNBELIEF - not only in yourself but in others, and how this section has been murderously translated. This is the MOST misunderstood passage in the Q'uran, because it has come to mean the killing of people - a patently absurd premise even by Islamic standards of morality.

There is something to be said of 'fate' or
'kismet' figuring in the ideology of Islam. It essentially says that individual persons are not in control of their lives, and that they are 'victims'of evil forces in the world. Only the all-powerful Caliph
(Sh'aria law) and the uluma(imams) can save the people from this 'victimhood.'
It does not help that education levels in Muslim countries have no comparison in any non-Muslim country. If we could look at the everyday problems of people and go past all the inflammatory rhetoric and ideology, the three great faiths can,and MUST co-exist, or they will annihilate each other for no reason.

" And Jesus entered the room, as it was locked, and said to those assembled there
"Peace to you, my peace I leave you." And he breathed on them."

Tony Blair Does God

Tony Blair has confessed that, before he decided Iraq to invade,
he got down on his knees and fervently prayed.
The answer to his prayer he kept close to his chest,
but he led us to believe his Crusade had been blessed.

When his chum George had made up his mind,
like his obedient poodle Tony ran close behind.
They were standing shoulder to shoulder he constantly repeated,
even when they were opposite one another with both of them seated.

The name of the Almighty he never did mention
and to his faith Tony did not call our attention.
Spinner Alastair Campbell gave the hacks a dismissive nod
as he disdainfully told them “We don’t do God”.

Once Tony had left the Primer Minister’s home
he quickly hopped on a plane bound for Rome.
As an Anglican he no longer wanted to be
in Saint Peters he pledged allegiance to the Holy See.

Now his ever increasing displays of religiosity
were even more irksome than his overweening pomposity.
His advisers, as he set off for the strife-torn Middle East
had to persuade him not to go dressed as a priest.

As there his intervention was no resounding success
he looked for something to do that would cause him less stress.
What steps could he take to ensure his eternal salvation?
Of course! He’d set up a Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

He who said the media acted like a feral beast when they did not toe his line,
now called a news conference to announce his vision divine,
He would enlist religion to get rid of violence and every conflict remove.
And, if that were not enough, it would the economy improve.

Tony stated that he wanted it well understood
his Foundation would sell religion as a force for our good.
To learn how it would do that we anxiously awaited,
as we listened to him pontificating with breath that was bated.

Its first task, he suggested, should be to donate mosquito nets
to people who face increasing malaria threats.
Will each one be blessed by Tony as he worries and frets
to make sure they are given only the holiest of nets?

If any are offered by donors who do not in religion believe,
will his Faith Foundation decline them to receive?
While he still keeps insisting he is always most sincere,
that Tony has gone round the bend is now demonstrably clear.

What is his ultimate goal as he sets out to do good?
Could he be preparing the way for a future sainthood?
But does he know the halo could only be claimed for his head
long after he’s dead?

I share your vision and appreciate your effort to foster respect and understanding among all religions. There are underlying commonalities among all faiths, they are rooted deeply in our collective psyche, they are true and have the power to overcome the surface level differences that work to divide us. Our best possible future will be discovered in our deep abiding respect, compassion, and ultimately love for the mispercieved other.

Hi Gerrim

You write;

For COLINNICHOLAS: You really don'tknow if "Blair's God is as real as Zeus and Aphrodite." Blair is referring to the God of billions of people around the world, not just his God. That is a reality to deal with."

I reply;

Well Gerrim you seem to be suggesting that the sheer number of believers proves that God exists. That is no argument. Millions have believed in other Gods. Millions have also believed the world was flat, millions believed the stars were put in the sky by God to make the night look pretty.
Millions believed in witchcraft and astrology and little green men from outer space.

Read this by HLMencken.

"Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their
mounds? There was a day when Jupiter was king of the gods, and any man
who doubted his puissance was ipso-facto a barbarian and an ignoramus.
But where in all the world is there a man who worships Jupiter today? And what of Huitzilopochtli? In one year - and it is no more than five hundred years ago -
fifty thousand youths and maidens were slain in sacrifice to him.
Today, if he is remembered at all, it is only by some vagrant savage in the depths of the Mexican forest. Huitzilopochtli, like many other gods, had no human father;
his mother was a virtuous widow; he was born of an apparently innocent flirtation that she carried on with the sun. When he frowned, his father, the sun, stood still.
When he roared with rage, earthquakes engulfed whole cities. When he thirsted
he was watered with ten thousand gallons of human blood. But today Huitzilopochtli is as magnificently forgotten as Alien G Thurman.

HLMencken. From "Memorial". reprinted in
"The Portable Atheist" Dicapo Press.2007

Making up Gods who will watch over us and make us immortal - comes from our fear of death. We will believe anything that consoles and comforts us. It feels so good.

It is appropriate that this column appears in the "On Faith" section of WAPO, because any hope of peace in the Middle East is surely based on faith and not on any facts.

Tony - you miserable little bush lap dog. You have no credibility.

For COLINNICHOLAS: You really don'tknow if "Blair's God is as real as Zeus and Aphrodite." Blair is referring to the God of billions of people around the world, not just his God. That is a reality to deal with.

Blair's use of the but in the following should not be used as the previous sentence is not in contrast to this one "But in many other parts of the world now, this intermingling of faiths is increasingly part of the demographic reality."

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golly, Mister Prime Minister,
the only person less qualified for your "Peace Envoy" assignment is Dick Cheney.

What did you do when you had the chance to prevent the US from initiating the war of aggression against Iraq ?
What did you do with the knowledge that Saddam was willing to abdicate, if the belligerents would just guarantee his safe passage out of Iraq ?

You, Sir, are a fraud. A hater-of-Arabs-and-Muslims fraud.
.

There are two kinds of dreamers: the John Lennon's Like and the Tony Flair's Like.
I'll stick to the first one.

Tony Blair is a fool on a fool's mission. How does one help to bring a Middle East peace without dealing with the reality of the Nazi occupation, the Nazi strangulation of the civilian population in Gaza and the Nazi ethnic cleansing and implementation of a racist system of apartheid in the West Bank and East Jeruselem.

Tony Blair turned his back while the Nazis attacked UN shelters in Gaza, targeted civilians including women and children for murder and dropped bombs on hospitals and ambulances. Nazi pilots strut around the Nazi Reich parading their medals, after dropping white phophorous incendiaries on schools and universities and burning children beyond recognition.

The hapless Tony Blair is in bed with the Nazis and has no chance to do anything but to sell his soul to the Devil.

Mr. Blair is full of the brown stuff right up to his beady little eyeballs.

I agree with Chaotician, who wrote: "Faith, a belief in something with no rational foundation, no evidence, no facts, and contrary to common sense!"

There will be no peace in the Middle East till every one of one side or the other is dead.

if beautiful words could bring the dead back to life, he'd be de man.

Faith, a belief in something with no rational foundation, no evidence, no facts, and contrary to common sense!

Yonkers, New York
24 March 2009

With this lengthy essay that sounds more like a sermon delivered by Rick Warren, I wonder what's gotten into Tony Blair's head!

I thought he is still on the job as a Special Envoy to the Middle East, but not a newly converted egangelical Christian.

If he is still working as a Special Envoy for the United States, Mr.Blair confounds because he sounds utopian. His basic idea of the world's religions coming together is utterly visionary, utterly idealistic, and utterly unrealistic.

If he is a converted evangelical Christian, then of course what he says here is quite true to form. I hope he will have his own congregation soon--and his own megachurch.

Mariano Patalinjug
MarPatalinjug@aol.com

DEMIRJIAN_A

You wrote, "And about Abrahamic religions, well there is nothing Abrahamic in Christ. Jesus never mentioned Moses, Abraham, David, Isaac, or any of the Abrahamic prophets."

Not only did Jesus, Who Is God-Incarnate, mention most if not all of the people that you referred to but Jesus Was a Jew. And the Jews, who are the "Chosen People", were chosen and formed by God and the first Jew was Abraham.

Take care, be ready.

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

Dear Tony Blair,

Submission/islam is not a *Abrahamic faith*.
Submission/islam has no any correlation with Judaism and Christianity.
Trinity,Son of God and Jewish People being damned by submission.
Arithmetic of islam is wrong.Submission says *Two equals One* and *1/6+1/6+2/3+1/8=1.00(it doesnt make 1.00,but makes 1.125)*

Civilization is under Threat.This should be point and problem,not a few arabs(palestinians) from the Promised Land(such as written in the Book of God which is well known by Catholics).There are more than 200 million arabs and twenty arabic countries.

Dear Catholic Blair,

England is the Center of Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Anglo-Saxon Protestanism is the Base of the Present Civilization.
Please,remember Henry VIII,Elizabeth I and Victoria.

Here in the UK some of us are looking on the bright side ... the odious Blair now has a final resting place awaiting him which is suited to his behaviour in this life ... HELL.

All three Abrahamic religions are punitive and intolerant, based on "my-god-is-better-than-your-god and it's-my-way-or-the-highway.

Look at the world now: Catholics vs. Jews, Jews vs. Muslims, Muslims vs. Christians and political American neochristians vs. gays, Muslims, Mexicans and Liberals. Add the greed for oil, land, dominance and money and you have a very wicked religious stew.

Most of the war and suffering in the history of the world has been caused by these religions. Maybe Abraham was the original Satan who is now dancing in delight at the evil he created in the world.

Blair wrote
"So religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st Century as political ideology was to the 20th Century - indeed more so."
"God" help us then.

His Faith Foundation will be the repository for all the crackpot ideas that have screwed up the last 2000 years. The man is a danger because he actually believes this nonsense.

Here in the UK some of us are looking on the bright side ... the odious Blair now has a final resting place awaiting him which is suited to his behaviour in this life ... HELL.

Yea Tony speaketh and the snake biteth thee in thy keister.
The Blair of London doth misleadeth his flock unto the War in Iraqland and millions killed by he be.

As the prophet saith, may he rotteth in the garbage strewn by the mulitudes in his path.

I am not very familiar with Tony Blair's political career, but as someone who has visited the very site he describes, I appreciate his thoughts on the importance of faith. It makes me sad to see all the hateful comments- people like that are just the problem he describes. Until we can accept our differences without judging others, we will always have conflict in the Middle East. There is PLENTY of blame to go around for EVERYONE. It is time to focus on the future and stop belly-aching about the past.

Lastly: in regard to the post by demirjian_a | March 24, 2009 3:16 AM :

You need to read the Gospels if you think Jesus was not "Abrahamic". Start with Matthew and its MANY references to the Hebrew scriptures. Matthew 5:17-"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill."

Tony,

U must live on a different planet:after your co-war with idiotic W on Iraq where U two murdered over one million Iraqis and turned five million more into refugees,U have lost your credibility for good esepcially in the Arab World.

After your co-war on Iraq U are still talking about God's love!!!!!! Go tell the 3/4 of a million Iraqi widows and those victims of Conecnetration Camp Gaza about your "love and faith foundation".

Faith Foundation?? no Arab or Muslim have any faith whatsoever in a shamless lair as u are.

What Abrahamic faiths????? Does this include the Crusaders'Wars on the Arab East-old in the 12th/13th century-and new on Palestine and Iraq.

Do u recall Sykes-Picot and the Balfour Declaration? Who created the evil of "isral?"

Muslims co-existed with Jews for centuries with love,peace and tranquility-but as only Jews and NOT, and Never as "israelis" occupying all of Arab historic Palestine and where they have ethnically cleansed over 70% of the indigneous Palestine Arabs and have been occupying the rest for the past sixty years.

Peace in the Arab East-not the amorphous ME-can never exist unless the apartheid racist jewish nuclear entity is dismanteled as apartheid white south africa was and a secular democratic Palestine is set up.

In the mean time the people of the Arab world would be so very delighted if u would stay away from their lands for good.U can socialize with your arab stooges in London-they would love to see u.

Tony Blair, War Criminal tells us all about his god. May he rot in hell.

Mr. Blair must be feeling like a pathetic jerk! He traded his credibility for a hug from George W. Bush. Blair abandoned British pragmatism for U.S. ConfeRACIST conservatism of Cheney/Bush. What a shame. Now, Mr. Blair has lost his power, his voice, his religion, his credibility, his eloquence and his vision.

Irrelevance is the word that comes to mind at the very sag, sight and sound of Toney Blair.

on leaving office, blair converted from anglican to roman catholic. i'd like to know what it is about pledging obeisance to that ex-nazi in drag that he thinks adds to his faith.

Tony Blair- talking about peace? He's Bush's war-mongering poodle. A spineless war-mongering poodle.

Tony Blair is continuing his image refurbishing tour.
He lied to his own people. He led them to believe that a missile could hit London from Iraq within an hour's time. He joined with our own discredited president to stampede us into a war from which we cannot extricate ourselves.

Now he want to be Holy Tony.

The intolerance shown by these charlatans toward people who do not have a religion, or those who believe in Jesus's admonition to keep religion a private matter between oneself and the God one believes in, is astonishing.

The more these educated fools speak on matters about which they know little, the dumber they sound.

If Tony wants to rehabilitate himself, he should apologize to the British people for lying them into war. Wearing sackcloth and ashes ain't gonna do it.

What about sin? John's baptism was for the forgiveness of sin. The Christian faith is not an amorphous "God is Love." God is also a judging God and he stands in judgment over the use of violence in the Middle East and elsewhere to achieve political ends. Unless all the faiths -- and the faithful -- are willing to ask for God's foregivness and repent (ie.e change the way they treat each other) there will be no peace.

It's almost comic to see Blair, now happily relegated to the bin of irrelevancy, writing about honesty and faith. One should feel sorry and pity but then one also remembers his utter venality while in governance.

Dear Mr. Blair,
How can this be? An Arab country tolerating, much less welcoming the establishment of a Christian institution like a Baptism Centre?
Why that's the sort of behavior one would expect only from an Arab "liberal democracy" - something, we have been told (by the Bush administration) that did not exist until the U.S. and it's allies invaded and occupied Iraq - to show those poor dumb, backward, Arabs that a real democracy in the Arab world was indeed possible.

Tony I was always temped to ask you: did you sex up the Iraqi dossier? you know the one about Hussein's WMDs, your claim that they could deploy them withing 45 minutes and all the other crap...
Now be a good chap and please answer me that.
Oh and by the way, all this evangelical staff is completely and utter mostly irrelevant. But so are you, don't you agree?

Adding fundamentalist christianity to the toxic mess in the Muddle East is a solution? How far can self deception go? Like Coleridge's poetry, religion, too, requires "the willing suspension of unbelief". People who possess this "ability" should not be allowed to govern nations. Too dangerous.

There is only one currency in the world, which has Annuit Coeptis inscribed on it . . . Tony Blair, along with George.W.Bush will both be considered visionaries in the future, of that I am sure.

God is to language, what infinity is to math. A metaphor for the imagination . . . those lacking it, good luck to them, I say.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. [1]

[1] Albert Einstein

The ancient Mayan people have a saying :

'Every time you cut down a tree, a star falls out of the sky . . . and when, and if, we ever cut them all down, the sky will fall too.'

God Bless America, and all her friends too.

God Bless President Obama, and all those who choose to be his friend.

Everyone else, should try a little faith . . . it works wonders.

Having handed significant chunks of the British education system to faith based organisations, including some creationist wing nuts, Tony now wants to do the same in Jordan.

I see there are those here who criticise him for not just acquiescing with GWB over the war in Iraq but actively contributing.

In addition to this I would add the betrayal of voices from the land of his birth, David Hume, Thomas Reid, James Mill, Adam Smith and others, all part of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Blair is a wimp who made a fool of himself allowing the Bush crew to tell him what to do. However, he's not entirely stupid and must be aware of Israel's war crimes.
His latest attempt to appear relevant is typical wimpy nothingness, like his silly, hysterical sounding voice.
He's yesterday's man and makes an even biger fool of himself trying to maintain anu relevance on the world stage.

Dear Mr. Blair,

There is faith, which is individual, and there are religions, which are body of rules concocted by men, claiming divine authority. To start with I would like to mention, despite the tortuous effort you force us to endure in your writing, that you are a man of faith, unless you repent for your sins in Iraq, you sound like a heretic and a snake oil salesman.

And about Abrahamic religions, well there is nothing Abrahamic in Christ. Jesus never mentioned Moses, Abraham, David, Isaac, or any of the Abrahamic prophets. He just gave the message of "love" which obviously you did not understand, otherwise you would not have poured the fire of death on your human brothers, if you believe in monotheism. Abraham fathered a child with his slave and said God told me to do it and then he kicked mother and child away, and you want me to believe that if I follow Christ I am to be considered Abrahamic? If Abraham was alive today, he would have been hit with child support so that never again to have coitus with a concubine and not be responsible for his acts.

A Baptism Centre in Jordan.
A wonderful start.
This will allow Christians to convert and baptize first the poor and downtrodden muslims in the region. The Arab lands will slowly become Christian. Israel will be kept strong to protect Jerusalem and Bethlehem from the Muslims. South America, Africa, and Asia will be also made Christian.
Islam will be defeated by Christianity, again. In the name of the Peaceful and loving God, Jesus Christ - Father, Son, & Holy Ghost. The most superior of Gods. Better than Allah. The larger infinity in "the infinite possibility of the love of God."
Victory and peace are near, just like in Iraq. Thousands of dead children and weeping mothers later...Tony Blair is back. I ,for one, am just enamored by his British accent. Lead us, Tony.

blessed are the cheesemakers

Tony Blair, what can I say, what a total disappointment. Your star shot so high, but failed to make the mark. You could have stop Georgie, but chose to make your smear on history. Much like I never once listened to one of Georgie's addresses, I would never cross the street to meet you, nor read a word penned by you. Goodbye you fool, no more stories from beyond the grave.

Where I come from, we don't look to war criminals for our wisdom.

Mr. Blair, do the right thing and go to the Hague. Turn yourself in. You're a Christian? Live a Christian's values by taking responsibility for your actions. This does not mean further enriching yourself and accruing adulation.

Go! You have nothing to tell the civilised world.

I have never understood what is Tony Blair's job, except that being Bush's poodle he was rewarded with a $400000.00 job to do absolutely nothing. I know that part of his salary comes from the UN, which in turn is part of the American tax payer's money to UN.
Blair may get someone to write an eloquent essay, however, actions speak louder than words. He has followed the saying, "Do as I say, not as I do."
Blair is an absolutely worthless politician whose time has passed. He is already a multimillionaire and can very well afford to retire and live the life of a lord in his native country.

Mr. Blair is not interested in making peace, he is interested in having a job making money and stay in the news. He is complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
If he would have been serious in what he writes, he would have visited and done something in GAZA even after the Israeli war crimes by an occupation army.
I don’t know of any religion that allows what Israelis did in GAZA. I don’t recall him condemning Israeli massacre in GAZA or the Sabra and Shatilla Camps. The perpetrator in chief is still in coma.
With people like Tony Blair, who had the chance to be consequential now talking about Peace? Its too late baby.

Blair's a fool who continues to ignore the reality of the Middle East. What does a Baptism Center have to do with equality of religions in Jordan? It allows Christians to come to Jordan, spend money and leave. It's a tourism venture, not anything to do with improving religious relations.

If Blair really wanted to improve relations, he'd ask why it's still illegal for Jews to be citizens of Jordan.

Sadly the Monday Night Specialists are out in droves, lowering the discussion of this important topic to a third-rate seventh-grade locker-room spat. Interfaith dialogue is critical to creating forward movement among the traditional, religious cultures of the Middle East, and around the world. That vacuous imps masquerading as moderns defile their own modernity with drivel, should not color this initiative--even if borne of the American educated royal, Abdullah of Jordan, and detailed by the ever-striving, complex, if at times in the past, woefully-mistaken Mr. Blair. Thank you for this--your foray into post-war diplomatic revival and cultural healing. May it build upon the enormous and honorable efforts of Jimmy Carter, and meet with greater staying power.

Warmonger.
Take your imaginary friend and march right to hell.
SOB

Thanks to Tony Blair for his good work.

I wish your interfaith project well. The three Abrahamic faiths? islam is not a faith or religion, I know they try to make it appear so, but islam is truly just an ideology, an unhappy one at that. If you have any understanding of history you would know that the Crusades were a defensive move after almost 400 years of raping, pillaging, plundering and murdering Christians and Jewish people. You state in your piece;
"But history shows that for much of the time members of the three faiths have worked out ways in which to live together to their mutual benefit and flourishing."
So Mr Blair please qualify your statement with facts, when and where did all three get along. Remember being a Dhimmi is not a way to work out ways to live together, it is islamic sanctioned racism/bigotry. The people subject to this were not flourishing and the only mutual benefit was that the dhimmis were allowed to live as long as no muslim wanted them dead. Your beloved England will soon be a cess pool of dhimmis and hatemongers, and if the USA continues down this course there will be no freedom or peace. islam is not compatible with freedom, tolerance, peace or pluralism. Sorry Mr Blair, your intentions may be good, but.....

Captn_arab, baby! Does your diatribe on the superiority of the Muslim faith preclude you even entertaining my idea of the superiority of Ra,the Egyptian Sun god?
I am downtrodden if, indeed, yes is your answer.
But, dear Captn, I have a way of resolving this issue (if it exists). Why not have a knock down, drag out between my god and yours? Winner take all, OK? Your god loses and you forget about the jerk. You then worship my Sun God.
Deal?
I hear Ra is offering 200 Virgins to your god's 70! That ought to be an enticement you can't refuse!

Anyone who endures Prime Minister's Questions week after week, anyone who maintains an optimistic attitude in the midst of political pressure not seen since World War II, anyone who voluntarily puts his life in jeopardy by traveling to places teeming with terrorists, should be allowed to speak his mind without enduring the 5th grade belching contest as posted here.

"People of different faiths are being brought closer and closer together."
Really? Jeez, Tony. I musta' missed that one.
Particularly throughout the Bush Administration (with his "Crusade" to bring the evil Muslims to justice after 9/11) we see Christians in the US becoming more and more vocally vicious toward the Muslim faith and those who preach it.
And what about Taliban and Muslim terrorists? I see no evidence of Kumbaya toward any other faith on the planet by these guys. And don't give me any crap about these jerks not being representative of the teachings of the Koran--just leaf through this vicious "holy" book and you will see barely a page not referencing the way to direct violence toward the infidel.
Of course, Christianity also has its faults, but probably there seems to be few followers who adhere to the demands of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (although I get the distinct impression that if left to their own devices, the Dobson crowd would gladly stone to death adulterers on the steps of their father's house).
Tony, baby! You need to think outside the box on this one. How about if humanity decided that ALL religions past and present were and are bogus, a fraud perpetrated on the gullible by those who want to control their lives as they see fit?
How about that, Tony? What if we eventually did away with all the hocus-pocus, the spooks, the angels, the ghosts and the gods (who, by their very nature are at war with one another).
Would there then be at least one, major reason not to kill thy fellow man?

The 'infinite possibility of the love of God' was lost at Cleveland’s Hopkins airport some years ago.

Tony Blair a Christian fraud if ever there was one !!!!!

This war criminal stood by as Jewish Military sent Gaza back into the stone age !!!!

Tony Blair, G.W.Bush's "poodle" got the penniless UK into a "war" on lies !!!

How can he have the nerve to show his face in public -- how can the W.P. give him a platform ???

Look at Gaza and see the future ---then go out and do something about it ----like BOYCOTT !!!!

If your Doctor , Dentist , Plastic surgeon etc etc is Jewish ask them if they support Israel bombing Gaza.

If your Doctor , Dentist , Plastic surgeon etc etc is NOT Jewish ask them if they support Israel bombing Gaza

If they do --- take your business elsewhere IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!

Boycott ---Dell computers and Starbucks and Amazon and McDonalds, Coca Cola and Estee Lauder and more !!!!

Any MORE names to boycott for Gaza ???

http://tinyurl.com/hb6rx

Mr. Blair,
speaking of Crusades, they stared well after the Muslim armies conquered the Iberia Peninsula (711 CE) and Sicily and sacked Rome (846 CE). Speaking of a loving Supreme Being, why he created species of obligate carnivores? Seems to me that your beliefs are not rational.

Tony Blair is a wolf in sheep's clothing!

Most of the woes the world faces today was the consequence of the arrogant, antagonistic and criminal policies of George Bush and Tony Blair was the prime accomplice to these crimes.

Tony Blair keeps the interests of the World's largest colonial empire where the sun never set in the past.

Colonialism has changed in form but not in its goals. The Iraq war is a reminder.

Tony Blair should be in jail, under prosecution by the International Criminal Court in La Hague. He as a "peace envoy" in the Middle-East is an insult to all the people who have died there recently, lergely because of this man's lies.

With all due respect for those of good intentions, one wonders... whether the region needs more encouragement for Christian Zionist travel and support, as that branch of Christianity looks to bring Jews back to (all of) Israel to complete *their* apocolyptic vision... or whether Jordan just wants some of those tourist dollars... or whether Blair, in support of the teachings of his new faith's leader, also seeks to diminish Jewish claims of a continuing covenant that doesn't need Jesus for salvation... or...?

How, again, is this about bringing peace?

There is not enough religion that Tony Blair can study or attempt to adopt for himself that will absolve him for the crimes he committed in Iraq.

Christian Zionists are as unwelcome in the world as Jewish Zionists. They are the same thing. Empire builders at the expense of the humans on the planet.

We are experiencing the end results of the partnership between Christian zionists and Jewish zionists and Muslim zionists because we can't ignore the Arab states who are guilty of harming their people in favor of power and wealth.

It starts with the Council for National Policy and the promotion of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson along with the wackjob who thinks he is the Messiah, Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The Jewish zionists who are their partners are AIPAC and people like Sheldon Adelson who owns the Sands Casino in Las Vegas.

Avigdor Lieberman is but one obvious blatant face on what we are all about to witness. Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany and the United States have their own Avigdor Liebermans and the real question for all of us is who gives them permission to rise to positions of leadership?

I'm disgusted that a man who helped cook up a fraudulent case to attack a small, weak country, who helped start the worst and bloodiest war the Middle East has seen in decades, who created thousands of terrorists, hundreds of thousands of orphans, and millions of refugees should dare to write about prospects for Middle East peace.

The best chance for Middle East peace is that war criminals like Tony Blair be prosecuted and brought to severe justice for their crimes.

We already have a law against wars of agression. We just need to enforce it ... on Tony Blair.

//
1. And I believe that we need to capture too that sense of renewal which I feel the Baptism Centre symbolizes.
2. A sense of renewal that true love is not measured in the receiving but the giving. The giving not limited by human prejudice but enlarged by the infinite possibility of the love of God.//
The first statement in some ways diminishes the 'prejducice' premise of second statement.
I know religion is important to a human being because it shows people their inner goodness with respect to their environment.
So, I ask you two questions:
1. Will world leaders political, religious and academic enable each human being, to choose a primary religion and a set of secondary religion for themselves.
2. Would you ever consider choosing 'Hinduism' as your second religion?

I'm appalled that I was actually taken in enough to vote for this sanctimonious, war-mongering hypocrite in 1997.

I pray God will bless Mr. Blair's Foundation as an instrument of peace and mutual understanding, both of which are sorely needed in this world (and which are clearly lacking from many of the comments posted here).

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God."
Christ, Matthew 5:9

Tony Blair's Faith Foundation. HA! The Flying Wallendas had more credibility - Elmer Gantry had more credibility as a Christian than this warmonger.
It is mind boggling to think that any Middle Eastern country puts out the welcome mat to the likes of their enemy, Tony Blair!

He not only voted for the bloody invasion of Iraq, he caused it.
Without his unctuous support, ardently fomenting war smugly alongside the Bush conspirators, there would be over a million Iraqis alive today, thousands of Americans alive, Iraq wouldn't be in shambles, its museums looted ....That Mr. Blair has now propped himself as some sort of saviour of the Middle East is an insult, not only to the Middle Easterners, but Western people of conscience and ethics and principles also.
I wonder how utterly stupid his promoters think we are
God won't forgive Mr. Blair. He is awash in the blood of innocent and defenseless Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians and our own American and your fellow countrymen, Mr. Blair.

When is your cohort in crime, George Bush going to give a speech at your imperial, quixotically named "Faith Foundation", Mr. Blair?

Who is financing this folly, I hope and pray to God, NOT the American taxpayers!

I see those criticizing Mr. Blair’s assessment fall into two classes; Atheists and Islamists.
The Atheists had found a chance to ridicule the beliefs of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, simply to project their ignorance onto a great statesman as a self defense mechanism of the inferiority complex that got them where they are in the first place; not knowing and not knowing why they don’t know.
As to the second class, they are victims of their own failed ideology that got them where they are now, and blaming everyone else for their failures and shortcomings (victim hood). This is is their favorite self defense mechanism and that is why they march backward.

blair was the prime minister of an anti-semitic country. i think he hangs around the arabs too much

I pray that this new baptism site is a source of renewal, and I believe that Mr. Blair means well, but let's look at some recent facts.

Within the last week or so Israelis, not Palestinians, have been embroiled in a needed discussion of their military's killing of innocents and the destruction of their property:

"A Religious War in Israel's Army"--

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22BRONNER.html?em

Last week, Israeli security forces physically prevented a public gathering in East Jerusalem for Arab Day. How can it be said that there is a democracy there and equal rights for Palestinians when this happens in Israel proper even?:

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20090321_ap_israelpolicebanarabculturedayinjerusalem.html

Finally, just today we learn of hateful t-shirts being worn by Israeli soldiers that glorify the killing of innocent children and pregnant Arab women. How can it be that it is only Palestinians and "terrorists" who are heartless if this is the case?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29837969/

So, how can Blair be a Mideast peace envoy starting a foundation for faith all the while pretending that the only problems are Hamas and Hezbollah? How can Blair talk of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ when the nation he led blindly followed the US into a war that turned that sacrifice on its head?

Jesus preached turn the other cheek. It's a little late to get religion Tony. If you are renewed...then at least be honest, just and fair.

Tony Blair was a man who has been complicit in the deaths of many children in Iraq whose souls can never be recovered. This man Tony Blair should still be waiting for forgiveness, still be ready to exorcise his soul.

He is complicit in the greatest conspiracy of modern times and time is running out for him and others more powerful.

Notice carefully my good friends the announcement of prime minister Gordon Brown tomorrow Tuesday 24th March, in what he will call 'a new level' in the 'war on terror'.

Yes, he needs to review terror in Northern Ireland but he is aware that scholars and scientist are inextricably breaking down the official 'truth' of the attacks on the World Trade Center. A once inattentive public in Britain and America is being mustered by a political will to prevail over lies and deception.

This will evolve into a dangerous situation when the majority are convinced not only by the obvious truths that can be obfusticated, covered up or buried, but by the strength of movement. This will mean exposure of the administration and some military leaders.

Gordon Brown is aware these revelations and exposures must lead to more terror, more 'shock & awe' and more loss of freedoms.

As his enforcement plan unfolds we will start to see a 'purge' on activists, students and members of truth movements, a 'purge' to retain order even if the foundations of that 'order' are built on deception.

Mark Golding
Children of Iraq Association

How transparent you are Colin.

If ANYONE makes a comment about religion, you are there, front and center, making comments.

The chip on your shoulder is getting quite ugly.

The God of Abraham is real, dude.

You've shouted down (within yourself) that small voice that whispers "Search me out, I am real, find me, I am the Lord thy God" so many times the voice can't rise above your own selfish nature

Better confront that truth than fight against it at every turn.

Again-

"Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul, and mind,"... and Love your neighbor as yourself"

Do that, and the chip and bitterness will disappear.

It is all well and good to sponsor interfaith encounter and dialog between members of the Abrahamic faiths. In fact, it is a wonderful humanistic act. However, when the rubber meets the road, two of the three Abrahamic faiths are triumphalist. That is they purport to be the most important and final revelation from God. They in essence demand conversion as the true path to God. How interfaith encounter can overcome this almost insuperable obstacle to real understanding between the faiths will remain a miracle to behold.

Why don't you do your species a favor and work to free humanity from religion, rather than waste our time and our lives trying to fix this primitive practice.

These 'three Abrahamic faiths' were invented in a time of barbaric superstition, you're holding on to them is barbaric, to say the least.

Blair writes:

A sense of renewal that true love is not measured in the receiving but the giving. The giving not limited by human prejudice but enlarged by the infinite possibility of the love of God.//

My question: Why does Blair continues to receive when many young men and women 'gave' their lives for an illusion, a lie called Iraq war. They gave so others would be free. What does Blair say now that he is not in office: for the glory of God....his God.

what hypocrisy!!!

thanks for such an opportunity on such a day for this poet pre-hand to speak. regards, L.A. Bursa.

Greetings to Elders that Keep Us Together in Love, in Respect, in Nurture and in Truth. Greetings to Formers, Greetings to Addressors, inviting to Mutual Company and Collaboration.

Greetings to Protectants and Tactful Former Oathers.

Many people would agree that it was not democracy nor weapons of mass destruction that prompted Blair to support President Bush's misadventure in Iraq.

Though wrapped in up to date garb, the invasion of Iraq is an extension of the Crusades.

"sheisst supper, ich heiße lunch"

is there any elder who approves not what You do, Builder Prime Minister? any elder who asks You to remind the full course?

"rustu rencber" is maturity of farmer, hand, agriculture worker. goal keeper is goal keeper : ) i dont dream, sorry.

i hope you come to the star before you seize me fall from a star : )

she is watching us from a star, and want to fall from a star straight into our arms. i hope you come before you seize. sheisst supper, ich heiße lunch.

Rab RAham : from GArden to the House

Rab Raham : graceful teacher.
RAb Raham : from fire to roses and fish.
Rab Raham : from each way to unique way.

and one ball (hammer type)

one hammer (two sided), two axes (one sided and two sided), three swords (rived, curved, straight), one knife (two sided), one nail, one stick (wooden).

B-LIAR wrote "Both Site and Centre are a tribute to the generosity of HM King Abdullah and the Jordanian Royal family".
All this time we thought b-Liar was for democracy in the middle east, so which is it b-liar do you want democracy in iraq, jordan, kuwait or not???

According to the daring but persuasive theory of Robert Eisler (c. 1930) the baptism of John was a ceremony preparing warriors to do battle against the power of Rome. The connections between earliest Christians and Zealots has been obscured by centuries of theology, special pleading, and sheer ignorance.

How disappointing that the ex-prime minister
still believes in a skyfairy. It just goes to show that childhood religious indoctrination - trumps IQ and education.

He should spend a little time with Richard Dawkins, and perhaps read Victor Stenger's
"God; The Failed Hypothesis".

Blair's God is as real as Zeus and Aphrodite.