Praise on, Garth

It's Easter (well, almost - it's Maundy Thursday, on which you are apparently supposed to visit seven churches; I'm up to four) so the Herald opinion page is chock-full of articles on religion. Well, there are two of them - three if you consider a large picture of a church to be an article.

The death of Our Lord has got Garth George in a good mood. I can't really be bothered talking about the whole article, but here are some choice quotes that you can contextualise as you wish:

• "There is always a temptation - and plenty of Christians have given in to it - to use the words of scripture to suit a particular doctrinal, social or political position."
• "And that means we have to be patient and kind and generous and humble and courteous and unselfish and good-tempered and guileless and sincere, which is what being loving means."
• "The only way we can attract people to Christ is to be attractive people."

That's Garth George - patient, generous, courteous, good-tempered and attractive. Quite why the Herald lets him publish whatever crap he wants every week is beyond me. Quite possibly people are afraid to tell him otherwise.

In other news, I'm running a sweepstake on what he will write about next week. Personally, I can't decide between gardening and rape.*

*In terms of what he will write about, obviously.