Morning Joe: Tony Blair on religion/Jon Stewart 09/19/08

[DYORPEEPS]

Blair: " I want to try and get people of different faiths to live together, to understand each other and respect each other"

Interviewer: "And how do you do that?"

Tony: "By bombing the shit out of them"

[poobear1ful]

He's a satanist sponsering satans false prophet and won't rise untill i allow him to, moses ;-)

[hansson2000]

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*"backwards" like there exist a striaght line towards some given future that we can ALl see united? lol

[ExtremeBogom]

I'm not ashamed to say I always had a respect for Blair, despite disagreeing with some decisions he made. 

He is well spoken, and polite.

[Gracelandification]

Atheism is a Religion, because you believe, you have faith there is no God without proof. When you die, it is only then you see the truth.

Go back to the definition of faith. Faith is believing in something without proof. Religion is a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. Atheism is defined as the doctrine or belief that there is no God. Therefore Atheism is a religion.

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Allen West 2012

[yunged]

@ExtremeBogom Atheism is NOT faith based, Atheism just means a lack of a belief in something, if you claim to KNOW that no god exists then that would be faith based

[ExtremeBogom]

@yunged

Yes, Atheism is a rejection of supernatural forces.

But remember, seeing as God's existence cannot be proved or disproved, you are left to choose.

I choose to reject the notion for endless reasons, which I'm sure you share with me.

However I can not claim to know the absolute truth of it. No one can. Despite the evidence in our favour.

Btw faith is the belief in something, an idea, or a person. Your talking about *fundamentalist* belief.

[yunged]

@ExtremeBogom I am an athiest regarding the tooth fairy, i don't believe in it because there isn't suficient evidence, is that a religion too? if so then we are all a member of an infinite number of religions as there are an infinite number of possible things to dismiss due to lack of evidence, atheism doesn't claim to KNOW anything, it just doesn't hold an irrational belief and so isn't faith based!

[ExtremeBogom]

@yunged

Yup.

[shneakacious]

Ridiculous interview. .

[hoffabrando]

Tony Blair sold you out politically into the EU, now he is selling you out spiritually. Back to the catholic control again, England once a beacon of light an empire, were has it gone, are you all so blind.

Look up your history; popery is the enemy of man. Counter reformation almost complete. Without the reformation there would be no British empire or America, you would be still a catholic living in superstition being robed by your priests,

living like peasants. wake up.

[arabiansanchez]

@hoffabrando You think the British Empire was a good thing? You need more history lessons.

[hoffabrando]

@arabiansanchez

I think we all do, but its all about who will rule, the popes past kingdom was the Holy Roman Empire, 800 AD. German Charlemagne, 1st Reich, Germany started both worlds Wars, it was a attempt to revive the Holy Roman Empire, second Reich, and third Reich,

Now that Europe is so called united the 4th Reich will emerge, REICH MEANS EMPIRE, CHURCH AND STATE. The end of Democracy. Do you think religion should gov politics, if so which one.

[arabiansanchez]

@hoffabrando I'm rather anti-religious. I shan't bring my negativity in to this space though. It's not relevant to the video. I dislike the whole idea of religion and law being related. I would prefer no religion in the politics of my country.

[hoffabrando]

@arabiansanchez

I agree with you,

but thats a bit hard to stop with two billion catolics, and a man claiming to be theThe vicar of god on this planet, and thinks it is his right to rule both religion and politics,

All at the expense of the non-believer, a big clash is indeed coming. While the Papacy attempts to gain control again, pace

[pammyoneto]

Yony Blair is known as Tony B LIAR. This man should be charged with crimes against humanity. He went into number 10 Downing Street with very little in way of property and financial wealth. He left as a multi millionare.

While our son`s and daughter`s are being sent to the middle east and all those INNOCENT people dying. B LIAR swans around the world earning BLOOD MONEY. The MAN is EVIL.

[richievegas01]

I love John Stewart's show but he was completely toothless with Blair. 'Hey Tony, why are we in Iraq? Is it because you and your buddy Dubya made up a load of shit and expect us to believe it?' Pathetic. Blair walked all over him like he always used to with UK interviewers. Liar.

[Ezra1Jesus1Disciple]

Tony Blair speaks of where there is ignorance there is fear - true. How can there be peace in a doctrine that teaches "Kill the Mushrikun (unbelievers) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush..." Surah 9:5. Also see Surah 9:29.

[Ezra1Jesus1Disciple]

Religion is not the answer, nor politics etc, The Answer for peace is having a personal individual relationship with God through Jesus Christ!

[Ezra1Jesus1Disciple]

Works we see in the faith of islam is what you see around the world for example. Bibleprobe(dot)com/muhammed(do­t)htm

[cbak12sg]

Interesting those two keep calling him "Mr Prime Minister", a form of address he hadn't been entitled to for well over a year. In fact, interviewers in the UK called him "Prime Minister" or "Mr Blair".

[boomtao]

The extend to which religulous folks can live together peacefully is tantamount to the extend that they do not really believe that nonsense they say they do believe. Religious "extremist" are only extreme in their level of faith. Moderate religulous folks cherry-pick from their scriptures. Moderates are half sane (the secular half). After all those religion do proclaim murder, war, division, brainwashing, etc.

[thegreatfearblog]

It's interesting that there are people that actually believe Tony Blair is a Christian as he keeps repeating all the time. In my video about him I state in no uncertain terms who he really is working for and the what is the purpose of these lies. Please watch it an you will understand better why he keeps repeating this incredible lie!

[1948mc]

@thegreatfearblog The knowledge, that`s what he misses.

[thegreatfearblog]

What a bunch of lies. Tony Blair was ordered to feign a very public conversion to Catholicism to divert the attention and the blame or the war from its real architects, the jewish neo-cons. When the whole world was coming to finally realise the obvious, that the monsters behind the war for greater israel, sorry, the war for democracy in iraq, were the zionist neocons and media moghuls, like a cheap illusionist he draws the attention to his "christian faith", with the aid of the media. Fantastic!

[thegreatfearblog]

What a scam! Tony Blair was told to pretend to convert to Catholicism to divert the attention from his puppet masters, and thus divert the attention from the real architects of the war. Could he really have single handedly lead an entire country to a war, a war which was impossible to justify through normal reasoning? Of course not! For a more realistic take on Blair and his puppet masters please watch my video "A day in the life of British propaganda television".

[nickbarnes8]

total reptilian...check his right eye during the interview...weird

[Tuppington]

Jon Stewart skewered Bush.

[ZSNYC1]

Tony Blair has lost his mind. Seems to be a complete disconnect with reality.

[jackfruit22]

Most opportunist individual, bar none.

[sabo1912]

What a tremendous cunt Blair is.

[olehomer88]

Tony was one of the best PM ever. And especially he kicked Saddams ass and give Iraq a chance to build up a democracy. Imagine the Iran Iraq issue today with nuclear weapons.

[richevans10000]

Tony Blair is a good guy and he's definately right in most things he says. But religion is for fools. Once we ditch religion we can start to meet our potential.

[Glenmead]

Keep praying to that GOD for the lies you have told and the ONE MILLION DEAD IRAQIS.......

You sir are a fucking Satanic scumbag..

FUCK YOURSELF

[eqsmooth]

Why does Mika exist? What is she doing? Marking up her Cliff's notes? She is the daughter of one of the most respected, intelligent and honest statesmen in this century. WTF? She just doesn't care. She is so bored here. Is that it? BTW, There will never be peace in the M.E. That is at least 51% Israel's fault. Finally, Blair is a farce and he proved it by supporting the wars and working with Bush.

[sblackt]

Fuck Blair- A Brit.

[Bugeda]

fuck the globalist, and fuck the NWO

[MrDragon1968]

Just a point here, and not that I'm a fan, but John Major was the British PM that embraced *started* the NI peace process. However, in real fact, it was people like David Trimble that actually started it. Blair just carried it on forwards, from Major, from the British PM side.

[blite13]

Blair is touring , trying to convince the young that we all need to be under a One Global government. That having uniqueness is wrong, no more nations, just one world government and currency. This is a converted catholic who is pushing a one world government. Look at Blair's face when the guy brings up the "catholic' question. He is taking orders straight from the Vatican, the place that shows the pope's throne with an upside down cross. An obvious smear to the Good Lord.

[dobbo996]

If people in the UK had known that Blair was so strongly influenced by his religion he would have been thrown out of power. His religious views are unpopular in the UK.

[freekicking85]

dobbo996 - very true, religion mixed with politics are frowned upon in britain. This is because (rightly in my opinion) there is a perception of a conflict of interest.

Mainly because to be religious indicates a lack of rational thought.

I.e. George Bush saying God told him to invade Iraq.

[tomheppy]

kind of true

[firmitas68]

@dobbo996 Are Brits bigots?

[crake2]

@dobbo996 So are his warmongering, sociopathic views.

[JesusGodHolySpirit3]

@dobbo996 May I ask what his belief is?

[danny88101]

When will America learn not to call our leaders 'Mr. Prime Minister' or 'Prime Minister Blair'? It's wrong, we've had PMs since before your country was born and have never referred to them that way.

[judopathoftruth]

its manners as well formalities.

[dracpcpp]

so what do you refer to them as? in oz we typically use 'pm' unless it's something official. but then again we shorten everything.

[schchen2000]

Never will! The fact that you don't like it or you don't do it that way does not mean America can't address your leaders that way. It is as simple as we call something an "apartment," which you call a "flat." I'm not an American by the way, just an expat.

[bringmemybow]

Blair can only be popular in the USA, because those guys still believe in GOD.... He couldn't even talk about his Religion when he was Prime Minister in Britain, for fear of alienating him self from the electorate.

[amet1980]

"big friend and fan of managers.."

can get more truth from b-lair mouth than that..

indeed he served well.

[Damis101]

Ohhhh, a southern baptist.  That explains a lot! Religion causes more violence in the world than anything else. Evangelicals don't care about better education, science, or anything beyond their "sacred" scriptures. They purposely keep themselves ignorant and then brag about it.

[danny88101]

Actually if you'v actually studied history (clearly you haven't) you would realise that it is political ideals that have killed the most people. Recent examples include Sovietism and Nazism.

[jeckert8888]

Yes that may be true. But remember how Hitler ruled his regime and his entire empire? By replacing himself with Jesus, by declaring that in a sense he was a prophet - the Fuhrer Religion still had a lot to with Hitler coming into fruition man.

...The *effect* of religion though , especially organized religion, is definitely uniting the few while dividing the many - and that makes it catastrophically dangerous. Political ideals is probably number one, but religion is number two.

[Crosskeys]

I agree, insofar as the political ideals of Hitler and Stalin have been the largest, most easily idetifiable causes of genocide. However, lookiing back over history - 9/11, spanish inquisition, the crusades etc, religion has been the most consistent reason for conflict.

[danny88101]

Crooskeys; 9/11, spanish inquisition, the crusades etc don't even begin to get close to the numbers killed by the Soviet Union - 20 million by Stalin, 60 million by Mao. Not even close.

[johnnyvi]

Maybe this is a total invalid point, but during the crusades they didn't have the equipment for killing as many as the ones you mentioned. It took about 10 years to travel to the next city in those days.

[tuibrogue]

"Faith brings people together." I find that rather a joke.

[amet1980]

religion i he last resort of any impostor...

which tony b-lair is a master of...

[Hell0Larry]

What Blair is talking about is a One World Religion, and a One World Government. Which is prophesied in the Bible. When this happens (which is coming soon) the End Times will be very near. Don't be fooled by these Globalists. They adhere to Lucifer. The New World Order is evil.

[FreddisGorcher]

Haha they call him Mr Prime Minister, but he had stepped down from that position by then. Oops.

[Film2517]

He keeps the title even when he leaves office, its the same with the american presidency

[017524062]

You're wrong about this. American presidents keep their title when their term ends, but British Prime Ministers don't.

[Crosskeys]

Yeah, you're right. The only title a Prime Minister retains after resignation is "The right honourable".

[JAMIE6SUPERSTAR]

this is good feed pepole christion are starting to suck a litle less

[wayland063]

tony blair is a liar and a thief, globalisation isnt bringing people together its pissing people off.

People do need to come together but against what this twat is saying, no global no NAU out of EU, and tell zionists to leave palestine alone grrr and his conversion is purely to become euro president double grr

[djlookwood]

"Talking about peace without being prepared to see the roots of violence in childhood is like wanting to heal a person by covering up and ignoring a giant abscess. Abscesses must be seen and well treated to heal."

Alice Miller

[deppjj2000]

Treat politicians with a lot more respect in the US, HA. They make fools out of them, and to be honest most of them are fools. American politics is a joke, it's like a movie, it's extreme, it's wild, it's uncontrolled. In the US, politics is like American Idol. Contestants give their sob stories, and lie about their characters, and just hope the American people are dumb enough to believe it. Which of course, they usually are, Obama could be different though. I love Blair, wonderful person.

[SupraJulie]

My fellow Americans love Tony Blair. I believe that even those who completely disagree with him (though I don't know anyone who is strongly opinionated about the way that the English run their government) are at least charmed on some level.

However as far as the media goes the only people who are 'allowed' to show contradiction to politicians in public are political analysts and commentators, not the general news media. They are fair game for everyone else.

[hi262779]

Judging by this video, they seem to treat politicians with a lot more respect in america than they do in the UK

[lapse19]

is that a good thing?

[hi262779]

I'm not sure. Good in some ways, bad in other ways.

[Prunesqualer]

We need peace makers working on a deeper level than Blair. For starters we need to acknowledge that in the western world we have benefited from historical accidents. We need to make sacrifices, rather than the easy rout (exploiting our gains). Peace gains in northern Ireland could never have been achieved with the empty tokenism that is offered in the middle east.

[Tim733733]

One of the best leaders the world has ever seen. Period.

Of course, there's always going to be the usual band of liberal lefties on here who use 50 usernames and go around claiming 9/11 was caused by aliens, but most normal, educated people ignore those knuckle draggers.

[ronald2394]

Tim733733. Its good to know that Yanks love a good ass kisser. Blairs is your man when puckering up is needed.

[minimacca999]

yeah you right cos there were only about 50 people at the massive war protests in london before the iraq war

[Tim733733]

Not at all, there's two millon muslims in the UK, although they understand you're protesting in favor of mass murderers and those that murder girls daring to go to school (great work chump). They combined their main march with the Countryside Alliance's protest against the ban on fox hunting, but still only got a protest level far less than the poll tax and G7. Last protest was a few thousand, mainly hippies and the same suspects that protest everything. Facts are lost on people like you anyway.

[minimacca999]

estimations of the size of the pre war protests range from 750,000 to 2,000,000, given a population of roughly 60,000,000 this is massive. The poll tax got somewhere between 180,000 to 250,000 and i'm not sure which G7 protest your talking about but none of them have come anywhere near that size. And the poll tax led to the downfall of thatcher.

[minimacca999]

And actually i quite like facts

[Tim733733]

That figure is simply wrong and based on Saddam's best friend George Galloway in his quote to Sky News. Remember, Google is great for finding news article archives, and I quote from the same Sky News article citing Galloway with the news that: "However, Met Police figures estimated the march drew around 150,000 protestors." And it also confirmed that it was several marches in one, including the Countryside Alliance against the ban on fox hunting and the UK Muslim Council.

[minimacca999]

Okay i got my stats original from the bbc which i trust a lot more than sky but after a lot of effort i found a police source. Go to the metropolitan police authority website and search for "Joint Annual Report of the MPS and MPA 2002/03" at the bottom of page 30 it says there were 750,000 people for the anti war protest, it happened on the 15th feb 2003 i can find no reports of a CA protest happening on the same day.

[DYORPEEPS]

@Tim733733 Where do you get your 'facts'? Met Police reported around a million people were at the anti-Iraq war march. There was no march with the countryside alliance, idiot.

[measuringtape123]

@DYORPEEPS Met police said about 2/4 of a million there was in fact over 2 and half million the largest protest in human hisory. I was there. Where do you get your facts, idot.

[DYORPEEPS]

@measuringtape123 Who are you calling idiot? I was responding to Tim733733, Blair fanboy, who was trying to claim the figures for the march were exaggerrated and that the Countryside Alliance were there too! But he obviously can't be bothered to respond because he looks like a schmuck.

I was there too, thank you. Try reading before you start calling someone an idiot.

[ronald2394]

What is he teaching. How to send kids to their deaths for a few pounds in his ass pocket. How to ruin his political party for aforsaid pounds in his ass pocket. How to start a war then run away from it (his speciality). How to become peace envoy to middle east to check out more cash benefits. Or just be himself....A two faced greedy grinning twat....oh yes thats the lesson he can teach.

[taxcouncil]

hey joe....he aint a prime minister f u ck witted yankie t wa t

[Minttzz]

Why's Pete Hamill speaking so slowly? Does he think Blair doesn't understand English properly?

[Minttzz]

Yeah, he only became a Catholic to please the wife.

[Minttzz]

Doh. Don't call him "Mr Prime Minister" dumbfucks. That was his old job. I know Americans Presidents keep their title for life, but being PM is just a job, not a title for life.

[borwick007]

Mr prime minister?? Former! research your guest particularly when it's one of the most influential figures in the world today. Blair to polite to correct him (and her). bit on the daily show was funny as tho. love Blair xxxxxxxxxx

[PinkFloydFan74]

It's not as stupid as you think. Consider that Americans still refer to former leaders as 'Mr President'.

I agree it was a brilliant interview. I miss Tony Blair :(

[Minttzz]

Are you kidding? On the Daily Show Jon Stewart introduced him as theformer prime minister of England and asked if he was going to be paid in Euros. What a numbnuts.

[ronald2394]

Blair does not care how he is paid, as long as he is paid. He wears a change belt. And you can swipe your credit cards through the cheeks of his arse

[seanykc]

Tony Blair= Destroyer of everything old labour stood for.

[VHSpal]

I like Tony, I wish we still had him as PM instead of the decaying lump that he left behind.

[ronald2394]

That decaying lump has more substance in his little finger than that big eared grinning troll has in his treacherous corpse. Wow am I getting carried away or what. That swine Blair gets me going.

[marthavell]

What was the interviewer meant to say, "oi, Tony"? When he started the interview?

[tkn02nb]

it's Mr Blair, its not like in the US where you stay Mr President for life, he goes back to just Mr Anthony Blair

[petewaite]

Middle east peace envoy?

fucking hell!

He did well in Northen Ireland and to a lesser extent Kosovo, but he did nothing but damage in the middle east.

[politirel]

The Americans loved Tony, because Tony was a US arse licker, someone who did America's bidding in the world, American's love people like that!

[ronald2394]

Well said politirel.

[andid]

Religion becomes a force that pulls people apart as globalization continues. That's why religion is dying, and charity is growing.

[barukkhazaddum]

"Mr. Prime Minister"? Prime Minister is a position, not a title. And he isn't it any more. You'd think if you were interviewing somebody as high profile as Tony Blair you'd at least research the proper title.

[kickstimulation]

They're used to the American tradition of calling ex-presidents president

[JMSox]

He's not American.

[20343787]

He may not be American but that is who the audience is. He is on an American show in America talking to Americans.

[JMSox]

Haha oh how you have much to learn about the world. He is no longer Prime Minister, and in the UK only the current PM has that title. It is not America.

[20343787]

I know. All I am saying is he is in American culture. That's how we do things. If it was somewhere else than it would be different. You would not say David Beckham plays football. You would say he plays soccer. Different countries have different says and do things differently.

[JMSox]

We call your ex-presidents 'Mr. President' because we know how your government system works, and the British public know that. The least you could do is research the country you are going to be interviewing and give us that same respect. It shows a lack of professionalism as a broadcaster if they do not know the simplest of things. No matter the audience it does not make someone what they are not. Sorry.

[20343787]

what? The only thing I am saying is you appeal to your audience.

[JMSox]

Right, but lets try assume that the audience is educated.

[ronald2394]

They wont be educated if they go to that bastards lessons. He is a stinking judas who let his own people and the people of the middle east down. He is a disgrace to humanity. I bet you can tell that I am not a fan. I hope he comes down big style. Real soon.

[sb1282000]

faith for a war criminal and a lier...ru having a laugh?

[themetalicarus]

Yes true, I'm sure you'll not hear the real truth in his class - Globalisation is the vehicle for centralisation of power and corporate control, and organised religion is psychological fascism - used for centuries to control the masses...

[wilma111]

WELL SAID!!! He should be tried for war crimes along with both bushes!