Paper Monitor
12:07 UK time, Friday, 6 June 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Britain used to be a religious place. Now it appears religious people can only generate confusion in the heathen masses.
The coverage of Big Brother in the papers shows how things have changed.
In the Guardian, Mark Lawson says: "The 16 includes two Catholics, two Muslims and a Christian." Paper Monitor is no theologian but isn't Catholicism a denomination of Christianity?
Lawson suggests the move represents an "Armageddon strategy" and over in the Daily Mail there's also angst.
They say: "In an apparent effort to create religious tension, a devout Christian, a Muslim convert and a Buddhist have also been included in the mix."
So let's get this straight. Putting people of different religions into a room together is, in and of itself, spoiling for a fight?
But both the Mail and Guardian are models of sensitivity compared with the Sun which labels the Christian Sylvia as a "BIBLE BASHER".
Over in the Mirror it's more restrained but there's still some interest in the spiritual aspect. The competitors' zany qualities - such as looking like Sylvester Stallone or being famous in Croydon - are highlighted with pink bubbles on their pictures. Lisa's says "BELIEVES IN GHOSTS" while Sylvia's says "CHURCH ON SUNDAYS".
Zany, eh?
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