Did I imagine it? Or was there a weird item on the Sunday programme on Radio 4 this morning… about the Vatican beatifying nearly 500 priests in Spain who'd been against the socialists in the civil war and were killed?
"Coincidentally" the Spanish socialist government are trying to bring in a new law to ban any memorials to those who died on the other side, including any in churches, or even streets named after them. (Presumably they'll be expunging them from the history books too?)
"We're against fascism, so much so that we're bringing in a new law to tell you what you're allowed to say"?
(Of course, I shouldn't believe what I hear on Radio 4.)
The state is fighting against the church, just as a good socialist regime should, while, at the same time, the programme said, the church in Spain could not survive without government subsidies? So the government is subsidising them like a lame-duck industry?
Just goes to show how a government uses its subsidies as a political weapon to control and shape whatever it subsidises, for its own political ends. Subsidise nothing, I say.
Is it just me or is that all a bit weird?
