Celtic fans saw a moral line in the sand over Robbie Keane, and they were entitled to draw it. This was about conscience, not bigotry, and the critics know it.
Separation of church and state is often treated as neutral governance, but that neutrality becomes difficult to sustain once we distinguish theology from metaphysics. Theology may be separable from governance; metaphysics is not. Every state still operates through assumptions about truth, justice, rights, human nature, authority, and harm.
Brilliant piece Andy, it's not just about politics per se it's about being decent human beings and having empathy for your fellow human beings who are being killed in a mass genocide that's the tall and the short of it. You can't claim moral outrage about Russia invading Ukraine whilst not having the same outrage about what's going on in Palestine, no war or mass genocide has more importance than any other you can't simply be selective in your outrage, war is war and genocide is genocide and to be classed as antisemitic for standing up for a cause you believe in is just an insult to people's intelligence and those stenographers insisting that that's what Celtic supporters are doing is minimising and trivialising an issue that is morally and ethically wrong.
FIFA etc have no right to say that politics and football should be kept separate when they fawn over Trump and present him with fake trophies to stroke his ego. It really is sickening.
It's about fellow human beings and if it was Israel I'm sure we would show our support to them but it's not.
Separation of church and state is often treated as neutral governance, but that neutrality becomes difficult to sustain once we distinguish theology from metaphysics. Theology may be separable from governance; metaphysics is not. Every state still operates through assumptions about truth, justice, rights, human nature, authority, and harm.
https://www.godobjectively.com/p/metaphysics-is-not-theology?r=5sns35
I don't like to see politics or religion for that matter infiltrate any level of sport.
I'm glad this never became an issue or came to fruition, with the sensible appointment
of Martin Neil and the same backroom staff.
Brilliant piece Andy, it's not just about politics per se it's about being decent human beings and having empathy for your fellow human beings who are being killed in a mass genocide that's the tall and the short of it. You can't claim moral outrage about Russia invading Ukraine whilst not having the same outrage about what's going on in Palestine, no war or mass genocide has more importance than any other you can't simply be selective in your outrage, war is war and genocide is genocide and to be classed as antisemitic for standing up for a cause you believe in is just an insult to people's intelligence and those stenographers insisting that that's what Celtic supporters are doing is minimising and trivialising an issue that is morally and ethically wrong.
FIFA etc have no right to say that politics and football should be kept separate when they fawn over Trump and present him with fake trophies to stroke his ego. It really is sickening.