Vapid chumminess

For those people of a nervous religious disposition, whatever you do don't click on the play button, you may just be offended to your core by this piece of foul-mouthed, subversive and blasphemous church bashing. Seriously though, how the hell did the BBC end up pulling this little sketch from the iPlayer, what has our pluralistic and supposedly enlightened nation come to when on the same (charity) show jokes about disabled people are fine but jokes about elite, privileged members of the establishment are censored.

“Foul-mouthed” is the wrong phrase, Rowan Atkinson’s offence was simply being accurate, perfectly characterising the cheerfully vapid chumminess of a thoroughly liberal Christian leader. That’s what got people upset, he didn’t just dis religion, he showed the objectors what they looked like through our eyes, and it was so close to how the believers see them too it was a palpable smack in the chops!