To not want to be lectured at

[ShakyBake]

Perhaps just me but as I get older my patience for people in authoritive roles giving lectures on the rights and wrongs and how we should be living our lives has drastically decreased.

Listening to the newly appointed arch bishop of Canterbury and I ended up turning off. Same with prince Charles recently, I can't help but think you people were born roughly the same time as me, what makes you think you know better. Half of them don't practice what they preach anyway especially if it involves oil and then you see them on a private jet

I think I know what you mean and I often think the same.

I have had to listen to A LOT of sermons and 95% of them just irritate me.

Very occasionally you get someone who is wise and knowledgable and yet manages not to sound patronising - that’s a joy.

The rest of the time it’s just platitudes delivered irritatingly by hubristic pricks.

Depends.

I think powerful people using their platform
to point out e.g. that we have to care for the environment is quite a good thing!

If it’s general moralising on things that are subjective and a matter of opinion you’re always free to ignore

It makes me an arse not to believe in God? (That's what you've written.)

We are certainly overloaded with people demanding we educate ourselves on every subject under the sun. It is no longer okay to not know and not understand.

I don't care what either of them have to say, being neither religious nor a monarchist. But I respect their right to say it, and in the case of the AOC, her job is to deliver sermons isn't it? Which is a religious lecture/discourse.

But as I say, neither of them feature in the realm of what I believe or subscribe to. So I don't much worry what they have to say - and I doubt they care what I have to say either!

You can respect someone's right to say something without respecting what they say.

Flat Earthers should be allowed to spout their nonsense and we should respect their right to. We shouldn't respect what they say, though.

Do we honestly think that this intelligent, educated Archbishop really believes that an angel impregnated a peasant woman in the Middle East two thousand years ago and she gave birth to a living god? I don't think so.