With a Professor/Academic as a Dad? That is an environment likely to be rather removed from reality.
According to the Wikipedia article the Professor/academic is his brother.
Regardless, academics, even professors, are just as real and part of reality as everyone else. They may be better off financially than the majority of people in the country and therefore not fully understand the economic situation of people less well off.
It seems to me though that after Conservative politicians the group that really doesn't understand most people's economic situation is retired people with secure pensions who read the right-wing press. The right-wing press usually portrays them as very much more part of reality than academics.
With a Professor/Academic as a Dad? That is an environment likely to be rather removed from reality.
According to the Wikipedia article the Professor/academic is his brother.
Regardless, academics, even professors, are just as real and part of reality as everyone else. They may be better off financially than the majority of people in the country and therefore not fully understand the economic situation of people less well off.
It seems to me though that after Conservative politicians the group that really doesn't understand most people's economic situation is retired people with secure pensions who read the right-wing press. The right-wing press usually portrays them as very much more part of reality than academics.
And nowadays most academics are on badly-paid insecure contracts. It's definitely not a well-paid job for many.
IMO, Christianity, like any belief, is diverse. Politeness can vary, but the essence lies in love and compassion. It's more about individual interpretation.
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I suspect that mainstream C of E Christianity has been to a considerable extent neutered by the 'gentle Jesus, meek and mild' image so beloved of the Victorians (witness the wimpish Christ potrayed in pictures and stained glass in our churches). This is compounded by the national tendency to reticence and tact, which accounts for the national fame for dipliomacy, espionage and hypocrisy.
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Regardless, academics, even professors, are just as real and part of reality as everyone else. They may be better off financially than the majority of people in the country and therefore not fully understand the economic situation of people less well off.
It seems to me though that after Conservative politicians the group that really doesn't understand most people's economic situation is retired people with secure pensions who read the right-wing press. The right-wing press usually portrays them as very much more part of reality than academics.
And nowadays most academics are on badly-paid insecure contracts. It's definitely not a well-paid job for many.
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