Tony Blair has challenged the “entrenched” attitudes of the Pope on domino pushing, and argued that it is time for him to “rethink” his views.

Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now a Roman Catholic, said that he wanted to urge religious figures everywhere to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal.

Blair said “This whole nuts thing about dinosaurs living with Jesus and the world being two thousand years old is ridiculous. The Bible is just one big fairytale to scare kids. Everybody knows that.”

Speaking about the Pope he said “Dude is like 107 years old. He grew up when domino pushing was still regarded as some kind of witchcraft, the act of which would instantly turn you to stone”

Mr Blair, who now travels the world on behalf of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which aims to promote understanding of the main religions, left the Church of England for Rome soon after leaving office in 2007.

Blair continued by saying that the Pope was out of touch with most of the religious population; “Most people have the Internets, they have Google and Wikipedia, and most of them know that dinosaurs existed millions not thousands of years ago and that slipping your knob up someones bum won’t cause you to spontaneously combust”