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Britain - A Christian Nation?

J Ed said:
You said

"You know, this is the sort of thing one might expect from an American Republican politician."

Except it isn't, really. Political Christianity in Britain and the USA is very different..
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Politicians espousing the Christian God. Sorry; it's all the same thing in my book. Btw, I'd throw our PM, Harper, into the same basket as well.
 
J Ed said:
I don't think people are that bothered about it either way tbh, .
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Even the Anglican Church admits that Britons are not exactly known for their regular religious attendance.
So when Prime Minister David Cameron claimed that the UK is a "Christian country" that should be "more evangelical" about its faith, it definitely stood out – and stirred controversy.
Now, Britons have found themselves debating whether they should be "proud" of Christianity, or whether such talk risks sowing "alienation and division" in a more pluralistic society.
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http://news.yahoo.com/whats-behind-camerons-embrace-christian-britain-205701394.html

A group of scientists, academics and prominent writers accused Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday of stoking sectarian divisions through his repeated description of Britain as a “Christian country”.
The public figures, including authors Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett, said they respected the Conservative leader’s own religious beliefs, which he has addressed in a series of statements.
But they took issue with his characterisation of Britain saying, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, the country was actually a “plural society” of largely “non-religious” people.
“To constantly claim otherwise fosters alienation and division in our society,” said the 55 members of the group that also included Nobel prize winning scientist John Sulston.
“It needlessly fuels enervating sectarian debates that are by and large absent from the lives of most British people, who do not want religions or religious identities to be actively prioritised by their elected government,” the letter added.
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http://www.christianheadlines.com/b...for-claiming-britain-a-christian-country.html
 
“It needlessly fuels enervating sectarian debates that are by and large absent from the lives of most British people, who do not want religions or religious identities to be actively prioritised by their elected government,” the letter added.
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This bit is absolutely right, I think. And the gutless twats in Labour should be saying it, too.
 
Dr Jon said:
That is a transcription error: it is actually a warning re consequences of hunting Cetaceans.
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Tried to do a search to find out what the hell you're on about and found this instead:

Jesus says in Mark 9:45-46 concerning those who are lost, that they will be "cast into hell, into the fire that shall never shall be quenched: where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched".

We've got an inner spirit worm. I fucking knew it :cool:
 
Yetman said:
Tried to do a search to find out what the hell you're on about and found this instead:
Jesus says in Mark 9:45-46 concerning those who are lost, that they will be "cast into hell, into the fire that shall never shall be quenched: where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched".

We've got an inner spirit worm. I fucking knew it :cool:
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It might've been easier if the post I quoted didn't have the typo in "wailing".
:)
 
SpookyFrank said:
Religion makes it a shitload easier to get a few hundred thousand other people to join in though.
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You haven't stood in a roomful of Pagans have you? Just three can have a sustained tenway arguement. :D

And this is relevant to your point because if getting them to even agree on a defined starting time is difficult, think how difficult getting them to indulge in genocide is.
 
spring-peeper said:
I do.

I've been looking for a thread on this for a while. Why did it take a Canadian to start it?


I will now go and read the thread. Bet the answer is somewhere in the next page or two.
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Have UK-based posters let you down somehow?

Why didn't you start a thread yourself?
 
FridgeMagnet said:
No they haven't. They really haven't.
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What, are you not joining in? It's all peple are talking about round here. In the streets, in the shops and pubs, on the busses, the trains. All you bloody hear is pluralistic society this... Evangelical Christian pride that... The other thing... Sowing.

Honestly it's getting quite dull.
 
ViolentPanda said:
I'd say that a majority of neo-Pagans aren't any more fascist or racist than your average person on the street, and I've met an awful lot of neo-Pagans.
I've also met racist, fascist "blood and soil" types from the Odinic Rite. The majority of them were and are boneheads who are Odinists because they think Christianity is weak, whereas fantasising about carving the Blood Eagle onto a non-white is seemingly strong. :facepalm:
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I saw no problem at all with Cameron referring to the UK as a 'Christian nation', but then I hadn't seen the other bits to what he had said.
In any case, I think the appropriate response would have been 'just ignore the surplus gilded cunt'.
 
Holy fuck! Does Dave really want this sort of thing here?

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An Italian man was crushed to death on Thursday by a giant crucifix dedicated to the late Pope John Paul II, just days before the Polish pontiff will be made a saint in a ceremony at the Vatican.

In a bizarre coincidence, the 21-year-old man was reported to have been living in a street named after Pope John XXIII – who will also be canonised in the ceremony on Sunday, in an event that is unprecedented in the 2,000 year history of the Catholic Church.
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The woolly, liberal Church of England at work:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/not-very-christian-rural-communities-in-uproar-as-250-anglican-churches-use-ancient-rules-to-bill-them-for-thousands-in-repairs-9289590.html

The Church of England has been denounced
as “evil” and “unholy” as parishes around the
country enforce an archaic law dating to
Henry VIII’s reign telling unwitting residents
they could face bills exceeding £100,000 for
building repairs...

A spokeswoman for the Church of England
said the issue was a matter for “individual
PCCs”.
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what the ever living fuck? Tell your vicar to go fuck himself and piss in the font!

If he puts you out of house and home in the name of Yahweh go live in the church you'ebeen forced to pay for!

Stupid apologists and their fucking warped views. Put their heads on spikes!
 
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