Church of England near to civil war

[Griffin NoName]

If you believe in unprovable supernatural/superstitious stuff then...................

but, but, it is isn't unprovable supernatural/superstitious stuff........... it's all in the bible innit?

[beagle]

If you believe in unprovable supernatural/superstitious stuff then...................

but, but, it is isn't unprovable supernatural/superstitious stuff........... it's all in the bible innit?

You know my view on that. I still think it's fishy all these supposedly Middle-Eastern apostle types had English names like John or Peter.

[Griffin NoName]

If you believe in unprovable supernatural/superstitious stuff then...................

but, but, it is isn't unprovable supernatural/superstitious stuff........... it's all in the bible innit?

You know my view on that. I still think it's fishy all these supposedly Middle-Eastern apostle types had English names like John or Peter.

That's the New Testement. I don't do the NT. The OT has much more imaginative names. Like Rebecca. Or was it Rachel?

[Swatopluk]

True, Beagle, but for myself, I am fascinated to watch them tearing themselves apart yet again.     Also, I am always grateful for the ammunition they are thereby handing out to dyed-in-the-wool extreme atheists like me.

Praise God and pass the ammunition  (I think there is a song on that)

[Swatopluk]

While we are at the topic of nasty aspects of religion:
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/12/a-new-timely-study-links-religion-and-racism-duh/

[Aggie]

Isn't that generally true for any system that encourages 'us vs. them' dichotomization?  I will concede that this dichotomization is too often the whole point of religion.

[Sibling DavidH]

I agree, Aggie:

Religious groups distinguish between believers and nonbelievers and moral people and immoral ones. So perhaps it's no surprise that the strongly religious people in our research, who were mostly white Christians, discriminated against others who were different from them—blacks and minorities.

In the UK football supporters also tend to exhibit racism when shouting for their teams.

[beagle]

Verrily I say unto you pisseth not off the ladies of the parish, for they haveth control over the debit cards.

[pieces o nine]

^ Wot thee beagle saith.


I've recounted elsewhere the purses snapping pointedly shut when an over-enthusiastic Gideon waxed on and on to a congregation of mostly upper-class female heads of households and businesses the importance of Submitting to Their Husbands in Godly Humility on his annual  begging-for-money  missionary appearance.

[beagle]

If the vicar of my Justice of the Peace/ex hospital matron aunt had tried that he'd have been able to sing descant in his own choir.

I wonder if it means the Duke of Edinburgh is now head of the C of E?