Well, this has been an interesting thread. Macgamer, I agree with Cellar Bar ‘you are not broken’ and I applaud you for ‘coming out’ or however you want to term it. I think – on the point of how homosexuality has come to be viewed in the Christian tradition (and by extension the Western World) we ha...
I probably shouldn't be quoting stuff uncritically from a politician's recollections but I think - based on what I have read - what she says is fairly close to the truth. I remember her saying the words. I don't remember her recanting them. Ever. The premise remained long-afterwards and was often u...
thanks for chasing down the quote Humphrey. I'll not take it apart line by line given its size but what I would say overall is that is smacks very definitely of being a revamp of what she actually intended - largely in order to undo the damage that had been created by her original spouting Hi - no ...
What Thatcher was essentially saying was that she did not believe that anyone should have any sense of social responsibilty or involvement with others - even tho living in a country/society which had developed notions such as the NHS or a State education system that was essentially open to all. Tha...
Well this is a very silly survey for a couple of reasons. Firstly many (quite a few of them on the left) have pointed out the limitations of testing children for intelligence at ages 10 and 11; and rightly so. Secondly you can't bracket people into 'left wing' and 'right wing' based on a subset of 1...
Well, i'm now an expat living in the USA and personally I agree with Redcelt and Haunted. I am resident for tax purposes in the US and I pay taxes to the federal government and the state. I no longer pay tax in the UK and I'm actually in the process of claiming tax back off them. So why should I hav...
OK. So the increase of Muslims in the UK has seen their small minority become a slightly less small minority. The number of Muslims isn't (in itself) a problem, just as the number of Christians isn't a problem. If they challenge the secular nature of everyone else (or interfere with those of a fait...
As for racists complaining about the Islamification of European states, listen to the wise words of one such individual Yeah - I mean it sounds like a garbled version of some true events. There were a number of gang rapes in Scandinavia and Australia that were perpetrated by arab immigrants and got...
There were some - I thought - rather alarmist projections published a while ago by right wingers who were predicting the islamification of Europe. This sparked off a series of debates concerning the clash of civilizations between the liberal west and it's supposedly intolerant Islamic minority. Well...
embarrassing wrote:The same 10 or so (and that's being generous) conservative, misogynist assholes who post here are not only making fools of themselves, but make everyone in St Andrews embarrassed by this website.
I see some cranky NU atheist has got to the wikipedia article on 'Faith schools' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_school Many people are critical of faith schools as they state that they teach intolerance, religious belief is linked to low IQ[2] and religious people are more likely to commit a pri...
I might add, though (as a possible point of interest for you), that I have been told that there are some elements of Torah scholarship who hold that the original prohibition against homosexuality among men, correctly understood, is that it is an abomination to have gay sex in the bed you share with...
How did it happen? For centuries, religion was insulated from criticism in Britain. First its opponents were burned, then jailed, then shunned. But once there was a free marketplace of ideas, once people could finally hear both the religious arguments and the rationalist criticisms of them, the rel...
Hmmm. OK. There are, nonetheless, an awful lot of Christians who think that there are. I'm basing the words of many against the words of one Well the many need to get a clue then and re-read the text they are citing. There is plenty of extra-biblical stuff against mastrubation but it tends to be pa...
Thomas Aquinas apparently believed he could fly. No real point to this information but I only learned it recently and it seems worth consideration when discussing the strength of his mental faculties. I dunno if he believed he could fly. There was a legend which emerged after his death that he had ...
macgamer, are you married? Have you ever had sex? Have you ever masturbated? Usually this is between me and my confessor, but to satisfy your curiosity and demonstrate that I'm happy to have this discussion: 1) No 2) No 3) Yes Interesting, what with the bible being very clear about (3); but I guess...
On the basis of all previous exposure to Bean, I approach every new post of his (with unbound joy) on the basis that it will almost certainly be full of errors. If it isn't, I'll assume that his account has been hacked. I guess you are the Red Celt and he (Beany) is the ultimate Tory. If you were B...
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/06/28/appointment-of-anti-gay-bishop-at-top-scots-university-sparks-calls-for-funding-boycott/ On an unrelated note. This site 'Pink News' was founded and run by my bosses's son Benji who is also the technology correspondent for Channel 4 News. We've sold a few gay pr...