That might be valid had they never been edited and redacted, but they have. Which makes using them as support for one another as valid as describing a wolf on the basis of Grimm's fairy tales.
We're getting lost in the numbers here, the point about the Christian country was that people raised in Christian countries are usually Christian and people raised in Muslim countries are usually Muslim. That point stands, it matters not a whit that you don't think most people in Britain profess Chr...
Hmm. The problem with that is, which God of the Bible? Why are you not Jewish? And having decided that God must be triune (which is quite a leap, but by no means the biggest logical disconnect of Christian theology) why the particular strain of Christianity you follow? Does Arianism have no appeal, ...
My point was only that if you are somewhere where blasphemy is a crime and it is punishable then no amount of appealing to the divinity of pencil sharpeners or demanding a proof of God's existence will save you. Personally, I don't give a monkey's what you say about my God, but I'm not a theocratic ...
You can blaspheme against someone else's God in the same way as you can commit a crime in someone else's country. I don't agree with Saudi Arabia's laws on homosexuality, for example, but I don't get to say while there "yes, but in MY country...", so equally if you're in a place where blas...
There have been, according to the quickest glance at WikiPedia, 131 resolutions concerning Israel. Of those, how many were vetoed? And of those which were vetoed, how many sought to portray Israel in the same fair and balanced way you just did?
Sorry to go back up the thread, but in respect of the Rector. As he was not long in office, am I right in thinking that the solidarity people did not go through the Students' Association or him? And is his statement that this direct action was more effective than going through him not, therefore, ta...
There's no call to, your post re-iterates what has been said elsewhere. The form of words you have chosen to couch it in makes it sound like a great achievement, the form of words others have chosen makes it sound like it was not. Given the actual, tangible, results I would say the latter form is cl...
Ensure effective representation of, and communication with, the St. Andrews Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in the processes and reviews with regards to ethical research and procurement. That one seems odd. Does being in solidarity with Palestinians provide one with an unique insight into what is a...
Also, nobody on this thread has advocated actually changing the dating, Hennessy, only really noted the actual increasing use of BCE and CE as abbreviations for those numbers. Those terms are definitely appearing a lot more frequently in historical works and I see no reason to liken them to creating...
Yes, that is annoying. There was a time when it was AC and AD though, Ante Christum and Anno Domini. One additional strength of BCE and CE, of course, is that if you want to, you can believe that the C is Christian rather than Common. Or Current if the mood takes you.
I find it amusing that you paid so little attention during Kevin Dunion's campaign. Even if three months is not an incredibly long time, he WAS a student at this University for four years. If you were present at either of the times he addressed the occupation, you would know that in his time here h...
Not to mention that a) the birth of Christ is by no means a certain date and b) that different bits of Christianity have counted in different ways since then. Not all, for example, adopted the Gregorian calendar reforms. The use of "standard" dating is a very recent phenomenon and owes an ...