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Subject: flight from the bleedin' obvious
Author: Ian (Australia)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:34:05 12/12/04 Sun In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "Until we meet again..." on 20:50:29 12/12/04 Sun We still have people who believe that the world was created in six days by a character from a book. [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 00:54:11 12/13/04 Mon

I don't know if you've read Kyril Bonfiglioli's "Moderdecai" trilogy, but in it there's a passage in which the love interests says that she's arranged a marriage with the hero. She says that she went to the Archbishop of Canterbury to ask for a license, and he asked the groom's religion, and she said 'atheist', and he said that that was fine, because so were most of his bishops. The Church of England has been the most successful organisation for dispelling religious dogma and superstition that the world has ever known. Frankly, I suspect that this was what old Henry had in mind at the time. You won't find many Brits who accept the creation myth, I can tell you... Britain is probably the most secular society I've ever known, and this, in my humble opinion, is one of our great strengths.

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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 01:52:39 12/13/04 Mon I'm all in favour of people who don't believe things but have better stuff to do than pick fights with people who do. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 22:47:39 12/13/04 Mon

Alone amongst the contributors to this forum, you and I live in Catholic countries, and as such we know just how excessive religiosity is invariably an anathema to human dignity. If agnostics had a Church, I'd go to it. A rather pointless comment, since they are hardly likely to have one. But, as the bloke said, "Can you imagine a world without any hypothetical situations?"

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