Just when I thought I couldn't think any less of the man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16224394
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16224394
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
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David Cameron says Britain is a Christian country.
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 You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. 
These shits are always wrapped in the same package. It's what you get when you vote for a "conservative."
He's actually speaking the truth. The UK's head of state is a monarch, who holds that her (and her family) were chosen by the Christian God to rule the country. The national religion is Church of England, which is a denomination of Christianity. There are 12 bishops as permanent (unelected) members of the House of Lords. I could go on...but I think it's pretty obvious that the idea of "secularism" as it is properly defined means nothing in the UK, and the UK is in fact a Christian country, much as Israel is a Jewish country, and Iran is a Muslim country.
I of course disagree that it should be seen as a Christian country, but as to what Cameron said; it's all factually accurate.
I see what you are saying but it gives the impression that christians have priority and gives christianity too much credit for morality.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. 
It's Christian in name only Tiberius.
David Cameron is a "committed" but "vaguely practising" Christian? Come on, that's an oxymoron. ![[Image: bloodyheretic.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=img849.imageshack.us%2Fimg849%2F8673%2Fbloodyheretic.png) "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." Einstein When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life. - John Lennon  RE: David Cameron says Britain is a Christian country.
December 16, 2011 at 4:40 pm
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(December 16, 2011 at 4:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Just when I thought I couldn't think any less of the man. Technically, he is correct: England is technically a country that is historically Christian, 71.6% of Britons identify as Christian (no matter how rarely they may attend Church), and in order to ascend to the throne, one must be okayed by the government-sponsored Church. We can all debate the utility of a government-sponsored Church (no matter how milquetoast it may be), or even a monarchy, but the fact remains that he's technically correct.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. Quote:but the fact remains that he's technically correct. It's still nothing to be proud of. 
Time to flush the church of england and the monarchy down the loo.
Strangely enough, whenever I hear words like 'committed' and 'vague' I instantly think of Cameron, the thinking man's nonentity. Actually I think his speech might have been a thinly veiled atheist message - compare this:
Quote:the prime minister called for a revival of traditional Christian values to counter Britain's "moral collapse". with this: Quote:"But what I am saying is that the Bible has helped to give Britain a set of values and morals which make Britain what it is today."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(December 16, 2011 at 5:42 pm)Stimbo Wrote: But what I am saying is that the Bible has helped to give Britain a set of values and morals which make Britain what it is today." What it is today is a third rate nation on the margins of Europe issuing one last outburst of helplessness before giving the Hitler Solute to Frau Merkle.  I'll sidle away now... |
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