Fed up of living in an overly religious country? Come to England where the tide is constantly turning 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion...awful.html
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Perhaps we could kick the lilliputans off of Easter Island and rename it Hitchensland.
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You mean the country where this guy was thrown in jail for using Twitter? Lol, no thanks!
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I'd prefer a country that actually has free speech. Britain is increasingly authoritarian.
Escaping religious saturation is a nice thought but then I'd have to deal with the weather over there is Australia any better for religion...oh wait I hate snakes. Shit.
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 (February 10, 2012 at 7:02 am)Darwinian Wrote: Fed up of living in an overly religious country? Come to England where the tide is constantly turningReally, I don't see how this is a victory while the British monarch is also the head of the Church. Meaning, the Anglican Church constitutes the de facto state religion of UK. Now, we were also faced with a similar dilemma: Our monarch(the Sultan) was also the Caliph, meaning, the head of all (sunni) Moslems around the world. So, the Ottoman Dynasty which had lived for more than 600 years was abolished, and its wealth, power and religious significance stripped from it. Obviously after this, came the french definition of secularism, laicite into the constitution. Now, is this the case for the UK? Or like, for America, where there is no state religion, no monarch that is the supposed head of a church, and etc... Really, if you are really so anal-retentive about certain matters, sure, abandon your country, your family and friends for the UK. ![[Image: trkdevletbayraklar.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i128.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp161%2Fazmhyr%2Ftrkdevletbayraklar.jpg) Üze Tengri basmasar, asra Yir telinmeser, Türük bodun ilingin törüngin kim artatı udaçı erti?
For once mehmet you are correct. This is a shallow victory when you consider how unsecular the UK is as a whole.
Similar situation here. Still a fundie nutter country with fundie nutter policy decisions and decision makers (even though we explicitly claim that we are no such thing).
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