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[UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 10:38 am
Yeah, in the last few days Tim Farron leader of the third party in British politics (yes, yes I know they've 1/3 the seats of the SNP, but the SNP are a Scottish party) resigned his position claiming that the climate over the last few years, and over the recent election in particular, have become too hostile to allow christians to take part.
This despite the head of state being head of the state church still, despite the 29 anglican (episcopalian in Yank terms) bishops having permanent seats in the Lords, despite all the PMs over the last forty years being loudly and visibly christian and so on.
What really got Mr Farron's goat was that as a member of the fundie wing of the anglican church (yes, English protestantism has groups as bad as the Westboros, still) he was asked on the campaign trail to give a definitive answer over whether he thought biblical creation was true or false (i.e. the 6,000 year old, flat earth were everything was made as is now) and got in a snit because people (correctly) interpreted his refusal to answer this simple and straight forward question as an implicit admission that he's a creatard and mocked him over it.
Must be really hard being a christard in the UK, no?
PS I though long and hard over where to put this one, here, Politics or News.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 10:46 am
Not much of a Christian to blow off a chance to witness the Word is he ??
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 10:48 am
He should have contacted Trump for advise.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 12:08 pm
That's what happens in a country that has a portrait of Darwin on its currency.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 12:11 pm
The gestation of the Church of England is a laughable (tragic too) pile of horseshit. How it could even be remotely taken any more seriously than Mormonism or Scientology is a wonder of the ages.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 12:53 pm
The First Reformed Voodoun Church is making a similar claim. And they're just as credible.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 1:03 pm
(June 18, 2017 at 10:38 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: Yeah, in the last few days Tim Farron leader of the third party in British politics (yes, yes I know they've 1/3 the seats of the SNP, but the SNP are a Scottish party) resigned his position claiming that the climate over the last few years, and over the recent election in particular, have become too hostile to allow christians to take part.
This despite the head of state being head of the state church still, despite the 29 anglican (episcopalian in Yank terms) bishops having permanent seats in the Lords, despite all the PMs over the last forty years being loudly and visibly christian and so on.
What really got Mr Farron's goat was that as a member of the fundie wing of the anglican church (yes, English protestantism has groups as bad as the Westboros, still) he was asked on the campaign trail to give a definitive answer over whether he thought biblical creation was true or false (i.e. the 6,000 year old, flat earth were everything was made as is now) and got in a snit because people (correctly) interpreted his refusal to answer this simple and straight forward question as an implicit admission that he's a creatard and mocked him over it.
Must be really hard being a christard in the UK, no?
PS I though long and hard over where to put this one, here, Politics or News.
I have never heard anything about Tim Farron and creationism and I am a fervent reader of all things relating to English politics.
The question that did him in was when he was asked about was his views on homosexuality and he fudged the answer, saying something along the lines that that was a private view. Which would have been ok if he wasn't trying to be Prime Minister.
A google search of Tim Farron and his views on creationism garnered zero relevant hits.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 3:03 pm
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Quote:claiming that the climate over the last few years, and over the recent election in particular, have become too hostile to allow christians to take part.
What a marvelous development that would be to behold!
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 3:37 pm
(June 18, 2017 at 1:03 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I have never heard anything about Tim Farron and creationism and I am a fervent reader of all things relating to English politics.
The question that did him in was when he was asked about was his views on homosexuality and he fudged the answer, saying something along the lines that that was a private view. Which would have been ok if he wasn't trying to be Prime Minister.
A google search of Tim Farron and his views on creationism garnered zero relevant hits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33580567
He was also asked questions about his beliefs of the age of the earth on campaign and ducked them.
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RE: [UK]Leader of the Lib Dems resigns claiming religious persecution
June 18, 2017 at 3:56 pm
(June 18, 2017 at 12:08 pm)chimp3 Wrote: That's what happens in a country that has a portrait of Darwin on its currency.
Only until September, when he evolves into plastic Jane Austen.
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