Do you think Britain should be proud of all she has achieved?
Considering its size and population the rainswept island of Britain has given the world proportionately more than any other nation on earth. Britain has given the world its number 1 international language.English is the native language for millions throughout the planet and the 2nd language for billions more. We invented Parliamentary Democracy and legal systems - since adopted by nations throughout the world. Isaac Newton and his theories on gravity,maths,astronomy, physics,laws of motion,optics & prisms are still used as the basis for all science worldwide. Charles Darwins' Theory of Evolution transformed human beings understanding of ourselves and our place in the natural world. More recently in the 1980s Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. ritain started the Industrial Revolution with all its world changing pioneering engineering,mechanical,manufacturing and scientific techniques - the world's first steam engine, first train etc..... The sports of cricket,rugby, and football (the worlds' favourite game) all came from Britain. More importantly,Britain gave the world punk rock,heavy metal, glam rock, psychadelia,the punk/ska two tone revolution and street styles and fashions-'tudors' (teddy boys), skinheads (the proper ones),mods,punks,goths,new romantics - most now found throughout the world. Britain has produced a mass of internationally renowned literature which has since passed into folklore.This includes Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' which first introduced to the world the concept of the zombie.Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was the world's first 'undead' vampire. British literature bequeathed the classics of Shakespeare,and Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol/Scrooge,Oliver Twist,Great Expectations),works by Roald Dahl (Matilda,Charlie & The Chocolate Factory,The Witches) and HG Wells(The Time Machine,War Of The Worlds) Alice In Wonderland, Peter Pan,The Hobbit,Lord Of The Rings,Sherlock Holmes,Brave New World,Narnia,Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe,Golden Compass,Harry Potter and more. Many of these have since been made into films Since the days of Charlie Chaplin,Stan Laurel,Boris Karloff,Cary Grant and Hitchcock to Michael Caine,Sean Connery,Antony Hopkins to more recently Daniel Day Lewis,and Jude Law British actors and directors have played a pivotal role in both Hollywood and the UK film industry and 7 of the 10 most popular worldwide films of the past 5 years were based on British books including 'Narnia', 'Harry Potter','Charlie & The Chocolate Factory','Lord Of The Rings' and James Bond. And this is not even half of what Britain has done for the world and yet Americans like to take all the credit and make out like they invented the modern world! Nazi Germany wanted rid of anyone who was gay, jewish, dark haired and dark eyed. The British gave the world the above so I rest my case. I may not have personally had anything to do with this however I am proud of my nation knowing that almost evrerything the world does was probably British. I take it your German seeing as you agree with Nazi's???? lol The Big Dipper...Thanks for your opinion even if it s a foreign one. Freedom of speech yet another British tradition is a wonderful thing lol Ever heard of Aston Martins, Rolls-Royce, Bentley etc etc You must drive a peasant wagon in your country with chickens rinnung up and down lol sorry poor boy. Why is it when I try and make a comment on why I should be proud to be British I get comments like this and defensive ones at that. I asked British people not foreigners Ray whatever your name is my advise is to go back to school because my nation has been around much longer try thousands of years longer than yours and again I want Brits to answer this. Why on earth are there foreigners answering a Brit question???? Can't get enough of us lol. Fuck off and go eat your fast food a2x4dc the UK and US are not siblings whatsoever. We separated years ago and so we have nothing in common. We are both foreign to each other
Politics - 7 Answers
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The British Empire was considerably more evil than Nazi Germany Besides that, you had absolutely nothing to do with any of these achievements and should not feel any bit more proud of them than the achievements of any other random corner of earth.
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Why cant they make a decent car then?
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I we only address the language part of your post the rest is too long The language is ours [American] by right of conquest it is we who are allowing you to use it However if y'all keep feminising with words like ''whilst'' that right well soon be revoked The language was meant to be spoken from y'all gut not out of your nose Gives it a manly tone
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It is a cool country for sure. Very cool people.
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The British have contributed much to the World. Churchill acknowledged the Brits & the U.S. are like brothers & there also is a bit of sibling rivalry.
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proud of their failed attempts at imperialism? proud that the US has had to bail them out of the last 2 world wars? proud of the fact that they have turned into a breeding ground for islamic extremists? proud of their putrid dinner menus? proud of their inbred royalty?
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My favourite country!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
I need help, Is this a scam job
I need help, Is this a scam job?
I inquired about a job on craigslist and this is the email I received. My email marked it as spam and I am just curious if others think it is a scam. I don't want to get involved with anything that is risky! Attn: Hope you're having a pleasant day today, I am in search of dependable individual with a high pedigree to help me handle my Business errands. Do take time to go through this introductory mail and feel free to pass any questions on.PETER KING is My name. I have been a photographer for over 30 years and also has been teaching photography for 20 years. I bring a unique teaching style to students which will guarantee creative and fun learning by all student photographers while elevating them to new, exciting photographic heights that they have only dreamed of.I often conduct LIVE slide/talk lectures on Understanding Exposure, the Art of Seeing, Macro Photography and Photographing People throughout the USA,CANADA, Great Britain and Asia.At the moment, I am in a work-ship in the Great Britain.I will be here for a month after which I will fly down to TURKEY for a Live-slide/talk show lectures with some students. YOUR DUTIES AS MY PERSONAL ASSISTANT. While I am out of the states,I need some one who can stand in the gap for me.His/her duties will be: -To receive letters and mails on my behalf. -Receive Payments from clients who want to attend the forth coming workshops or Live shows. -Schedule appointments for me. -Book my flight tickets. Send letters and mails from my clients. This position is home-based and flexible part time job,you can be in any location you will be working from your home doing all the activities.All you need do is to check your emails twice daily and keep your phone on most times in case I might need to call you from anywhere I may be.I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available to start.This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship.Let me know if you have any of the office equipment (If not),I will make arrangements to send them to your address Printer: Personal Laptop/Desktop: Internet Access: Scanner: Fax machine: Laminator: Paper Cutter: For proper review(since i am not available now to set up a face-to-face interview) supply out correctly the information below . FULL NAME : Full Street Address(Not PO Box) : City, State, Zip Code: Age: Present Occupation: Cell Phone Number: Home Phone Number: Email: Scanned copy of your IDYou can provide that later when you are employed) Note: It will be of added advantage if you can provide 2 references from your past employments. QUALIFICATION: -Educational background is not a criteria. -You must be Organized and able to take instructions well Dependable, Reliable, Trustworthy a must -Must have excellent English language skills (both spoken and written) -Have great work ethic and attitude, as well as people skills, pay-attention to detail, capable of multi- tasking, and works well understress at times. Benefits: - Yearly performance bonus - Paid vacation/sick/personal days - Medical benefits Salary: $400 weekly($1,600 monthly) Also,there will be compensation for efficiency and hard working. PETER KING Photography PETER KING
Other - Internet - 8 Answers
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I would arrange a phone call before I gave him any of that information..
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They ask for a lot of personal information, sounds weird ...
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Yes this is most likely a scam, but you can always send an e-mail asking for a phone call or further feedback regarding the position. Do not give any information until you are certain this is not a scam! Easy ways to tell that this is a spam is that almost all proper nouns (names) are in all capital letters while the rest is properly written. This indicates that it is a "Fill in your specific information" letter and written by a bot or by someone who is being paid peanuts to send out as many of these forms as possible.
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Yep. This is almost certainly a scapegoat scam. Check out what he's wanting you to do: "set up appointments", "take payments", "book flight tickets", "receive letters". All of these are all suspect to a fraudulent scheme to set you up, but specifically, no self respecting employer, freelancing or otherwise, would have you taking a clients payments. Think for a moment - why do you suppose he would want your name on all the transactions that occurred? If this guy is world famous, how come you've never heard his name? And what on earth is he doing on craigslist? More likely than not, he's running an illegal operation, possibly weapons, drug or human trafficking. And guess who gets arrested if his crimes surface with the FBI? You. I'm warning you, this is a trap, don't fall for it!
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As someone else said, I'd call before giving any information. However, I do get the sense that this is a scam. He says that you will accept payments for him....in reality would you hire someone who you didn't even interview in person to accept your money, when you could have someone you know do that, or better yet have it set to go into an international account?! He will likely send you bad check(s) and have you cash them then send the money to him and perhaps even keep some yourself for payment. In the end you will be paying big time when the check bounces!
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100% scam. There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send 90-95% of the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" 5%-10%. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal. Or the next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will demand you accept packages purchased with stolen credit cards at YOUR home address. Then you are suppose to use a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number to send the electronics, clothing and jewelry overseas. When the websites, credit card owners and UPS/FedEx discover the fraud, you get the real life job of paying back all of them. Then the local law enforcement comes knocking asking why are you fencing stolen merchandise for someone you never met, don't know their real life name and have no idea even what country they really live in. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. 6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs: 1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one. 2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order. 3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity. 4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone. 5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram. 6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site. Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason. If you google "fake UK job", "fraud personal assistant Western Union scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
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DO NOT reply for any reason. There is no real job - this is a criminal trying to get you involved in money laundering Here is the REAL Peter King photography - if you contact him by email he will confirm he has NOTHING to do with this scam http://peterkingphotography.com/ He is a British photographer. There is NO way he can employ or pay anyone in the US if he is not a - a registered business in the US b - has a US tax ID number c - has a merchant banking account to handle ALL financial transactions
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Wow, I just got one of these in my email inbox as well. I always google the site, business, person, etc before I continue, so when I saw your question pop up on google, I knew it couldn't be a good sign. "He" sent me the same email, same words, same instructions. It is a scam most likely....how sad, huh? I hate the people who think it's fun to prey on us who are looking for jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't get back asap if I were you. The thing that tipped me off was the fact that he has no concept of how to type (unnecessary spaces between words and letters or no spaces at all), and how grammar works. A computer doesn't know these things, so it isn't a real man typing this. Keep looking, don't give up! =)
I inquired about a job on craigslist and this is the email I received. My email marked it as spam and I am just curious if others think it is a scam. I don't want to get involved with anything that is risky! Attn: Hope you're having a pleasant day today, I am in search of dependable individual with a high pedigree to help me handle my Business errands. Do take time to go through this introductory mail and feel free to pass any questions on.PETER KING is My name. I have been a photographer for over 30 years and also has been teaching photography for 20 years. I bring a unique teaching style to students which will guarantee creative and fun learning by all student photographers while elevating them to new, exciting photographic heights that they have only dreamed of.I often conduct LIVE slide/talk lectures on Understanding Exposure, the Art of Seeing, Macro Photography and Photographing People throughout the USA,CANADA, Great Britain and Asia.At the moment, I am in a work-ship in the Great Britain.I will be here for a month after which I will fly down to TURKEY for a Live-slide/talk show lectures with some students. YOUR DUTIES AS MY PERSONAL ASSISTANT. While I am out of the states,I need some one who can stand in the gap for me.His/her duties will be: -To receive letters and mails on my behalf. -Receive Payments from clients who want to attend the forth coming workshops or Live shows. -Schedule appointments for me. -Book my flight tickets. Send letters and mails from my clients. This position is home-based and flexible part time job,you can be in any location you will be working from your home doing all the activities.All you need do is to check your emails twice daily and keep your phone on most times in case I might need to call you from anywhere I may be.I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available to start.This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship.Let me know if you have any of the office equipment (If not),I will make arrangements to send them to your address Printer: Personal Laptop/Desktop: Internet Access: Scanner: Fax machine: Laminator: Paper Cutter: For proper review(since i am not available now to set up a face-to-face interview) supply out correctly the information below . FULL NAME : Full Street Address(Not PO Box) : City, State, Zip Code: Age: Present Occupation: Cell Phone Number: Home Phone Number: Email: Scanned copy of your IDYou can provide that later when you are employed) Note: It will be of added advantage if you can provide 2 references from your past employments. QUALIFICATION: -Educational background is not a criteria. -You must be Organized and able to take instructions well Dependable, Reliable, Trustworthy a must -Must have excellent English language skills (both spoken and written) -Have great work ethic and attitude, as well as people skills, pay-attention to detail, capable of multi- tasking, and works well understress at times. Benefits: - Yearly performance bonus - Paid vacation/sick/personal days - Medical benefits Salary: $400 weekly($1,600 monthly) Also,there will be compensation for efficiency and hard working. PETER KING Photography PETER KING
Other - Internet - 8 Answers
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I would arrange a phone call before I gave him any of that information..
2 :
They ask for a lot of personal information, sounds weird ...
3 :
Yes this is most likely a scam, but you can always send an e-mail asking for a phone call or further feedback regarding the position. Do not give any information until you are certain this is not a scam! Easy ways to tell that this is a spam is that almost all proper nouns (names) are in all capital letters while the rest is properly written. This indicates that it is a "Fill in your specific information" letter and written by a bot or by someone who is being paid peanuts to send out as many of these forms as possible.
4 :
Yep. This is almost certainly a scapegoat scam. Check out what he's wanting you to do: "set up appointments", "take payments", "book flight tickets", "receive letters". All of these are all suspect to a fraudulent scheme to set you up, but specifically, no self respecting employer, freelancing or otherwise, would have you taking a clients payments. Think for a moment - why do you suppose he would want your name on all the transactions that occurred? If this guy is world famous, how come you've never heard his name? And what on earth is he doing on craigslist? More likely than not, he's running an illegal operation, possibly weapons, drug or human trafficking. And guess who gets arrested if his crimes surface with the FBI? You. I'm warning you, this is a trap, don't fall for it!
5 :
As someone else said, I'd call before giving any information. However, I do get the sense that this is a scam. He says that you will accept payments for him....in reality would you hire someone who you didn't even interview in person to accept your money, when you could have someone you know do that, or better yet have it set to go into an international account?! He will likely send you bad check(s) and have you cash them then send the money to him and perhaps even keep some yourself for payment. In the end you will be paying big time when the check bounces!
6 :
100% scam. There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send 90-95% of the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" 5%-10%. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal. Or the next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will demand you accept packages purchased with stolen credit cards at YOUR home address. Then you are suppose to use a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number to send the electronics, clothing and jewelry overseas. When the websites, credit card owners and UPS/FedEx discover the fraud, you get the real life job of paying back all of them. Then the local law enforcement comes knocking asking why are you fencing stolen merchandise for someone you never met, don't know their real life name and have no idea even what country they really live in. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. 6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs: 1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one. 2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order. 3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity. 4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone. 5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram. 6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site. Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason. If you google "fake UK job", "fraud personal assistant Western Union scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
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DO NOT reply for any reason. There is no real job - this is a criminal trying to get you involved in money laundering Here is the REAL Peter King photography - if you contact him by email he will confirm he has NOTHING to do with this scam http://peterkingphotography.com/ He is a British photographer. There is NO way he can employ or pay anyone in the US if he is not a - a registered business in the US b - has a US tax ID number c - has a merchant banking account to handle ALL financial transactions
8 :
Wow, I just got one of these in my email inbox as well. I always google the site, business, person, etc before I continue, so when I saw your question pop up on google, I knew it couldn't be a good sign. "He" sent me the same email, same words, same instructions. It is a scam most likely....how sad, huh? I hate the people who think it's fun to prey on us who are looking for jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't get back asap if I were you. The thing that tipped me off was the fact that he has no concept of how to type (unnecessary spaces between words and letters or no spaces at all), and how grammar works. A computer doesn't know these things, so it isn't a real man typing this. Keep looking, don't give up! =)
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Will all councillors in Great Britain take the lead, and accept a drop in salary, the same as council workers
Will all councillors in Great Britain take the lead, and accept a drop in salary, the same as council workers?
New working contract for workers, New contract for Councillors. Do more and earn less, Great Savings. In response ONLY ASKING lol.
Other - Politics & Government - 2 Answers
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do not be stupid
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Maybe councillors should be on performance-related-pay - in which case they'd be damned skint
New working contract for workers, New contract for Councillors. Do more and earn less, Great Savings. In response ONLY ASKING lol.
Other - Politics & Government - 2 Answers
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do not be stupid
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Maybe councillors should be on performance-related-pay - in which case they'd be damned skint
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Why doesnt Britain become predominantly Catholic
Why doesnt Britain become predominantly Catholic?
Isnt it a strong firm faith based on Judaism which also honours women in Mary and includes The Matriarch in all of its doctrine. They follow The Holy Bible run good schools and do an enormous amount of great work for poor sick etc worldwide. If Britain are so against Islam taking hold why dont they now grasp the biggest and strongest Christian faith and live by it. Theyre always saying how Muslims oppress their women well clearly Catholics dont and actually have a woman alongside all of their taught scriptures. It may need as an organisation some shortcomings ironing out but isnt Catholicism the best way for broken bitter hate filled anti Islamic Britain now. And you have a Papal visit coming up too a golden chance to all convert and show Islam you have a good strong church faith instead of portraying what is a drunken immoral mess of a society? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE Re posted question i.e. better link ? And a very *VERY* good argument.
Current Events - 5 Answers
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Is it Groundhog Day or something? I could have sworn this was asked earlier before it was dele... Ah!
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Better yet, why can't the world of religion actually practice what was supposedly preached about love, respect, and peace, helping the weak, providing for each other, not murdering, raping, slaughtering and commiting any manner of violent/oppressive acts all round. 'Cos that's what people keep saying THEIR god preaches? Or could it be, per chance, that too many are actually revelling and glorifying and justifying their love of such atrocious behaviour and dressing it up with religious excuses? Just a thought.
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The Anglican Church, from what I understand is closer to the Roman Catholic Church than any other church. I believe they honor saints, and Mary and all. But I would think in Britain, unless they had a large influx of Irish Catholics or something (and there are a lot of Irish surnames in England, it seems to me) the Catholic Church would never regain it's pre-Henry VIII Catholicism. I mean, Bloody Mary certainly didn't do anything to win fans of the Catholic Church in Britain, even though she lived around 500 years ago or so.
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It was tried and failed. They had their chance hundreds of years ago and let it slip. Why change now?
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All this bluster about the western world being an immoral mess may sound convincing, but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. In the Islamic world, people are far more likely to be starved, raped, beaten, enslaved, drugged...you name it. Our lives in the western world are far better: more free and more wealthy yes, but also kinder, gentler, more civilized in short, much more safe and less chaotic. Longer too! I don't know whether Christianity, rationalism, materialism, enlightenment, democracy, politics, culture or demographics is to credit for that...probably a mix of them all. Complex history certainly. But nothing suggests that either Islam or Catholicism offer any secrets to a better life that we should embrace at this moment. On the contrary, people who encourage religion are likely to be desperate and cynical power-mongers who have been left behind by progress and are lashing out. Tough.
Isnt it a strong firm faith based on Judaism which also honours women in Mary and includes The Matriarch in all of its doctrine. They follow The Holy Bible run good schools and do an enormous amount of great work for poor sick etc worldwide. If Britain are so against Islam taking hold why dont they now grasp the biggest and strongest Christian faith and live by it. Theyre always saying how Muslims oppress their women well clearly Catholics dont and actually have a woman alongside all of their taught scriptures. It may need as an organisation some shortcomings ironing out but isnt Catholicism the best way for broken bitter hate filled anti Islamic Britain now. And you have a Papal visit coming up too a golden chance to all convert and show Islam you have a good strong church faith instead of portraying what is a drunken immoral mess of a society? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE Re posted question i.e. better link ? And a very *VERY* good argument.
Current Events - 5 Answers
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Is it Groundhog Day or something? I could have sworn this was asked earlier before it was dele... Ah!
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Better yet, why can't the world of religion actually practice what was supposedly preached about love, respect, and peace, helping the weak, providing for each other, not murdering, raping, slaughtering and commiting any manner of violent/oppressive acts all round. 'Cos that's what people keep saying THEIR god preaches? Or could it be, per chance, that too many are actually revelling and glorifying and justifying their love of such atrocious behaviour and dressing it up with religious excuses? Just a thought.
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The Anglican Church, from what I understand is closer to the Roman Catholic Church than any other church. I believe they honor saints, and Mary and all. But I would think in Britain, unless they had a large influx of Irish Catholics or something (and there are a lot of Irish surnames in England, it seems to me) the Catholic Church would never regain it's pre-Henry VIII Catholicism. I mean, Bloody Mary certainly didn't do anything to win fans of the Catholic Church in Britain, even though she lived around 500 years ago or so.
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It was tried and failed. They had their chance hundreds of years ago and let it slip. Why change now?
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All this bluster about the western world being an immoral mess may sound convincing, but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. In the Islamic world, people are far more likely to be starved, raped, beaten, enslaved, drugged...you name it. Our lives in the western world are far better: more free and more wealthy yes, but also kinder, gentler, more civilized in short, much more safe and less chaotic. Longer too! I don't know whether Christianity, rationalism, materialism, enlightenment, democracy, politics, culture or demographics is to credit for that...probably a mix of them all. Complex history certainly. But nothing suggests that either Islam or Catholicism offer any secrets to a better life that we should embrace at this moment. On the contrary, people who encourage religion are likely to be desperate and cynical power-mongers who have been left behind by progress and are lashing out. Tough.
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