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Thread #118245   Message #2556113
Posted By: wyrdolafr
03-Feb-09 - 09:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Nurse Suspended for praying ????
Subject: RE: BS: Nurse Suspended for praying ????
Goatfell wrote: "but that is these people that believe in Politcal Correctness, don't upset the other faith except Christians I rember when Britian was a christian country not anymore"

I'd say that it was still culturally Christian, but the amount of bums on seats every Sunday tell another story. Is it a country of practising Christians? I'd hedge a bet that it's not. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, just pointing to the reality of the situation.

All religious discrimination is wrong and I do think that Christians are often targeted in one sense (Dawkins et al), but I don't think it's similar to some of the stick that a lot of Muslims and Hindus get - for example - for their beliefs. For every incident of Muslims getting some kind of 'privilige' over Christians, I bet there's more than a dozen cases of them getting flak for their beliefs outside the walls of politically correct offices &c. I wouldn't like to be a Muslim in this country any time that there's an incident of 'Islamic terrorism' somewhere in the world.

Also, the idea of 'Britain being a Christian country' underlines the idea that Christianity is kind of the default belief. No matter how much Christians think they're maligned, at least their beliefs are accepted as being a 'real' religion - a lot of non-Christian beliefs don't even get that courtesy.


"But this is what is happening to Britian which is a Christian country well suppose to be but we the ones that are born here and are Christain we are not allowed to pray in public but anyone else of any other faith is. that what gets me".

This story is set in an old woman's private home - her house - that's not really about Christians not being allowed to pray in public. Also, I don't think I've ever seen anyone of a non-Christian faith praying in public. Where does this happen exactly?