What Do You Think?

[iloveher]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/suncolumnists/6790197/Toby-Young-says-if-you-dont-like-Britain-being-Christian-then-leave.html

[Peter Pedant]

jesus jim there are under 50 prelates in the House of Lords amongst a thousane of the little blighters

in principle - I think we should be a secular society
I mean the ROI is - isnt it ? ( constitution of 1922 which I agree has been replaced a few times )

[jno]

/////As Christian poet GK Chesterton said, when people cease to believe in the God of the New Testament, they don’t believe in nothing. They believe in everything.//

That is often quoted, but I have no idea why. It’s the daftest thing I’ve ever read.//

(a) it's a misquote - it should really be "they believe in anything" - ie any old rubbish. The suggestion was that without established religion people go in for real niche stuff.

(b) but there's no evidence he ever said it anyway.

[naomi24]

It's rubbish whichever way you look at it then.

[Togo]

//The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. //

//Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.//

If he did not make the previous quote I'll have it then. He may not have made these two either.