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To: NZerFromHK

I wouldn't worry about it.
The UK gave up religion a long time ago. They all get in the way of free speech and proper democracy. Far better to be a totally secular, politically advanced country. Religions just get in the way of the running of day to day life. And anyway, they are just another form of control orchestrated by wealthy to the poor. People will get it, but not for another 500 years or so. So does that the UK is that far ahead of the times?? Hmmm, we're doing ok then.


24 posted on 05/02/2006 6:38:48 PM PDT by Lost Humanist
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To: Lost Humanist

Great! We now know another destination for missionaries from Hong Kong to preach the gospel. Many already are spreading the gospel among Hong Kong Chinese students studying in Britain and the Chinese living in Britain's large cities' Chinatowns. Now we know we should broaden the focus to everyone as well. Anything less will not do in a land that used to produce 3/4 of all missionaries in the 19th centuries, and which produced dedicated servants of the Lord such as Hudson Taylor or C.H. Spurgeon.


28 posted on 05/02/2006 6:54:40 PM PDT by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: Lost Humanist
I wouldn't worry about it. The UK gave up religion a long time ago. They all get in the way of free speech and proper democracy. Far better to be a totally secular, politically advanced country. Religions just get in the way of the running of day to day life.

You are mentally ill.

36 posted on 05/02/2006 7:30:21 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
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To: Lost Humanist
You've missed the entire point of Steyn's article.

There is no such thing as "total secularism" or a completely blank, contentless culture.

People cannot collaborate on a large scale without a shared consensus on values.

Secularism is a philosophical vacuum and it will eventually be filled up with something - Islam, Christianity, radical socialism, Odinism, or what have you.

And your entire notion of "proper democracy" is ultimately religious in origin.

64 posted on 05/03/2006 8:07:25 AM PDT by wideawake
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