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Thankfully I can do my spiritual thanksgiving by travelling to see and honour my family - it's convenient I know, but gathering together and celebrating a holiday together as we have since our family began all those generations ago is one big animist ritual, even though my parents don't realise...

Well that's an old argument isn't it? Churches are generally regarded as being religious institutions - but the Catholic church is the richest organisation in existence and the Church of England owns more land than Her Majesty. As Christmas was, at best, a veneer of Christianity laid over the...

This is a simple decision of economics, isn't it? Few volunteers will be available on Christmas morning. Few worshippers will make the trip. Christmas is a family holiday - and if they open the churches then the churches will be empty. There's no point speaking if nobody is listening!

Don't forget the new rules when discussing this topic - it's an interesting one and I'd like to see it not getting locked down.

Because you believe in the man and you get the presents. While you're not telling them any lies about Christmas, can you tell them that the holiday was stolen from Pagan's and that 9 out of 10 of the "Traditional" things to do with it come from the Yule celebration. Not lying is different to...

Yes - which requires isolation and categorisation.

Word, Papatoad. Your freedom to swing your fist ends at my face.

A psycho christian would be my bet. Hello... Cleanup on Aisle 5...

Science IS the process of breaking things down into little, categorisable, pieces and accurately labelling them. That's what he's doing here - what's the problem? Intelligent Design as a theory is about as intellectually honest as L. Ron Hubbard's stuff about space aliens wanting your money.

Just take a moment to remember why we're REALLY here and thank the God who sacrifices his body for us. And remember - the darkness never gets longer than it is at Yule. That's the turning point, and the shortening nights are the Goddess's promise to us of new life in the Spring. By the way...

Or those of us who hit a crisis of faith, prayed and went unanswered.

Abaddon as in he who is the Angel of the Pit. The Destroyer. The ruler of the horde of scorpion demony thingies With the stinging and the hurting.

I do mind. There are a lot of types of laughter... I can warm your heart or cut you dead with a laugh. When you just type HaaaahHAHAHAahahahaha like that what most people here is mocking laughter.

Wow... I'm a fan!

Jesh, if you don't stop that I'm going to get Testy. Are you trying to pump your post count up? Here's another thing that JC could be.... 5. More than one man. 6. Very fortunate in his biographers.

There are a LOT of ex-servicemen - probably with a five block radius of you - who are homeless, jobless and penniless thanks to their inability to cope with returning to civilian life after mustering out. You don't need to fly to the third world to find poverty - it's not that far from you...

No, no - it really ISN'T saying that at all. It is saying to fear him who can destroy your body and soul in hell. I thought that by definition, God wasn't IN hell (it does say that hell is eternal seperation from your creator) so how can he be destroying your body and soul? And if Satan has...

Yeah - seriously you guys...

Actually this could well be the single biggest atrocity committed in the world, and the father of most of the pain and suffering in three continents. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1028.html This treaty, the treaty of Tordesillas divided the non-Christian world between Spanish and...