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Originally Posted by Ed
I guess you're thinking GW in particular and the USA in general... but please remember that they have a very different culture, the Pilgrim Fathers left England to escape religious persecution. As indeed did many more who followed them.
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Originally Posted by Ed
I'm a member of the Church of England.
TBH I find this thread faintly ridiculous but very irritating. I don't have to justify my beliefs to anyone, and I'm not going to. Someone further up commented on the lack of religious bigots on here. We have more than enough atheist bigots to make up for that. Look at how Vixis has been treated on here - comprehensively rubbished. If you don't believe, fine - I respect your views, you don't have to justify them to me. But the way some on here have gone about it suggests to me that the people concerned are actually perhaps not that certain after all.
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You don't need to justify them to anyone Ed. But you must acknowledge how ridiculous it all looks. If you were born in Iraq; would you be a member of the church of England?