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London to have 100m SUPER Mosque?
bigant:
am still pagan much easyer ^^
Sider:
As a tax-paying (god that hurts) foreign citizen, my 2 pennies, for anyone who cares to read (not in any particular order, just writing as the dribble comes out of my mind):
1.- Britain is mainly Anglican (for now, at least), but not really protestant (if you were to compare rituals and so on, Anglicans and Catholics are the closest, and if you press me, I would say that Anglicanism shares more with Judaism than with Luteranism. Having said that, how many churches exist that are not CoE? Baptists, Methodists, Evangelists, and the lot. So why would it be worse to have a muslin than a Jehova's witness as your neighbour?
2.- If you read carefully the articles, it is stated that the Government (and believe you me, I have little to no simpathy for Blair, Brown and their cohorts) will most likely oppose the application.
3.- As long as it is not publicly funded (i.e. they do not use our taxes to build it) I have no objections in principle to any church, sinagogue or mosque (or temple of any kind) being built. On the other hand, I am very wary of religious extremism of any kind (one of my nemesis are the Opus Dei).
Let's not forget that most religions, at one point or another expanded by using the sword. Does the Inquisition ring a bell with someone? Or the orders sent to Wellington telling him to cull Methodism from the Army? We grew out of it, but some cultures need much longer to accept change. It is not necesarily a religious thing, more of a cultural one.
Then again, I'm just another Johnny Foreigner, and therefore, wrong, or at least unworthy of voicing my opinion.
MudRat:
I agree with Sider, let them worship anyway they want, i doubt the pagans weren't too happy when the first churches started going up!
Lets be tolerant as we are the first to moan when people make Vast Sweeping Statements about 4x4 users!
Beware of Prejudice????
Skibum346:
Congrats to both the above posters for bringing a little sense to a rant...
Lemme see... we opose the percieved preaching of intolerance by.... not being tolerant of it.... Hmmmm... anyone notice a wee double standard in that?
As an Ex Catholic, Ex Protestant confirmed atheist... or is it agnostic... I hate the way religion is used on all sides as a stick to beat each other up with.
I wish you would all take a leaf from the book of a school I saw on BBC Midlands news tonight... a Jewish school where most of the kids are Moslem... Good "Enter deity of choice here"... if they can do it?!!!
:(bigangry):
datalas:
There is no such thing as tolerance ...
In order to tolerate something you must accept that there is a fundamental difference which must be somehow accepted or ignored ...
My opinion, we need to reach a state of religious indifference, apathy, it solves most things :)
However, on a serious note, whilst I can appreciate that another proposed tax hike in order to fund something which not many people would gain much benefit from would be jolly annoying, I feel the same way about the national stadium and that thought didn't seem to carry much weight :)
Don't let this argument get out of hand please chaps ...
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