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The UK is still perceived to be a Christian country, the default setting should be that we openly celebrate Christian festivals.
Maybe we're not?
Is Jesus that old man with the white beard and red coat? He seems to get everywhere at Xmas, it's PC gone mad.
Is Scotland not one nation many cultures? Not too sure what you mean with the last bit - do you think multiculturalism and diversity are a bad thing?
Hopefully not I think Scotland would benefit from more Scots born living outside of our country for a while, seeing how others live and how they see us.
Too much ignorance and you get the consequences of George W Bush actions...
What do you mean 'the way this country's going'?
You're also saying that kids aren't taught about christmas?? I honestly can't believe how little you rely on facts when you post. It's like you've cut a branch off a tree, and want to make a spear of nonsense. In order to do this you set about whittling off all the shoots of fact that were emerging from your spear of nonsense to make it more aerodynamic for when you throw it into the torso of secularism.
"I think", "I bet"...
Does anyone know anyone from the communities mentioned (e.g. Muslim, Sikh, Hindu or Jewish community)? Even so unlikely to be representative but closer perhaps than other speculation?
Perth needs a prison to hold all those Dundee folk nicking stuff from their neighbours.
SJFC - 1884 / 1885 (bit of a dispute re that, officially formed in 1884 but didn't start playing for a while, a bit like the Yams or Celtc)
DFC - 1893
DUFC - 1909 / 1923 (depending on whether you count Dundee Hibs)
I think a lot of the extremities of political correctness come about because people take it on themselves to decide what will offend other people. On top of that we have a group of people whose careers depend on evening out inequalities.
They have to constantly find new things to correct or they are out of a job. I can see comparisons to health promotion - where do all the anti-smoking commisars go now that they have got their way? They move onto alcohol and obesity.
All of these things start with the best of intentions. Unfortunately you then bring in people who, although they know the rules, don't know what they are trying to achieve.
On the other side of the fence you have those who never wanted the rules in the first place, because the world was a great place to be (for them) and why change anything. Add into the mix people who just hate any form of change.
I think that all this defending "our christian values" is just so much nonsense. Ever since I was little, people have been saying "put christ back into christmas". Maybe a regression to a pre-christian definition of the winter solstice is more honest.
From what I can see, most people's christianity is attending church for six weeks prior to their wedding, and the occasional drunken foray to a watchnight service. To me, christmas seems to be a celebration of things christ stood against - greed, selfishness, retreating into the comfort of your own family with no regard for anyone else.
If christianity has lost it's audience in this country, why not remove it from the schedules? At least other religions have retained spirituality in their portfolio. If the best Jesus can hope for is Christmas, the game is lost. (How many of the cards you'll send or recieve this year have any sort of biblical or spiritual theme to them?)
Sorry to bring religion into it by the way.
Aplogies - :hijack:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_discov...icity_and_when
:greengrin or as TQM would do.... :cool2:Quote:
Mentions of electricity have been found in writings as early as 600BC by the Greek Thales of Miletus.
Getting back on topic - I see the lights areon. Assume it's for testing then?
Wid they eat fehv pehs in Pairth or are they too posh?
(Non Tayside contribution to thread).
If you're asking me if I think that people of different cultures living in Scotland/UK is a bad thing then the answer to that is no. Although I do think that the situation in some places in England has gone too far.
However, I don't agree with the way that issues such as multiculturalism are handled in this country. I think it is leading to scenarios like the one in that newspaper link in the opening post, whereby anything related to Christianity is being treated like some sort of taboo subject, whereas anything to do with other religions, especially Islam, are given the utmost respect and are openly embraced.
You are putting words in my mouth. I did not say that kids aren't taught about Christmas, I said that they are taught about, and encouraged to embrace, festivals such as Eid, Ramadan and Diwali but when it comes to Christmas, or Christianity in general, people don't seem to be quite as quick to embrace it publicly because people on councils, usually atheists, believe that it will somehow offend people of minority faiths.
You only have to look at the recent case of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals being encouraged to deface a copy of the Bible by writing vulgar messages inside it, all of which was publicly funded and partly organised by Glasgow City Council.
There is a not a chance that something like that would have happened with the sacred text of a minority religion. The organisers would have probably been murdered if those messages had been written inside a copy of the Qur'an.
All of that was done in the name of "diversity" as well, by the way. Anyone else see a trend developing here?
I'm sorry, I didn't realise that there was a time limit for responding to posts.
Please accept my apologies, it won't happen again.
I'm not sure what world you live in.
http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/...mber-this.html
Utter nonsense, both in your interpretation of the newspaper article and your wild belief that islam is embraced.
Have you any idea how moronically stupid that sentence is? Could you show me where you get your evidence (not anecdotes) that this army of cooncilmen atheists are plotting to avoid offending religions other than Christianity?
Untitled 2009 was proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, a group which is an “inclusive Christian ministry to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities.” Their intention of the work was for “gallery visitors [to] suggest ways in which the Bible could be ‘reclaimed as a sacred text.
Link.
Presumably the wrong type of christian in your eyes?
Erm, no, it wasnt. You are mixing up so many moral outrages here it beggars belief.
I hadnt heard (or forgotten about) this. So I looked it up.
Actually, it has nothing to do with imposing Tibetan prayer flags or culture on Calton Hill. It was one architect's rather banal and twee idea for finishing the Disgrace.
You last paragraph is pointless. You're trying to make a point about the blanket acceptance of "foreign culture" using something that didnt happen as an example!