Religion

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Baptist's can vary quite a bit, but other than that it makes sense.
Also Low Church Anglicans usually vote Labour.


Over 90% of the U.K belong to a religion.

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Actually the reason why it wasn't included is because it was proposed by Catholic countries and opposed by Protestant countries...
We don't need another Thirty Years War...

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Basically a mention of God in the constitution was seen by the Protestant countries as an attempt by the Vatican to institutionalise itself as part of the E.U

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So what if Dean plays to the crowd?
He's always done that sort of thing, as has every other senior political figure world over(including, indeed especially, Bush)

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Migrendel: do you mean Calvinist or Neo-Calvinist?
Congregationalism is Calvinist(as is Methodism, Anglicanism, Presbytarianism etc), but Neo-Calvinist is something very different(ie: a cover for conservative fundamentalism)

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And as I said your choice.  But what happens someday if we ( believers) are right and you are wrong and are thrown into hell for not believing?

That's not a very Christian attitude is it?

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Most of the Reformed churches over here are composed of Socialists with fairly liberal views on homosexuality(this includes the Low Church wing of the CofE), and some of the Anglo-Catholics are similer on that issue...
The Roman Catholic Church is as homophobic over here as in the Vatican... and the evangelical-conservative wing of the CofE is as well.

Gene Robinson is from the Episcople (ie: Anglican) Church so the spilt in the Anglican Church(es) is probably mirrored in New Hampshire(except I don't think you get the Low Church/Calvinist wing in the U.S)

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To Realpolitik:
I'm sorry for being vague. I meant Calvinism in the modern evangelical sense, rather than the reformationist Calvinist doctrine.

I see now!
Neo-Calvinist not Calvinist!
Thanks for clearing that up.

I doubt that Calvin would have had much to do with the Neo-Calvinists had they existed in the C16th... come to think of it he would probably have had them burned...

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Actually Bin Laden has a string of mistressess and likes prositutes.

Back to Relgion...
Opinions on the Marprelate Tracts?

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The Marprelate Tracts were a series of C15th Puritan pamphlets denouncing bishops etc

Do you think that Bin Laden worked at Enron?

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Agnostic comes from the Greek word for knowledge.
Gnostic means "one with knowledge"(and was the name of an early loony cult)

"A" means without or signifies an opposite.

So A-Gnostic means "one without knowledge", ie; someone who is not sure.

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....and it looks like you and I are on in agreement for once!!!

I think I need a strong drink...