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Why?

It's a theocracy

Why cant it be more like France,Germany,Iceland,Switzerland,Austria,Finland,Poland, ect.

Christianity over there is like Islam in Saudi Arabia and Judaism in Isreal.

I have a theory when your an Island country your more likely to stagnate(I will happen to Australia eventually)
I mean the royal family over there is a slightly less extreme version of the Ayatollah I mean just look the Boxer rebellion in China The Chinese people were fed up with Christianity plauging their country the last thing they need is Homophopia,sexism and pedophilla

What Napoleon should of done is focus on inding Britain then salt the country then leave forever removing the European aristocracy which was thew French Revolution was about Britain supported the corrupt and aristocratic House of Bourbon
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In addition to the soldiery, the British squadron and their boats took on board thousands of French Royalist refugees, who had flocked to the waterfront when it became clear that the city would fall to the Republicans. Robust, the last to leave, carried more than 3,000 civilians from the harbour and another 4,000 were recorded on board Princess Royal out in the roads. In total the British fleet rescued 14,877 Toulonnais from the city; witnesses on board the retreating ships reported scenes of panic on the waterfront as stampeding civilians were crushed or drowned in their haste to escape the advancing Republican soldiers, who fired indiscriminately into the fleeing populace

I wish my Brotherhood of Logic was a superpower

Because that's a place where Christianity was forced. So it looks like it's there to stay for a while, sadly.

Dude, how do you open all of these threads about this stuff?
I'm dumb as duck at my school!Are you psychologist? Or a philosopher?
I personally am a future philosopher, but only as a hobby.

I don't know if it is particularly religious, of all the people I hang out with, I'd say only two or three of them are actually believers. It's always seemed to me like America was one of the more religious places.

Not that it's a bad thing of course, it just depends how everyone chooses to interpret it all.

I don't know if it is particularly religious, of all the people I hang out with, I'd say only two or three of them are actually believers. It's always seemed to me like America was one of the more religious places.
Not that it's a bad thing of course, it just depends how everyone chooses to interpret it all.


The US is pretty religious but as much as the UK
Australia is fairy religious unfortunately with out bible thumping retard Tony Abbott wanting to ban Contraception because only for religious reasons
Also in Australia we have way too many Catholic schools there even one in the Town that Im the closest too it called ST.marys

The US is pretty religious but as much as the UK

What gives you that idea? My impression is the opposite, but I haven't looked into it. Do you have sources?

in Australia we have way too many Catholic schools

If parents want to send their kids to a Catholic school, shouldn't they be allowed to do that?

if parents want to send their kids to a Catholic school, shouldn't they be allowed to do that?

Actually no because ive talk to kids from that school and they were forced too they seemed upset and about it.

What gives you that idea? My impression is the opposite, but I haven't looked into it. Do you have sources?

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UK cant put up fight against the Brotherhood of Logic it will never win I Promise you.

ive talk to kids from that school and they were forced

Children aren't normally in charge of their lives; their parents decide for them. Don't you think the kids would complain when going to a different school?

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But the UK is not officially Christian either; it's just that the royal family is. Neither country has a state religion.

However, I think that in the US, more laws are made "because Jesus" than in the UK. For example, this one. My guess is that it will be declared unconstitutional, but they sure are trying. I don't hear that kind of news from the UK. But as I said, I'm not really looking for it either.

No the UK is a Christian country

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House of Lords look it up

UK is a Christian just Isreal is Jewish country and just like Saudi Arabia is a Islamic country.

I dont like the UK infarct I hate it If I was there I straighten everything up and
Im sick and tired of hearing about cricket
Im sick and tired of hearing bible thumping retards coming at my door step(one came by in 2011)
Im sick and tired of bible thumping people being allowed to be politicians and teachers
Im sick and tired of Tony Abbott
Im sick and tired of Catholic schools being around every single corner
Im sick and tired of Britain saying they beat Napoleon all by themselves that as bad as the US saying they beat Hitler all by themselves
Im sick and tired about Britain saying France is a nation of cowards (Battle of Singapore look it up that far more embarrassing then what France surrendered to)
Im sick and tired about Britain glorifying Churchill and Maggie Thracter
Im sick and tired of people pushing Christmas and Easter on me (Pick something more healthier then chocolate easter egg)
Im sick and tired of Al Murray(I hate him so much he;s a liar and is extremely rude I want him dead)
Im sick and tired of hearing about the Commonwealth games
Im sick and tired of women being oppressed
Im sick and tired of Nazi Germany being called the "Evil Empire" by Britain Seriously what Britain did to the entire world makes even Stalin's USSR look like happy fun time
-Forced Christianity on natives
-White Australia policy
-Punishing natives for speaking their own language
-Forcing Christianity and Opium on China.
-Boer concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war
-Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
-Dresden bombing on civilian targets
-Protestant and catholic violence in Northen Ireland
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I like said dont I belong to any country I feel like belong to my own Brotherhood of Logic that where my loyalty is not Australia which is the UK version 2.0 with both Tony Abbott and David Cameron being Bible thumping lunatics and ontop being hypocrites along with crappy weather which makes even worse then the UK

I admire Iceland they are how you run a country ICELAND NOT UK

You tell 'em, Punisher! I personally never been to Britain though
Have you? Cuz I see you're from Australia, and Australia is pretty far away from Britain. I mean, you may be sick and tired about all of these things, but have you personally experienced some of the things you listed? (Just sayin' BTW, don't mean to be rude, just asking)

Like I dont affiliate my self with Australia hence just recently I have decided to remove the Australian flag aka Britain 2.0

Yes I have experience those things when I was 9 at public school we were taught scripture and they attempted to scare us about hell and Satan and whatnot I was scared for little while it traumatised me when I was young.

Ah that's what they all say. That's a whole other story. That happens in every school. I'm from Romania and that's the exact same thing. We have annoying teachers that always say stuff like "Believe in God" "Atheists are fools" and stuff like that. And to be honest, they make me sick of being a orthodox.(Yep, Romania is an orthodox country)

I'll throw my hat in the ring again and say that catholic schools shouldn't even exist.

I mean, it's good to hear that people stop believing when they go to those hellholes, but it's scary to know there are schools that are exclusively teaching religion. It's bad enough that schools in this country teach you to obey and never question, but mix that with obey and never question god and you have a recipe for absolute disaster. It also really hinders progress in things that truly matter and will actually benefit humanity, such as about 80 thousand things. Even taking a shit in a dumpster.

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Yes I have experience those things when I was 9 at public school we were taught scripture and they attempted to scare us about hell and Satan and whatnot I was scared for little while it traumatised me when I was young.
And it disgusts me when I bring this kind of stuff up in debates and someone says something like "Oh, well, not all christians are like that". But that doesn't remove the fact that the core of that religion is literally 'If you do not believe in god and obey him, you will go to a realm full of fire and misery and suffer for all eternity'. Like, really? That is terrorism right there. And that crap is taught to children of all ages. You've got 3 year old and shit in sunday schools being told this. Are you DUCKING kidding me?

But why it shouldn't it's bad enough to have religious schools and even that's not enough for them they got to try to bring scripture and fear into public schools.

Not just public schools, too. They try to bring their scripture and fear into everything. And it works. Until the fifties or so, I believe, we didn't have God in our Pledge of Allegience. Now we do and it's really not doing us any good trying to stay the hell away from it.

Especially when the 'school' I went to prior to my ascension into the plane of supreme evil, would do this shitty pledge at the beginning of every summer school day. And you know what? We had to. This pledge included god. Talk about forcing religion on people. I'm quite sure you were punished if you didn't do it.

I'm tired of hearing teachers at my school always say:"Don't question it, just believe it" And then starts reading a story from the bible to enlighten us with God's wisdom.
My brother is an atheist and this time, with a purpose, it's because he doesn't believe the stuff in the bible. I mean, I see 13 yr old kids on the internet who are atheists just to look cool. I'm serious.

Religion is a serious thing, and when I say that I mean that at least 50% of the wars and 70% of the terrorrist attacks in this world, ESPECIALLY the incident with Charlie Hebdo would NOT HAVE HAPPENED if religion didn't exist.

^--- Bluedy takes home the gold.

Although, you gotta remember that there are idiots pretending to be grass, dolphins, and other various otherkin because they enjoy the labels, because they're absolutely crazy, or because they want to poke fun at people who are trans (or any combination) which is an actual real thing. Tumblr is a ducked up place.

So it's not really surprising that we have people pretending to be atheists just to try and fit in. Really sad. You shouldn't have to pretend to fit in. Look at me, I'm obviously a raging unlikeable asshole and a trillion people disagree with everything I say, even here. But, you know, might as well just keep going anyways. What is pretending going to accomplish? I mean really?

I gotta go to bed it late ill talk later.

Good night or good day depending what part of the world you are on.

ESTABLISH A GLOBAL TIMEZONE

Oh, wait. That won't do shit except make things more confusing and totally ducked up.

Tumblr is a ducked up place

*COUGH*reddit*COUGH*

So it's not really surprising that we have people pretending to be atheists just to try and fit in. Really sad. You shouldn't have to pretend to fit in. Look at me, I'm obviously a raging unlikeable asshole and a trillion people disagree with everything I say, even here. But, you know, might as well just keep going anyways. What is pretending going to accomplish? I mean really?

Although you gotta admit there are SOME people who act normal, like themselves.

Anyway, just like ThePunisher, I gotta goe. Bye

Yeah, and they should unless they're actually doing a character and not just pretending to be someone else.

Good example of a mixture of both is Mariotehplumber. Was a character the whole time but those videos were goddamn hilarious. I thought he was really like that but he came out and said that it was a character and that he's sorry about what he did. No problems there. Sure, he pretended to be someone else but he made some funny ass entertainment and even apologized.

Hell, I once pretended to be someone else to avoid being labelled as a... *cough* specific sort of fetishist. But anyways, enough about that. Don't even ask me what it is, I won't answer.

But what's the issue in that? What I'm really trying to say is, the kinds of people who pretend to be someone else just because "Well, it's the internet. Duuuurrrr nobody on the internet is who they say they are. Whatever. Haha. Stupid autistics" or whatever are just dinks.

I guarantee that if you saw me in person I would do these same kinds of overly long rants. Also notice how I said "in person" and not "real life" because that term is stupid and there's nothing about this that isn't "real life" unless I'm the kind of dirtduck that pretends to be someone else just because internet, whatever, blah blah blah.

Also, all my alternates were pretty much how I normally act as well, so. Not Voj though, but that was like a million years ago. So was Mooglefoogle. I was a raging dickhole AND a supreme idiot back then.

My thoughts exactly! If you met me in person( and i'm not bragging), I would too have these long discussions. Back when I lived in my hometown I used to( and still do when I visit it) to have long discussions about politicians and stuff with my dad's friend. And i'm almost 14! The kids my age would be bored about this stuff. And i'm here discussing about religion : ))

But I enjoy it!

ok i came late to this thread and i apologize... but did anyone catch this in preds post awhile back?

Im sick and tired of hearing bible thumping retards coming at my door step(one came by in 2011)

Like.... lol....

"I'm so sick and tired of them bible people comn to my door ALL THE TIME! Why one came not FOUR YEARS AGO!!"

xD

I'm so sick and tired of them bible people comn to my door ALL THE TIME! Why one came not FOUR YEARS AGO!

Another one came in late 2012 when I was at my sisters place.

So you get Jehovah's Witnesses too, eh?

So you get Jehovah's Witnesses too, eh?

Actually yes.

Ewww.

You should check out Londons Holy war turf on Vice.

Two bullshit religion's going head to head.

Ten ways Britain has ruined the world
Check out 3:32

What are Jehova's Witnesses though? And why are they gross?

Another Branch of Christianity

Jehovah's Witnesses are a sect of Christianity that keep very close to their own - they're not allowed to have friends outside of witnesses, and the religion generally controls every aspect of its members' lives. They meet many times a week, and have duties each member has to attend to or they'll be marked as inactive witnesses, which I guess would be very shameful in their own social circle. One of those duties is going door-to-door to sell Jehovah ('Jehovah' is a mangled derivative from YHWH, god's name as it appears in the bible. No one really knows how it was pronounced back in the day, but it probably wasn't 'Jehovah').

They've got lots of rules (check 22. and onwards), and they exert social pressure on their members to a disgusting degree. If you ever quit Jehovah's Witnesses or get expelled, other members are required to shun you, which means not having anything to do with you or even greeting you on the street. When it works, you lose all your family and friends overnight. Despite this, Jehovah's Witnesses still have one of the lowest retention rates among all religious organizations.

They're pretty gross.

and the religion generally controls every aspect of its members' lives.

Apparently its not that much different from other sects of Christianity.

Jehovah's Witnesses are a sect of Christianity that keep very close to their own - they're not allowed to have friends outside of witnesses, and the religion generally controls every aspect of its members' lives. They meet many times a week, and have duties each member has to attend to or they'll be marked as inactive witnesses, which I guess would be very shameful in their own social circle. One of those duties is going door-to-door to sell Jehovah ('Jehovah' is a mangled derivative from YHWH, god's name as it appears in the bible. No one really knows how it was pronounced back in the day, but it probably wasn't 'Jehovah').

They've got lots of rules (check 22. and onwards), and they exert social pressure on their members to a disgusting degree. If you ever quit Jehovah's Witnesses or get expelled, other members are required to shun you, which means not having anything to do with you or even greeting you on the street. When it works, you lose all your family and friends overnight. Despite this, Jehovah's Witnesses still have one of the lowest retention rates among all religious organizations.

They're pretty gross.

Holy crap, dude. That's sounds creepy but interesting in the same time!

Hmm, I guess they got the 'weird cult' appeal going for them.

Hmm, I guess they got the 'weird cult' appeal going for them.

LOVE IT(for some reason)

I have more Reasons why I hate the UK

Now I know what your going to say "but.....but your speaking English"

Well I can speak German,Latin and even little bit of French or dozen others thanks to google translator
But English as Skull many years ago put it,English is the language of the internet Thanks to greedy pillaging of Indigenous people by the British Empire

-Over zealous patriotism on Australia day
-Being forced to play cricket at school
-GST (Goods and services tax) Iceland dosent have it
-Ken Ham and his super religious empire
-John Howard and his super racist government
-Pope being alllowed in Australia back in 2008(I highly doubt he would be allowed in the Soviet Union)
-Australian Christian lobby having a place in politics
-Stolen generation
-Protestant and catholic violence(Over the same dam religion)
Queen Victoria being tyrannical monster that she was,
Victoria cross
Victoria falls
Great Victoria desert
Victoria the state in Australia
-Stealing the crown jewels from India and giving to that fat bitch
-Excessive use of pro-war propaganda

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You know what I found a just a little bit annyoing at UK?(nothing personal)

Theyr assent,m8.

What I cant understand you?

What I cant understand you

Their accent, mate.

but your speaking English

No, you're not.

Woah, you can speak 3 other languages? Including an ancient dead one?

LET'S SEE IT. MAKE US HAVE TO TRANSLATE EVERYTHING YOU SAY FOR THE REST OF THIS THREAD'S EXISTENCE OR SOMETHING.

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Look at this video.

I feel for this man He is one of the sensible one.

Well, this guy's already great.

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Look at this video.

I feel for this man He is one of the sensible one.

Very very interestingly interesting! I liked the part about the church not giving a duck about poverty ,but about homosexuality. THAT REAAALLLY HITS THE SPOT I LIKE!

That ending about the choir boys, too.

Still nonody has given other theories about why the UK is so religous.

Christianity came to Australia with the first British settlers on the First Fleet.[11] Of the convicts and settlers most were Roman Catholics (largely Irish convicts) and Anglicans. There were at least 15 Jews in the First Fleet, 14 convicts and one "free" child.[12] Other groups were also represented, for example among the Tolpuddle Martyrs, were a number of Methodists.[citation needed] The First Fleet brought tensions to Australia fuelled by historical grievances between Roman Catholics and other Christians, tensions that would continue into the 20th century.[13]

The first chaplain, Richard Johnson, a Church of England cleric, was charged by Governor Arthur Phillip with improving "public morality" in the colony, but he was also heavily involved in health and education.[14] Christian leaders have remained prominent in health and education in Australia ever since, with over a fifth of students attending church schools at the beginning of the 21st century and a number of the nation's hospitals, care facilities and charities having been founded by Christian organisations.[15]

Though free settlers began to arrive in the late 18th century, it was the gold rush of the 1850s that led to radically increased immigration. The new settlers brought with them their religious traditions, such as Irish Catholicism, Scottish Presbyterianism, and English Anglicanism, among others. Australian Aborigines suffered a tragic decline during this period, as they were dispossessed of their lands and diseases spread among their population. Christian churches organised missions during this period, formally intended to "civilise" Aboriginal communities and spread Christianity. The overall consequences of this activity are still disputed, but it contributed to the decline of indigenous languages and beliefs.

In Western Australia the Anglican clergy saw themselves as pioneering a new society. Besides the usual religious roles of leading church building and public worship they took a major part in charity, education and public debate. They attempted to refashion it in their own ecclesiastical image based on English models.[16]

The Church of England was disestablished in the colony of New South Wales by the Church Act of 1836. Drafted by the reformist attorney-general John Plunkett, the act established legal equality for Anglicans, Catholics and Presbyterians and was later extended to Methodists

Because that's a place where Christianity was forced. So it looks like it's there to stay for a while, sadly.

That still dosent explain why France isnt that religous after all Frankish King Charlemagne beheaded Thousands of pagans for not converting so there you go.

Hello?

Wow are people actually interested in this discussion. I can't even be bothered reading this, sounds like work... As for a response:

That still dosent explain why France isnt that religous after all Frankish King Charlemagne beheaded Thousands of pagans for not converting so there you go.

Charlemagne? That's quite a while ago, really. The reason France isn't that religious is probably more due to the catholic church being linked with the ancien régime.

Ignore this, I just made a bad joke

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Check this list out it seems pretty insightful.

The Germans are known for their practicality, they never do anything without a reason or planning. They like to approach everything from the logical angle and make sure everything is done efficiently.

Why cant the UK be more like that?

Well anymore reasons?

Why do you care, that's my question.

Why do you care, that's my question

-Because im sick tired of Religious schools being on every corner
-Im sick and tired of Jehovah witness coming to my door(One came by in 2011)
-Im sick and tired of Religious political parties (Australian Christian lobby)
-John Howard declaring Australia a "Christian nation" THAT MADE ME ANGRY!
-im tired of G#y bushings(Seriously WHY?)

Well why is it?

David Cameron Britain is a Christian country

Here's a better question - why are the idiots commenting here all insisting that this obviously faked bloodmoon picture is a sign of christian prophecy?

Because it's Fox "News".

Why cant the UK be more logical and advance?

I have an idea: you can find a group of people who agree with you, and go door to door to convince others!

If it can't work for Jehovah's witnesses, it won't work the other way around. In fact, it'll be even worse trying to convince religious people.

I was only joking, of course.

it'll be even worse trying to convince religious people.

Why? Because they don't listen to reason? Do you mean that you're open to their arguments, but they aren't open to yours?

Do you honestly think a Jehovah's Witness...someone who believes in a version of the bible involving extraterrestrials from some planet or whatever being Jesus and I think maybe Adam and Eve...is going to be open to arguments against their own crap?

And ETs are actually believable too! Not their Jesus versions, but actual ones. They obviously exist. Why would they not? Toga gods on another planet? Why?

Do you honestly think a Jehovah's Witness...is going to be open to arguments against their own crap?

You're evading my question. So I'll state it more clearly: are you open to arguments against your own crap?

If you're against wanting humanity to improve and progress, then I'm not open to that shit.

If you're against wanting humanity to improve and progress

Oh, but they do! They just disagree with you about what is improvement and progress.

I'm not open to that shit.

Then you're not very different from them.

I am if I want humanity to progress and they want god to do everything instead of us.

They want humanity to progress and believe that the way to do that is with the help of God. Many of them (but certainly not all) say that atheists like you and me are sinners and they refuse to listen to anything we say.

But you are saying they are idiots, and you refuse to listen to anything they say. That is not very different from their way of handling disagreements.

No, no. I'm saying that religious people who want god to handle everything and then all they do is pray and pray are holding us back.

They become even worse when they decide that vaccines are the devil and then diseases we once had defeated crawl back.

I agree with that, but you wrote:

In fact, it'll be even worse trying to convince religious people.

That suggests that all religious people are stubborn and all non-religious people are open to reason. I don't believe that is the case. I know very reasonable religious people and I have no reason to urge them to stop believing in a God, even if I don't.

On the other hand, I also know some extremely stubborn atheists. By no means do I intend to suggest that atheists are more stubborn than religious people on average. I'm just saying that religiousness isn't a very good way to guess if people can be convinced.

Then I suck at typing. But I was saying that trying to convince religious people that their beliefs are bullshit is worse than the other way around - that being Jehovah's witnesses trying to convince random people that Planet Toga and other shit are real things.

Although now that I think about that more, Jehovah's Witnesses have some of the more ridiculous ideas. So maybe it's about even.

...but also, I think I got Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses mixed up. Mormons are the ones with Planet Toga, aren't they? Or are they both the same? I just remember something about Mormon Jesus and god sending meteors to kill people.

Isn't that exactly what I said I disagreed with?

No.

To be fair, you live in the US. Religious people over here (I'm temporarily in the US as well) are more crazy on average than the ones I'm used to. Mormons believe Jesus was from Missouri. Many Americans believe God created the Earth in seven days and Man and Dinosaurs lived together. They also believe the planet is 6000 years old, I think. I think they justify fossils which are older than that by claiming that God put them there to test their faith. So why do they believe there actually were dinosaurs? We don't have anything other than fossils, and they say those are just a trick...

Oh well, I'm happy that I'm just a spectator and my own country, while not perfect, is good enough for me that I don't feel I really need to spend my life fixing it. I would urge everyone in the US to do that. If you want to, you should probably start here.

They also believe the planet is 6000 years old, I think.

Yup. Because direct proof that the bible is wrong is apparently wrong.

Because...

Yeah I think ur getting mixed up skurn, JW's don't believe in aliens and crap. But I don't think Mormons do either for that matter...

I like it. It sounds more straightforward than more general Christian beliefs. They get a much better afterlife too. Polygamous gods, bow chicka wow wow!

But the journey to Planet Toga will take forever.

A link to a video where the description says they don't believe that doesn't exactly help your case.

Christianity over there is like Islam in Saudi Arabia and Judaism in Isreal.

No, Christianity in Rome is like Islam in Saudi Arabia and Judaism in Israel. In the 'centre of' manner of speaking.

I posted this only to change the subject line tbh.

Haven't we had enough?

No, Christianity in Rome is like Islam in Saudi Arabia and Judaism in Israel. In the 'centre of' manner of speaking.

Actually it is.

The Vatican has the Cathloic Church(Not Italy,Italy is seperate)
Britain has the Anglican church

Ooooooh right right. So Christianity in the UK is like Islam in Iran, then.

o Christianity in the UK is like Islam in Iran, then.

No not Iran

But Saudi Arabia yes.

Well that just sounds wrong.

Scientology.

Remember that war they had with the internet?

Why cant it be more like France,Germany,Iceland,Switzerland,Austria,Finland,Poland, ect.

Interestingly, if you look at the 'Do you believe in Heaven?' survey in the (I think) October 2009 issue of Reader's Digest, the answers are 64% for the UK, 58% for Germany, 50% for France. If we include other European nations in the 'etc.' then Spain had 63% and Italy had 83%. So it pretty much is like France, Germany, Iceland, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Poland, etc. and that's not even counting the other religions that exist but don't have the concept of heaven.

Invalidity.

The better question would be,do you believe in a afterlife.

Certainly. I think it's quite obvious we'll all join Lord Stleekomass on his eternal spaceship to travel the sewers of space.

let's keep going.