Reply to: bravo for the swiss

[NotAllThere]

80% of people living in Switzerland are Swiss. Only the Swiss have the vote. The turnout was above 50% (which is quite high for a people's initiative).

Apparently the percentage of women voting this time was higher than usual. ( Woman have been allowed to vote in Switzerland for a few decades now ).

[lilelvis2000]

Meanwhile, back on topic...

The posters by the SVP (the rather xenophobic right wing party of Switzerland) were banned in a number of cantons. Most of the major churches and Christian organisations in the country were in favour of NOT banning minarets. The biggest yes vote to the ban was in the predominanty Catholic Cantons.

Who votes in this things anyway? Anybody living in Switzerland or only Swiss..'cause I reckon that's probably only about 60% of the population then.

[lilelvis2000]

If you vote for UKIP they are in favour of more referenda for stuff like this.

Yeah. as if they'd get into government. So they can say what they like.

[Lockhouse]

If you vote for UKIP they are in favour of more referenda for stuff like this.

[Doggy Styles]

At least the Swiss are able to make up their own laws.

Could the UK ban minarets or Scientology Churches?

[NotAllThere]

Meanwhile, back on topic...

The posters by the SVP (the rather xenophobic right wing party of Switzerland) were banned in a number of cantons. Most of the major churches and Christian organisations in the country were in favour of NOT banning minarets. The biggest yes vote to the ban was in the predominanty Catholic Cantons.

[NickFitz]

When the Romans invaded Britain they were not Christian and were converted to Christianity some time later.

Constantine was the first roman Christian emperor in 306, about 100 years before the fall of the Romans in Britain.

So you admit that RC was correct in stating that the Romans were not Christians when they invaded Britain. After all, you yourself say that the Romans didn't have a Christian emperor until almost three hundred years after the first Roman occupation of Britain, AD43.

[HairyArsedBloke]

"Christianity came at the pagan Anglo-Saxons from two directions. The Celtic Church, pushed back into Wales, Cornwall, and particularly Ireland, made inroads in the north from an early base on Lindisfarne Island. The Roman Catholic Church approached from the south, beginning with the mission of St.Augustine to Aethelbert, King of Kent, in 597."

Bastards, all of 'em.

Why can't all your w.. religion frak off home and let us pagans live in harmony with nature as the Gods and Goddess want us to?

[minestrone]

Well some of us have to get up in the morning for work so I should better switch the PC off now.

[Clippy]

Hey, ministrone, my 4000th post on CUK was spent making you look a complete c**t. Class, eh?

You have been made to look an arse. Again. Now FOAD, troll.

[minestrone]

I think someone has been on the shandies tonight.

[RichardCranium]

The first Christians were catholics, the Apostle St Peter was given the job of pope by Christ himself.

Oh dear. You really did believe all the propaganda they told you at school, didn't you?

I never stated that romans were always christian but by the 4th century rome was a christian empire

It's what you were getting at though until I educated you, wasn't it?

And it was the emperor that was converted at that time, not the empire.

, you stated as fact that "Christianity was brought to mainland Britain by Irish missionaries." then post a date from the 6th century.

and a reference to a Christian missionary priest centuries prior to the Emperor saying he was Christian that the Romans wanted dead.

Sorry to prove you wrong, but, I have.

No you haven't. You have been made to look an arse. Again. Now FOAD, troll.

[minestrone]

Hey, ministrone, my 4000th post on CUK was spent making you look a complete c**t. Class, eh?



Were you under the impression the Romans were always Christian? Like, BEFORE Christ was born?

So, were Adam & Eve Christians too? Did your Catholic school teach you that, too?

The first Christians were catholics, the Apostle St Peter was given the job of pope by Christ himself.

I never stated that romans were always christian but by the 4th century rome was a christian empire, you stated as fact that "Christianity was brought to mainland Britain by Irish missionaries." then post a date from the 6th century.


Sorry to prove you wrong, but, I have.

[RichardCranium]

So we do now admit that the Romans brought Christianity to Britain.

Thanks

The Romans killed him for being a Christian having been converted by a missionary priest, you utter f**kwit.

[RichardCranium]

Wot? The roman that was killed by the romans for being christian? Over 200 years AFTER the romans got here?

Hey, ministrone, my 4000th post on CUK was spent making you look a complete c**t. Class, eh?



Were you under the impression the Romans were always Christian? Like, BEFORE Christ was born?

So, were Adam & Eve Christians too? Did your Catholic school teach you that, too?