you want a serious answer?
well for a start I, and the posters above, clearly give a shit.
As should you.
I currently live in a muslim country where you can go to prison for being claimed to have been overheard for criticising the ruler. Where people regularly get imprisoned and beaten for carrying out magical rites. Where Apostasy is punishable by prison or even death. Where they are currently demolishing the only church in the country to build a roundabout, only to also pronounce that any new churches would be illegal (despite the Koran's explicit stance contradicting this).
The United Kingdom, for all it's petty and crazed fuckwittery, has been a place of peace and tolerance for nigh on a thousand years (the odd decade notwithstanding). You have absolutely no idea how precious this is, and how important the bodies, checks & balances are that protect us.
We are the inheritors of a truly incredible civilisation, the litter, the CCTV, the Mail not withstanding, but if you will allow me a tired misquote, the only thing required for vicious bigoted cunts to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
Please reassess your position and get involved, if not in this, in something.
(, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 21:34, Reply)
There's plenty of religious advertising around *stating* there *is* a god
and you get all huffy about some people suggesting there may not be.
Personally I don't believe we should have respect for other people's beliefs if they're clearly unfounded. That's not the same as saying we shouldn't allow people to hold those beliefs, but frankly God is no more credible than the Flying Spaghetti Monster (bless His noodley appendages) and I have the right to say so.
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slight yoinks!, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 11:20,
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"There's definitely a Flying Spaghetti Monster,
Now stop worrying, and enjoy your pasta"?
(, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 14:34, Reply)
It's an advert on a bus
a very dull advert on a bus. I doubt the route even goes past where you live, unless Tottenham has moved continents.
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SpunkyBackpack, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 11:45,
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