Comments on: Great Britain – Greater

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:43:54 +0000

I have always been of the opinion that the UK is becoming predominantly atheist but since I started my new job (I’m a “musician” so I work a lot of McJobs) I have been amazed at how many creationists I now know. As a result of immigration, particularly from Africa and the Caribbean there has been a large influx of religion, and it’s quite scary pentecostal Christianity as well-speaking in tongues, creationism etc. It seems to me that most young black people are not only Christian but also claim they don’t “believe” in evolution. It drives me barmy. The friends of mine like this are all very nice and usually intelligent people but they just won’t countenance the idea that the bible is fictional. It’s a scary world.

By: Greenworld

Greenworld — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:13:47 +0000

In Nature’s God We Trust.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:27:46 +0000

Yeah but she’s the head of State as well. Heading the Church of England is secondary to that, even if being the Head of State is more to do with tradition and symbols nowadays

By: Lavin

Lavin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:34:42 +0000

acctually, the Curch Of England had no problem with Darwin’s discovery

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:57:41 +0000

Andy wrote:

“Hm. Wonder when Ben Franklin was President…”

That was in 1776, right after Columbus discovered Europe, right?

:-)

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:56:18 +0000

Hm. Wonder when Ben Franklin was President…

By: God

God — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:02:13 +0000

Actually Darwin lived in whole world full of religious nuts.

By: america

america — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:49:43 +0000

AMERICA IS AWESOME! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU BRITS CAN GO DRINK YOUR TEA AND NOT TEND TO YOUR BAD TEETH WHILE WE GET MOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY AND SEX AND ALL OF THE OTHER COOL THINGS IN THIS WORLD… is what i would say if i didn’t just lose my job in the recession. damn…

By: D-san

D-san — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:38:03 +0000

olleicua, there is a difference between the color green and the phrase “in god we trust” – namely, that the latter postulates an opinion intended to speak for all Americans. Not anymore, you say? Well, obviously, but why is it still on our currency? The color green makes no definitive statement about anyone. I think the only real reason anyone could say that “in god we trust” does not discriminate against atheists is because to say otherwise would involve the replacement of our currency.

You change the dollar, people accuse you of hating America or destroying tradition or any number of fallacious accusations. I agree that it’s a non-issue, and not discrimination in the truest sense because the words were coined before any of began to take up the argument.

But I’m reasonably sure there were plenty of atheists, agnostics, humanists and secularists in America in 1957, when “In God We Trust” was first printed on money. And I’m positive that the people in charge of printing that money knew that. My only assumption is that that segment of the population (small but historically present in our country since its conception) was not considered particularly important. Or the Mint simply didn’t care.

Times change.

By: billy the briton

billy the briton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:45:40 +0000

im glad to say that i live in britain, maters of religion VERY RARELY come up, except when there is an extremest group protesting or when something regarding a specific religion happens,
its very much either a atheist country or a “weak tea” country regarding religion