SWP's back said:
Gillespie said:
Despite the tasteless intolerance you have for those who have religious faith (btw around 60% of Britons when recently asked described themselves as Christian....add on Muslims and Jews, the figure would be higher) I rather like your idea of discriminating between those people who don't have a 'real fucking job' and those that do. How about depriving them of the vote? You know, no representation without taxation?
It is not tasteless in the slightest. Whether people are of faith or not makes no odds to me but putting them on a pedestal as Mike D because they have faith is moronic. The fact they have faith is no more important than what their favourite pie is or which football team they purport to follow.
As to however many "describe" themselves as Christian, so fucking what. 50% of Yanks believe the creation myth as opposed to evolution. Argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy and the last bastion of those without a fucking clue.
A do think one should probably have "a real fucking job" before lecturing others and how to run a country mind.
That's interesting, I hold a similar point of view on people who don't vote.
Did this survey have the following options:
-Couldn't care less
-Think they're all cockwombles (or similar)
?
I was stopped in Galway by someone doing a similar survey recently and my options were Roman Catholic and other religion. I told him I was a pagan with a particular passion for Pan the goat god. Don't think he got the joke, but he left me alone, which was the planned outcome.