So not a pastafarian then. That term "Christian" would then include most of jews, muslims, hindus, buddhas, atheists and so on, as most of them aspire to be well meaning, kind and helpful etc. even if they believe in some God(s) or not.
Joe will set them straight [video=youtube;hqLqzovBQw0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLqzovBQw0[/video]
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27099700 David Cameron risks causing "alienation" in society by saying Britain is a "Christian country", a group of public figures has warned Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the assertion Britain is a Christian country was "not factually accurate". He said a YouGov poll found 65% of people questioned described themselves as "not religious", while 29% said they were. He said those people would have come from a range of faiths - not just Christianity
It's mostly Christians who are 'not religious'. Would you spend Sunday morning at your local 'C of E' church?...
As a silly servant, for Easter we were fortunate to have both Friday & Monday off, then next up is May 19th to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. My typical commute to work.........and what I get up to in the office:- [video=youtube;oYlzTdSZeI4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYlzTdSZeI4&feature=youtu.be&a[/video] We must enjoy those paid public holidays since the new benchmark for retirement was recently set at 65 rather than 60, with 5% per year penalty if you decide to go early. Our State pension (Canada Pension - CPP) will also be gradually extended from 65 to 67.
No complaints about supermarkets and shops being open but they need to pay staff triple pay on Bank Holidays and double on Sunday. Corporatism is ruining society and football for that matter. Look at the Moyes farce, his sacking has to be announced first on the New York Stock Exchange apparently. How we have let things get this crazy? I miss the old days, we are blindly heading towards Fascism 2.0 brought to us Facebook, Google, and the dear old USA.
In New York most off the people who work are ones who need the money, and because of the unemployment situation the companies pay whay the like. A lot them are also non-Christians,who this holiday has no religious meaning for them.
Non-Christians? Why should they care about a Christian holiday. For that matter in Islam Hazrat Isa (A. S.) didn't die on the cross anyway.
What's wrong with you? Public holidays are a hard won workers' right. We should be making sure everyone is paid well enough to enjoy them, not looking forward to time and a half to pay the rent or gas bill. I'm beginning to respect the French attitude to work, and the German Works Councils, more and more. I'm lucky, I enjoy my work and am well paid, but it amazes me how few educated people really understand that all work in this system is exploitation, generating surplus value for capital. I miss the old days too, and find myself drifting back left with every passing day. But I still struggle with the personalities on the left and the desire to come to accommodations with the system. And the alternative requires a degree of compulsion which the libertarian in me can't stomach, we will never achieve the consensus needed to build a different place where we are all rich. **** it.
(((sb_73))) Can't stand France or Germany as places to live but they have it 100% right on the regulation of work. We live in a kleptocracy amid corruption worse than Italy and it cannot go on, things will come to a head with sadly a swing to the far right in the name of misguided nationalism here in the UK. I'm planning my exit, semi retired, financially semi ok and want to move back to Italy, Sicily to be precise. Better the Devil one knows. Did you see this on "Mafia" in the province of Trapani? Excellent article, I know the area well: http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...t-mafia-fugitive-matteo-messina-denaro-sicily
I met Falcone, briefly, in social settings a couple of times in about 1990. Though at that time I didn't really understand what he was trying to do. A great man, fighting a corrupt system as well as organised crime. There will never be a final victory in this war, but as long as people like him, Borsalino and countless other are prepared to fight it, there is some hope.
Things are changing, Western Sicily is unrecognisable compared to the 70's although Salemi certainly has a terrible vibe on it, one can feel the hand of the "Piovra" on it. That said there are bastions of relative sanity, Mazara del Vallo is wonderful, have my oldest friends there and visit every year. It may not be be beautiful but it still has the original Arab plan in the Kasbah and a very easy atmosphere compared to elsewhere. The Kasbah: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=k...CB7QaB_oHIDA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1623&bih=871 It's like going back in time which in Italy can only be a good thing. Can't bear to visit the mainland anymore. Anyway, visiting Mazara one has to drive across the very motorway section at Capaci where Judge Facone was assassinated not to mention the L'aeroporto Palermo Falcone e Borsellino, Punta Raisi.
I know its a fact but what on earth has it got to do with this thread?!! This is about a Christian holiday. What Islam preaches about Jesus is irrelevant Imaz.
I'm not, although I used to be one. Quite actively so. And I ain't a taxi driver no more, not for a long time. Got done for drink driving.
