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  1. DMD

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    So you're not practicing what you preach then, you hypocritical old fart. :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  2. Ciaran

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    Only subjects belonging to a particular Church can become Head of State. I am banned from becoming head of state due to my perceived Religion.
     
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    And quite right too. Although that's a consequence of religion pushing in to politics rather than a monarchy per se.
     
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  4. Ciaran

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    Your Monarch is the Head of State and Head of the CoE.
     
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  5. DMD

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    Yep, but that wasn't always the case. The two seperate roles were merged. Once people drop the childish need for imaginary friends, it can be dropped again.
     
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  6. Ciaran

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    It's the case now though. Also, why has there never been a Catholic PM?
     
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  7. The Cunnilungus Connoisseur

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    Blair was a jump the dyke.

    Are you saying you can’t become PM if you are disciple of Rome?
     
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  8. Ciaran

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    Blair had to wait until leaving office to become a practising Catholic, why?

    I asked a question, why has there never been a Catholic PM in the UK?
     
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  9. Easter Road 1980

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    Because Kafflicks are thick as pigshit basically.

    There, I've said what everyone else has been thinking <ok>
     
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    Boris Johnson 'first baptised Catholic' to become prime minister

    BORIS Johnson has become the first baptised Catholic to become prime minister.

    The 55-year-old, whose mother Charlotte Fawcett is Catholic, was baptised as a child.

    His godmother is Lady Rachel Billington – daughter of the devoutly Catholic Lord Longford.

    However, Mr Johnson was confirmed an Anglican while studying at Eton as a teenager.

    Tory minister Michael Gove previously caused a storm by claiming that Mr Johnson's predecessor Theresa May was the first Catholic prime minister.

    He said Mrs May was "an Anglo-Catholic rather than a Roman Catholic, but no less a Catholic for that".

    Mr Gove claimed Mrs May's announcement that she had given up crisps for Lent was telling because although many Christians observe Lenten sacrifice "it is particularly a feature of Catholic practice".

    Mrs May's late father Hubert Brasier was a clergyman seen as part of the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Anglican church.


    Boris Johnson 'first baptised Catholic' to become prime minister - The Irish News
     
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  11. DMD

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    Why would any thinking person follow one of the Abrahmic faiths, when even a cursory glance at the 'holy' books shows it's a nonsense? The god of those books can't even meet it's own definition of a god.

    As Epicurus asks:
    1. If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful.
    2. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good.
    3. If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist?
     
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  12. Ciaran

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  13. DUNCAN DONUTS

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    Any Church of England following Prime ministers ever in Ireland out of curiosity?

    Never given it a second thought before now
     
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  14. Archers Road

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    Tony Blair mate.

    Also, Benjamin Disraeli, who was a 4b2.
     
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  16. Archers Road

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    No, you have to get a plane <ok>
     
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  17. DUNCAN DONUTS

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    download (27).jpeg
     
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    So you have your £10 Ryanair ticket to Spain, just the £200 of charges for luggage. When you get back from Spain, there is just the ten days of quarantine on return and the cost of the two Covid-19 tests.
     
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  19. Archers Road

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  20. Ciaran

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    Yes, Douglas Hyde was President of Ireland from 1938.
     
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