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Religion and Spirituality

TheCatWoman

I know this is a contentious issue, but I wnat to talk about it anyway and I hope people can be respectful to the beliefs of others. 

It seems to me that although we in the UK are called a Christian country, we're not, most people don't attend church, many are nominally Christian, church for hatchings, matchings and despatchings, maybe xmas and easter too. Many will attend church to get their children into a high performing church school. Our main bank holidays focus on a Christian festival calendar, Easter, Pentecost, Xmas etc, but I wonder if we should add the holy days of other faiths, like EId, Diwali, the Solticies?

We have so many faiths in this country and many people who don't identify with any particular faith, but are broadly believers in something.

I'd like to see bishops removed from the House of Lords and the Church of England disestablished, in a multifath society I don't see what their place is in the giovernance of the country, I think you either have to have representatives of all faiths or none and seeing as many faiths don't have an episcopal system I don't see how it would work where the representatives come from and which community would they be representing? I think the same is true of the current situation and bishops, there are many Christian sects that do not recognise and episcopal system.  

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  • I consider myself "post-theist" - which means that one doesn't really think about it any more. I have complete tolerance for the beliefs of others though, and in the past I have worked or studied with Jewish, Pagan and Hindu colleagues and found their beliefs and traditions really interesting. My Jewish and Pagan colleagues would both book time off work on the days of their religious festivals.

    I would also like to see Bishops removed from the House of Lords, as I feel that religion should be separated from politics. Obviously religion needs to be considered by politicians in certain circumstances and in the making of certain laws, but they need to be impartial. I personally would prefer the UK to be more like France, but that is just my opinion and I'm pretty sure it's not the opinion of the majority of people, and as I value democracy I'll accept what the majority want.

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  • I consider myself "post-theist" - which means that one doesn't really think about it any more. I have complete tolerance for the beliefs of others though, and in the past I have worked or studied with Jewish, Pagan and Hindu colleagues and found their beliefs and traditions really interesting. My Jewish and Pagan colleagues would both book time off work on the days of their religious festivals.

    I would also like to see Bishops removed from the House of Lords, as I feel that religion should be separated from politics. Obviously religion needs to be considered by politicians in certain circumstances and in the making of certain laws, but they need to be impartial. I personally would prefer the UK to be more like France, but that is just my opinion and I'm pretty sure it's not the opinion of the majority of people, and as I value democracy I'll accept what the majority want.

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