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When Bush persued his totally unjustified and catastrophic invasion of Iraq, our peace group in Bath loudly and vehemently opposed it and our country's involvement in it. Bur we were at great pains to show that we were not anti-American, only anti-Bush. Many visiting Americans signed our...

Aha! Eventually found it using a Google image search on my forum name. Only a smaller copy of it though so I had to resize it in an image editing program. Not quite as sharp as the original, but it'll do. :-)

I have found a copy of Brian's avatar on my computer. I hope it may be useable.

Hence the inverted commas. I was referring to those lost souls who get talked into a camapign of violence. Can you suggest a better term?

Can anyone help? As a result of some technical changes to this site, some of the avatars have got lost. I've now lost the original copy of mine and I really liked it. Brian has lost his avatar too. Has anyone ever saved any pages from the forum on to their computer? If so, they may find the...

What do we know about 'Jihadists'? We know that they are typically only casually involved with religion, never having previously taken much interest. They are secretly radicalised by a small number of political extremists. They take advantage of their subject's ignorance of the Quran and the...

I'm probably asking for trouble for saying this but, just taking part in this forum must mean that its members are interested so some extent in what others think. Even you, 17th.;) Maybe I should have made the poll "Do I try to see the other point of view?". Can we be passionate and open-minded...

I seem to have dedicated my life to seeing the other person's point of view, and being nice to people. I always thought that was good. And here comes Granny Weatherwax the Discworld witch, telling me I've got it all wrong. The trouble is, I can't read this passage without an inward cheer. Are we...

I wonder what caused that

Tombstone Arizona 1881 :)

Sorry, I didn't intend to drag this out so long. Occam first. I think you must be looking at a different Wiki from me. Mine says: We are so close to agreemnet on the other issue. You are saying, with scriptural authority, that Jesus put aside his quality of being God. That's fine by me. He put...

I was wondering if anyone would say that. I think there was a complete break with the ancient Greek & Roman cultures as such. The writing remained but everything else went under. The whole way of life. Interesting point though, because it underlines how different it was then. And I immediately...

We all use the laws of Physics to our advantage. I don't see how this advances your argument. I agree, God exists unchanging outside time. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, according to the Gospels. [URL="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+1:21&version=KJV"] So Jesus the man could...

Just a few thoughts Amergin, forgive the generalisations. Loads of people hate gays. Some Christian fundies, many muslims, very many black Africans regardless of religious connection, I don't know about the far East but I wouldn't be surprised if there were parts that were distinctly anti-gay...

I've just been reading about Marcion, born 85AD and close to St Paul. You can read more here. So this idea is far from new. My view is that each age struggles with the idea of God and interprets their vision in terms of what they are familiar with. So a patriarchial, war-like race descended...

Aarrgh! I don't believe it! ;-)

Yes everyone subscribes to the ideal of a Catholic Church. It's even in the Apostle's Creed. They just don't do it in practice. I just get the feeling that Catholics think they are the only REAL Christians, and the rest of us are just pretending, or simply don't count. Are you referring to the...

I'm amazed you think this is appropriate language for an interfaith dialogue. Aren't you a moderator? Can't you moderate yourself? I managed to pass the first sixteen years of my life without knowing what antisemitic meant. When I found out I couldn't understand it or believe it. In the 60s it...

Are you saying this is what happened?

Catholics tend to think that they are the only Christians. What she meant was not that she's leaving Christianity, but leaving the Catholic Church. The number of people I have met who have harangued me at length about the evils of Christianity, when what they were talking about was in fact the...