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I can even just about look past the fact that they're..... German

true but the english in the past were a mix of french and germans, anglo saxons,think they are a mix of a few nationalities nowadays,lol

You have no idea how sad that makes me... Bloody surrender monkeys.

being catholic...i cant knock catholicism, but as for kings and queens...off with their heads!

HAIL,HAIL-THE POPE'S IN JAIL
WHAT THE ELL DO WE CARE
LET THE BUGGER STAY THERE!

Ooops-sorry bout that Romy-just slipped out?

Used to be sung at Rangers-v-Celtic matches!

No reflection on you tho Romy-you are a very nice lady indeed!.

hi alan, no offence taken, i love jokes about religion, including my own, if we could all learn to laugh at each other and with each other, the world would be a better place!

Ahhh-tis a lovely-but distant thought!

Thought the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland said that.

Is Roman Catholic and lets never forget the church of England is only the resuly of King Henry 8th. England by nature was a Catholic country. Catholicism just means Universal church :)

Someone had to start breaking the power of Rome!
Would have happened sooner or later like everywhere else in Europe.

Debatable but with " Luther" in Germany and the happenings in France It is a valid point.However to regards of the situation in the UK one must understand that once Henry 8th started to reform the actual "fabric" of worship nothing changed apart from the dissolution of of the Monasteries and the vandalism and destruction of holy relics and statues. In the North of England where there was rebellion after rebellion. Henry himself carried on worshiping the Trident mass and was a scholar of his day in Latin text. It is interesting to see in the Uk TODAY how there are two churches within the Church of England : The high church(catholic in nature) and the low church (very puritan).

http://www.cresourcei.org/lowhighchurch.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Church

Wikki is at best dodgy to be truthful. The situation with the High church of England is that in many cases they are being starved of money by liberal Bishops. The sad thing is we in the Catholic church seem to help them more then there own. What Wiki refers to as a low church is in reality a small church with a low attendance that as been taken over by Fundamentalist. The Bishop of Durham even suggested that there is no need to believe that Christ was divine to be a Christian. With the ordination of practicing gay Bishops and female priests the Church of England is in "free fall". Very sad to see.

Wiki is nevertheless a good place to start your search from - granted, there 'may' be bias in some of the articles but enough links are given for a person to persue a very detailed line of reasoning.......

Its "open source" if you join up you can add to it. I am a archaeologist and trust some of the stuff on Wiki on about the suject is silly :)

I believe there were various forms of Paganism being practiced in Britain before Rome decided to outlaw and kill any who disagreed with Christianity

Exactly, and mores to the point, they above all people shouldnt be allowed to inflict the devisiveness of any religion on their peoples - its all just a great game of chess with us as the pawns - much like the stock market really

There are many examples in early christian churches within Britain where one can find Pagan symbols along side that of Christ, the green man for example can be found in many early christian churches here. It was a early version of Vatican 2 and the catholic church still does this in many Latin American countries today. The persecution of Christians within the Roman Empire was wide spread before the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine.

Religions rule by fear of the vengeance of their invisible sky daddies - sack the lot of em is what I say - kings and queens too - the ones we have are only titular puppets anyway, as Seabiscuit said, the only thing they are any good for is tourism - oh, and who would be head of the church of England if they went, however would they keep up with appearances then? the Monarchy lends credence to the Church and accordingly to the power structures which have kept us all in serfdom for far too long - shoot the buggers

Are you perchance suggesting that life in Britain was none existant before the Roman invasion?