A Thinking Man

I have just set up a new Facebook Group to register support for the separation of Church and State in the UK.  The group’s position is as follows:
People are free to believe whatever they want (however strange).
The state should no longer be involved in formally supporting any particular religion.
Religious people should not have access to [...]

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There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution.  The bar may finally be lifted.  Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]

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Spain is courageously seeking to follow a difficult path of modernization.
The Spanish government has announced plans to secularize the constitution and remove privileges that have been granted uniquely to the Roman Catholic Church.
When the Spanish government was sworn in last April, the Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero decided to take his oath [...]

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In the early part of the sixteenth century, a man called Felix Manz was executed in Switzerland. He was a sincere Christian, and his only crime was that he held different views about baptism from those held by the sincere Christians in the local ruling authority. They chose drowning as a method of execution.
Aha, you [...]

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