I guess that another example of having things forced on us would be the prospect of treaty and truth following the failure of the voice. Like wolcome to country/acknowledgement of country, it is forced on the plebs by people who think that they have a moral authority that exempts them from mundane conventions like democracy.

Paul

There are only three extreme posters, and you are one of them.

If I did have the list that you wildly imagine, you would be numbers three on it; you are merely crude and rude. The other two are noxious.

European culture WAS superior to Stone Age culture. It wasn't just a "belief". Australian aboriginal culture was the most miserable and backward in the entire world at the time of British settlement.

Like your old mate, David F, you know nothing about Christianity, and there is no reason why you should. Your mistake is pontificating on things about which you know absolutely nothing. Stick to the Green religion, old fella: you are an undoubted expert on that.

comments like; " enemy of the State" from Indy
Paul1405,
What do you call someone who give nothing back to the community they live in ?
Paul1405 ?

I came across this tweet of bible verses last night.
It's actually not the tweet linked to, but the response to that tweet.
(So you will have to scroll down just a little from the main post)

Is it relevant?

5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, 6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

9 “‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,[a] burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? 11 Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

12 “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. 14 Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. 15 I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’

Hi ttbn and indyvidual,
I too was forced to go to church and Sunday School, but only for 3 years during grades 8 - 10 of high school, but would frequently go and stay at my friends places on Saturday nights in order to avoid it.
- My father remarried a girl nearly half his age (He was 33 and she 17) and that girl, my stepmum was religious as were her large family.
This is very much a part of the reason why I criticise Christians the way I do, (and support ethics over religion) but I just never shared this fact about my adolescence with the forum.

Sorry, I forgot to add the link to the tweet of bible verses.
(There's also much more in the tweet, that I didn't have the space to post)
http://twitter.com/AndrewCoatswor3/status/1714417059512094986