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    Angela Merkel: Multicultural society has failed.

    It is good for certain financial and industrial interests. The civil service has also become effectively twinned, in terms of crossover relationships, between Brussells and at least Whitehall and it is probably the same all over the EU. Also certain liberal viewpoints welcome the sort of...
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    Angela Merkel: Multicultural society has failed.

    No your not, your an immigrant to one of the EU member states. We haven't lost our sovereignty completely yet, though the ...... in Brussells are doing their best.
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    Angela Merkel: Multicultural society has failed.

    I suppose it would depend upon your views of man, society and culture and how encompassing, unifying and important for the individual you saw them, however hasn't there always been something somewhat oxymoronic about the statement "multiculturalism"?
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    What do you think about the blessing of same sex unions in the Episcopal Church?

    It is absurd. I've never seen it argued for in terms of traditional Christian or Anglican doctrine or theology or metaphysics. Such nonsense is one reason why the Anglican church is becoming a bigger and bigger joke.
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    Obama Can't Talk About Gay or Trans Folks With Conviction

    Can I just say that is an article with an astounding amount of misconceptions.
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    The gay-bashing capital of Europe

    We have though basically signed up to the most important bit, the removal of borders between us and EU member states.
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    Please tell me this isn't the case. If it is I'm going to cry

    I believe so, but I'm unsure what your objection is. You appear to be looking a religion which is devoid of much that isn't naturalist/materialist.
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    What is the biggest thing makes me convert to Christianity?

    Usually the more flippant the atheistic statements the less informed the individual usually is. Hence no one goes to Dawkins or C.Hitchens for sensible commentary on religion.
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    Nirvana

    No-thingness would be a better way of putting it. It is No-thing but is everything.
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    Gay rights debate triggers record flight from church

    Because it is at the heart of traditional Christianity, the phrase goes bacn to St Irenaeus of Lyon in the 2nd century. No offense but I'm unsure though how profitable a deep debate on Christian theological issues will be with an agnostic not deeply read in these issues. This at least has been...
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    Please tell me this isn't the case. If it is I'm going to cry

    My point is you are utterly wrong to class mysticism and magic in with "new age".
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    Stephen Fry Intelligence 2

    I saw that debate before, I thought each side was pretty poor. The anti-Catholics were clearly playing into the anti-traditional, anti-hierarchy, anti-authority and liberal and modern preconceptions of modern Brits. I mean Christopher Hitchens'(whose brother is far more interesting.) concluding...
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    Obama Can't Talk About Gay or Trans Folks With Conviction

    If by judicial activism you mean a proper position of originalism and strict construction then that doesn't either have to unreasoned or rabidly democratic. One can certainly find it expressed historically in the US by many diverse figures. Checks and balances can be used and set up in...
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    Many of the Traditionalists are excellent thinkers but Schuon is, in my opinion, even more...

    Many of the Traditionalists are excellent thinkers but Schuon is, in my opinion, even more insightful than they are. I would probably say he is the most insightful thinker of the 20th century. Henry Corbin is also a very interesting fellow traveler to the Traditionalists who deals mainly with...
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    Please tell me this isn't the case. If it is I'm going to cry

    No traditional religion "does new age". Many Western, new age types may think they are Buddhists or Taoists but they're almost always widely at odds with traditional Buddhism or Taoism. Mysticism is not "new age", nor is magic/divination. I wouldn't dignify scientology with the name...
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    Obama Can't Talk About Gay or Trans Folks With Conviction

    I'm pretty sympathetic to the originalist and strict constructionist viewpoint, the problem with any other is that it, as Jefferson said, tends to turn constitutions and laws into mere wax for judges to remake. It all then becomes about stacking the judiciary along ideological lines; judicial...
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    Gay rights debate triggers record flight from church

    The most central thesis of Christianity is that God became man that man became God. Loving God and loving Man does not necessarily mean loving all the acts of man, hence Christ said the laws of the prophets hang upon these commandments, they are a reflection of these commandments then, so one...
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    Did God make the rules?

    But your argument was about debunking theism as illogical. Anyway I think you have the wrong idea of "identity". It is better to say that identity exists because Being exists. Identity is simply to say Being is and must be Being or alternatively Being is simply identity in its fullest extent...
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    Did God make the rules?

    But that was never part of our argument. It is not illogical to consider identity as part of God though. I think you are abusing reason. You have an idea of identity as something discrete, as simply the law we see on paper. But it exists and yet partly defines existence, your already then far...
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    The gay-bashing capital of Europe

    We have the part that lets anyone from an EU nation come to Britain whenever they want.
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