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#Christian-nation
Eric Pickles: Britain Still A Christian Nation – Get Over It | Politics | The Guardian
Politically correct intolerance
Pickles changed the law in 2012 to ensure that English parish councils could not face legal challenges for including prayers in public meetings, and accused the last Labour government of "diminishing Christianity" by suggesting that religion and politics could not mix. The…
When Eric Pickles Calls Britain A Christian Nation I Side With The Atheists | Giles Fraser | Comment | The Guardian
Christianity and the romans
And Christianity was, among other things, an exposure of the violence of the Roman state towards those who did not share its values. That is what the cross is all about. Christianity went bad when it became appropriated by the Roman empire and the cross went from being a symbol…