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Pat Condell that fellas name is on the youtube vlog posted above^^. I came across him on youtube a few years back. At first I thought fair enough, an aggressive attack on religion, it deserves it. But after a couple of 10 min vlogs of him going on and on, I just wanted to crack him over the head with a Quran.

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Musically, I've heard worse Xtian music than that. It's a bit like U2  - which is no great recommendation in my book, but then in my day we had stuff like this in the pop charts:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pFu5PKf_Cg

 

Why can't they just stick to Sister Rosetta Tharpe?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M

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Sister Rosetta is more like it.

 

When I was dragged to church as a child we waited at a bus stop next to what I think was a Baptist church. The congregation was West Indian and we could hear their joyous singing inside. We had to go to a dark, cold, depressing Catholic church. My sister and I wanted to go to the Baptist church but our parents weren't having any of it.

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Well, after reading that I'm convinced...

that some people's heads are just tapped by religion.

The only embarrassing thing for me is to be associated in this thread with the new atheist movement that has Hitchens and, in this thread at least, UKIP supporting right winger Pat Condell as it's poster boys.

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I'm an atheist and a socialist, so I instinctively tend to assume left wing = atheist = good, and right wing = godbotherer = bad.

 

Which of course I realise is altogether too simplistic.

 

I can agree with someone's views on subject A, without having to automatically agree with their views on subject B.

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I'm an atheist and a socialist, so I instinctively tend to assume left wing = atheist = good, and right wing = godbotherer = bad.

 

Which of course I realise is altogether too simplistic.

 

I can agree with someone's views on subject A, without having to automatically agree with their views on subject B.

Thing is Mike, typically Left wing thinking is more in line with what traditional Christian teaching - care, share etc . Whereas Right wing thinking is pretty much built on selfishness

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I think it tends to be bollocks, from my humble and limited experience.

 

However, I do see a lot of traditionalist conservative types that go to church and talk church talk, as that is where they perceive the power, influence and the favours to be.

You will also find them at the golf club, and the Masons and all those old power types of places. That does not mean they believe in golf balls or nipples.

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