She's crazy.
You could explain to her that this is not a Christian country but rather a secular democracy. Half the population don't even consider themselves to be religious.
Alternatively, add her address to your spam filter, problem solved.
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You could explain to her that this is not a Christian country but rather a secular democracy. Half the population don't even consider themselves to be religious.
Alternatively, add her address to your spam filter, problem solved.
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Her point is sound in terms of practice but her reasoning is stupid.
Catholics are Christians. All variants of Christianity use the same year for Jesus' birth anyway. So why do you think there's any confusion?
I'm fairly confident that hasn't been true since 1538.
Then you're not a roman catholic, obviously, or a theist of any kind. You're an atheist. You can't expect to so utterly contradict yourself in the same sentence and be taken seriously.
Then you should understand the usefulness of precision. It doesn't apply so rigorously to language, but it does apply.
You can be a theist and "all science and big bang stuff", for some versions of theism. Science is perfect for "how?". It's not much use for "why?" other than as ever more refined answers to "how?".
So why use a religous calendar?
You're arguing that we should use a religious calendar and pretend it isn't religious even though we know it is religious...and you're calling her crazy?
I always thought it was because of the meaning of the terms rather than the fact its a religious calender.
Is Jesus my Lord? No.
Maybe he's a Catholic who believes that God is unknowable, thus making him an agnostic but still believes in some things that the Catholics promote - helping each other, getting along with everyone ect.
When the calendar was adopted this country was neither secular nor a democracy. We were a Christian country with a protestant monarch (I think). I can think of no good reason to abandon the calendar now it would just be confusing.
Someone probably received an equally crazy email from a non-Christian demanding that we drop the use of AD and BC.
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The last Census in 2001 as given by the ONS is that around 5.4% of the UK is religious but not Christian, with around 15.1% non-religious (I'm assuming atheists and agnostics are lumped together) and a further 7.8% declined to comment so that leaves just over 70% as nominally Christian. I think from less authoratitive surveys I've seen since the figure relating to Christians has dropped further, I rather suspect if the churches could call on anywhere near even 50% of the population as regular churchgoers they'd be ecstatic. If you measure Christianity on the numbers going to church then you're left with a very different picture indeed but that's not entirely fair, a persons religion should be between them and their god (or lack of one).
I can't profess to any strong opinions on the change of terms BC/AD and CE/BCE, it seems a little bit pointless to me but nor does it seem like a huge issue. If the lady wants to refer to the appropriate periods as BC/AD then I'm sure the lecturers will still understand it.
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I was raised as a catholic, went to church and was baptised and all that.. soooo amd i not a catholic?
I just dont think god exists anymore due to the **** that goes on in the world.
Catholics arent Christians... hence the seperate names.
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Good grief, make your mind up. Half the time the collective wit of OCUK moans if Christians don't progressively reassess the scriptures, and then the other half of the time you get this sort of gibberish.
Because pretty fundamental to being part of the Catholic faith is the believe in God and Christ. If you don't believe in them any more then you aren't really Catholic.
Then you aren't really Catholic anymore. Though the Church probably still counts you as one.
Really, Catholics are Christians. While not all Christians are Catholic, all Catholics are Christians.
Catholics are Christians, but they hold some beliefs that are at best different and at worst heretical.
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Catholics are very definitely Christians, it's a subset of Christianity. It'd be like saying that a carrot isn't a vegetable just because it's got another name aside from just "vegetable".
//edit to the two above, bah, beaten trying to think up a suitable analogy.
Even more silly in the case of Catholicism though as it is the religion that almost all modern versions of Christianity have derived from.