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All power to him. Just goes to show that "liberal" does not automatically go with "wishy-washy" - in fact, far from it.

I have not conducted extensive conversations with burkha wearing women or their husbands, and am not pretending to have any enormous insight in to the matter. The Muslims I know would also tend to be moderate, so I accept your point entirely. The trouble is, how do you tell where it is pressure...

I had a conversation a few years ago with a Christian and fairly political, liberal and enlightened couple in France - a protestant pastor and his wife - while they were debating the potential banning of the Burkha. He disagreed with the ban, saying that if people want to wear it, they should be...

But it didn't.... And even if it had, someone would have found a way to deal with it.

I'm trying to think of something witty to say in reply, but it's too late and I've had a hard day!

I am a practising Christian, but I will probably be dead by 2051, and I don't feel threatened by it anyway. But then I think the forecast by the OP was akin to those who thought that Westminster bridge would be six feet deep in Horse manure if horse drawn-traffic kept increasing at the same...

I disagree. Plenty of rational logical thinkers over the years have stuck with it. There is a great deal of wisdom in the teaching of all the major faiths, and wisdom is usually timeless. Try "Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself", also known as the Golden Rule. Obviously you...

One knows they are folk tales and allegories, and one tells others they are, too. There is a great deal of wisdom in there, which is why they have stood the test of time and been handed down. Re following both OT and NT stuff, the OT describes very clearly the stuff you should not eat as a...

I would imagine it would be a long time before the bible is ever revised "officially", but that doesn't stop us interpreting it in the light of today's world. I don't, for example, understand how people can be so implacably opposed to women priests/bishops, but many are. Agree there are plenty...

I accept all that, which is all the more reason why one has to use one's brain to reach sensible conclusions. It is also easy for things to be misinterpreted when they are taken out of context. "An eye for an eye", for example (very Old Testament) is often taken as justification for revenge...

Utter horse crap yourself. As a trained and qualified preacher in one of our mainstream Churches, one is trained to exercise common sense. In my training I was taught that the creation story is just that - a story. Only fairly extreme people will accept it as true. The New Testament is the...