Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:48 am  

Standee wrote:

Agreed, a victory for bigoted homophobes.

Bigoted homophobes are, along with everyone else, entitled to freedom of expression.
The victory is for all except those who seek to suppress freedom of expression.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:53 pm  

Standee wrote:

Agreed, a victory for bigoted homophobes.

get a life

Christianophobia

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:18 pm  

No Top Lip wrote:

:lol: get a life

Christianophobia

I have no issue with Christains, true Christians that would truly live and let live, what I have a problem with are sanctamonious fundamentalists that enforce their doctrine on everyone else, people like kirkstaller, who believe they are somehow better than me, because they believe the ultimate fairy story, but not in a mans right to be a "fairy".

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:21 pm  

Standee wrote:

I have no issue with Christains, true Christians that would truly live and let live, what I have a problem with are sanctamonious fundamentalists that enforce their doctrine on everyone else, people like kirkstaller, who believe they are somehow better than me, because they believe the ultimate fairy story, but not in a mans right to be a "fairy".

There is no religion that is a satisfactory substitute for a conscience.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:25 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

There is no religion that is a satisfactory substitute for a conscience.

I wish everyone believed in that.

Unfortunately, too many, supposedly educated people, believe what they are told, and not what they think. I don't believe kirkstaller is stupid, he's just brainwashed.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:32 pm  

Standee wrote:

I wish everyone believed in that.

Unfortunately, too many, supposedly educated people, believe what they are told, and not what they think. I don't believe kirkstaller is stupid, he's just brainwashed.

I worked with a woman who was a devout catholic and also had an MA, I once commented that I couldn't believe that someone with her level of intelligence and education believed in God, to which she replied that she couldn't understand that intelligent people 'didn't' believe in God. Is it brainwashing, or just a genuine held belief.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:54 pm  

rover49 wrote:

I worked with a woman who was a devout catholic and also had an MA, I once commented that I couldn't believe that someone with her level of intelligence and education believed in God, to which she replied that she couldn't understand that intelligent people 'didn't' believe in God. Is it brainwashing, or just a genuine held belief.

But if I said I genuinely believed that my Cat was a deity and responsible for spawning all human life, would that be held as a valid belief?

Religion is a control mechanism.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:29 pm  

No Top Lip wrote:

:lol: get a life

Christianophobia

Have a read of The purple economy by Max Wallace.

See where some of your dollars are going.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:35 pm  

Cookridge_Rhino wrote:

Yes, and I'm aware that, contrary to your claims, at no point has the wife of the Holy Trinity Church vicar been the headteacher of the school.

Yep you're right, and I changed my second reply subtley to reflect that, she was the wife of a CoE vicar, I'm not saying thats how she got the job though...

Oh no.

Re: OMG - Christian wins employment tribunal : Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:06 pm  

Standee wrote:

I have no issue with Christains, true Christians that would truly live and let live,

Except that isn't a description of a 'true' Christian or indeed a description of a 'true' anyone with any modicum of belief in anything whatsoever. Nobody can truly 'live and let live'. We all draw lines in the sand.