Exactly what percentage of the population is "christian"?

Knight who says Meh · 13-02-2014 10:13PM

AerynSun wrote: »

Well for my part now, I'm sorry for my general rambling inability to stick to topics generally. Hope your day improved, eventually. I had a rough day myself, and on my way home I stopped into Marks & Sparks to buy some carrots and green beans... and took a trundle around the wine department. I hardly ever buy wine, but today I needed some. And do you know what I found? Made me laugh really hard, so hard I nearly bought it, but then I thought I would never be able to actually drink it without snorting it out of my nose in a guffaw:

Think I may need to write home to the vintner and explain a few things about exporting lovely wine to Ireland, and the hazards of choosing a good name. A good name is worth a lot in these parts!

p.s. I got the Graham Beck Brut Rosé instead. Sitting here enjoying it. What percentage of this bottle is Christian, you wonder? I'm not sure. I'll make a pronouncement on that matter after the next glass.

Betcha its not a 'Fruity' wine

AerynSun · 13-02-2014 10:14PM

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

Betcha its not a 'Fruity' wine

Oh, but it IS. Not at the first sip... but keep going, those flavours kick in with irresistable force :P

alaimacerc · 14-02-2014 01:49AM

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

But there's nothing in the Creed which Catholics say at Mass

But apparently a large chunk of them aren't turning up at mass to say anything, and some of those that do, don't even believe what the Creed does say.

to say they believe contraception is wrong, Gays shouldn't have civil marriage, abortion should be illegal, divorce should be illegal, gay teachers should be fired or most of the other nonsense the Hierarchy is pushing.

Contraception's in the CCC, so that's not just "what the hierarchy is pushing". The rest isn't "doctrine" per se, much less "core" anything.

As others have said, this is rather "loop back to the original premise of the thread". While it's indeed problematic to define "Catholic" objectively, it's also problematic to uncritically accept people's subjective stream-of-consciousness thoughts on the matter, too.

gaynorvader · 14-02-2014 10:08AM

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

If 80% of the country want to call themselved Bongos, not my problem. If they think Bongodom should be the law of the land - big problem. I will argue that no, we should have a secular Republic, with equal rights for all.

Arguing with them that God told the Head Bongo that they are not real Bongos is a big waste of everyone's time.

That is what's happening, what's more we're told all Bongos believe that sex is icky and we should have to pay for special enforcers to go around stopping people from doing it and all Bongos want children taught that Bongodom is the one true way to happiness.

Trying to find out what Bongos actually believe is very important in order to justify changing these laws.

AerynSun · 14-02-2014 05:27PM

gaynorvader wrote: »

That is what's happening, what's more we're told all Bongos believe that sex is icky and we should have to pay for special enforcers to go around stopping people from doing it and all Bongos want children taught that Bongodom is the one true way to happiness.

Trying to find out what Bongos actually believe is very important in order to justify changing these laws.

Godfrey Bloom from UKIP called, he's not happy that you've appropriated his derogatory reference since the party banned him from using it. He says he's not really happy with people using it about the Vatican when it's definitely supposed to be reserved to denote African states north of the Sahara.

Exactly what percentage of the population is "christian"?

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