tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post8554114972818484566..comments2024-03-22T06:22:08.010+00:00Comments on Stephen Law: CFI event at Sunday Times Oxford Literary FestivalStephen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167317543994731177noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-54362400307510331122008-12-21T18:32:00.000+00:002008-12-21T18:32:00.000+00:00I myself would welcome a return of the Test Acts.I myself would welcome a return of the Test Acts.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-44406608988337707392008-12-20T15:44:00.000+00:002008-12-20T15:44:00.000+00:00Should we go back to religious tests for students ...Should we go back to religious tests for students to study at Oxford and Cambridge?<BR/><BR/>Or did Christian values meant that it was those freedom-loving Christians who campaigned against those horrible secular pagans who were imposing religious tests on students for Oxbridge?<BR/><BR/>And, freedom-loving Christians worked for years against the creeping secularization of Parliament, where secularists had introduced religious tests for people who wanted to be Members of Parliament.<BR/><BR/>Hoorah for freedom-loving Christians who destroyed all these religious tests and restriction that secularists had imposed on British life!Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-55659413188172971922008-12-20T05:40:00.000+00:002008-12-20T05:40:00.000+00:00Sounds interesting. I hope you will make the point...Sounds interesting. I hope you will make the point that not just Christianity, but any religion, is socially divisive - not cohesive. Each sect strives to proclaim its 'correctness' and impose this on everyone else. <BR/><BR/>If you look at the 16th and 17th centuries - from the Reformation to the Civil Wars - religious disputes played a thoroughly malign part in setting people against one another. They squabbled endlessly about their respective concepts of God and the proper way to worship Him, with endless persecutions, killings, and finally civil war.<BR/><BR/>What was it all about? practically everything these people believed was in fact nonsense.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.com