Britain a third world country

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

In the interview in the current expenditure of the FOCUS Kasper had on the question, why so many British expressed displeasure over the Pope, answered: „England is today a secularized, pluralistisches country. If you land at the airport Heathrow, sometimes think, you would have landed in a country of the third world.” Kasper affirmed in addition the question, whether Christians in the kingdom were disadvantaged, and described: “Particularly in England an aggressive new atheism is common. If you carry a cross for instance at British Airways, you are disadvantaged. We want to show however our faith publicly. Everyone, which knows England, knows that there is also a large Christian tradition there. Europe would not be any more Europes, if it could not retain this tradition.”



You know what...he has a point.

I am pleased that we are are a secularist pluralist country though.

Apologies for babelfish translation btw.

 

[Biscuit]

By all means slag of the pedo hiding, anti condom, dress-wearing bellend, but can we lay of the German/Nazi stuff please? It's not on.

 

[borat]

The Pope's visit is going to cost 10 million pounds of tax payers money. The Vatican are rolling in it. If the Pope has to visit the Vatican should pay for it.

 

[Jim D]

If we are a Third World country does that mean we get lots of aid from The US, Russia and China (and don't need to give any out)? I'd go along with that. Where can we get added to the list?

 

[Arthritic Toe]

According to the BBC, the cardinal's comparisons between England and a third world country are based on the "aggressive atheism"

Don't get that at all. Third world countries tend to be far more religious than developed ones.

Refering to the UK as a country with an aggressive atheism, I would regard as a compliment (taking 'aggressive' to mean highly active, rather than any negative connotation).

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Baton then.

Crikey! What's the Constabulary's weapon of choice down Essex way then Mr B: white or granary?

ps I assume our local Officers wouldn't be seen dead with anything other than an organic, multi-seeded wholemeal job (although they might possibly get tooled-up with Ciabattas for EDL gatherings & the like).

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Crikey! What's the Constabulary's weapon of choice down Essex way then Mr B: white or granary?

ps I assume our local Officers wouldn't be seen dead with anything other than an organic, multi-seeded wholemeal job (although they might possibly get tooled-up with Ciabattas for EDL gatherings & the like).

They don't eat ciabatta or granary in Essex TT.

Its jellied eels,whelks and pie and mash or nothing.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

They don't eat ciabatta or granary in Essex TT.

Its jellied eels,whelks and pie and mash or nothing.

That doesn't surprise me in the least tbh hon. Mind you, I wouldn't fancy comin' up against a bunch of mashed-up coppers bombarding me with a salvo of whelks & pies. A jellied eel round the bonce is gonna hurt too, innit...

 

[glasfryn]

Maybe he was just having a dig at the fact most LHR employees appear to be from the Indian Subcontinent?

Who knows what he was thinking......

who bloody well cares
having been bought up catholic I find the whole church hypocritical,they are homophobic,anti-semitic, full of paedophiles, and now we have a Cardinal that is so obviously racist who will not be coming to Britain after his comments because he has gout (piss artist then,drinking to much of the holy wine no doubt) is it any wonder that more and more people are becoming non believers and swapping religions or becoming lapsed catholics of which I am on.
Lapsed they call it quite honestly I don't want anything to do with a church that has such views.

Father Lagan and Father Tinker would be turning in their graves

 

[Pavilionaire]

So we get that he's racist and intolerant of any religion other than the "true" one but where does he stand on child abuse?

I wouldn't go there. The Cardinal's already in one tight hole re his "third world" jibe...

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Bit of devil's advocate here: there are, according to the last census, approximately 4 million Catholics in the UK, which out of the population of about 60 million, makes it a minority religion by anybody's standards, with absolutely no offence intended to those Catholics on here or anywhere else.

The leader of the Catholic church turns up in the UK and announces his intention to hold masses or whatever and various major public appearances.

So, knowing how very vociferous the likes of the English Defence League are against foreigners- particularly those of a different religious persuasion to the UK majority- coming here to preach their holy messages, I presume they will be holding marches and rallies in protest at the Pope's arrival?

Or do those rules only apply when the protagonists are darker skinned and worship a god called Allah?

One of the common things about third world countries is that they on the whole have the same attitude to foreigners as people like the EDF do.

So if you were met by people like that you might think you're entering a third world country.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

That would be an ecumenical matter.

 

[manilaseagull]

Let's face it, religion is a load of bollocks at the end of the day.

Agree 100% worshiping a fantasy figure.....

Today the BBC said the Vicar visiting Scotland is God's representative on Earth..

HOW DO THEY KNOW THAT??

 

[Biscuit]

Agree 100% worshiping a fantasy figure.....

Today the BBC said the Vicar visiting Scotland is God's representative on Earth..

HOW DO THEY KNOW THAT??

He's self styled.

I Gods official New Media guru on earth.

 

[manilaseagull]

OK great......can I be God's official beer taster on Earth? ( oh and taster of asian girls....aged over 18 of course I'm not a priest!!)

 

[alan partridge]

He says that when you land in Heathrow it is like landing in a Third World Country

oh right, I see what he means now. Heathrow is f***ing horrible. Seen that carpet?

 

[Biscuit]

OK great......can I be God's official beer taster on Earth? ( oh and taster of asian girls....aged over 18 of course I'm not a priest!!)

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Interesting that the opening post on this thread was knee-deep in grammatical errors and the second, as did many others, saw fit to make a big thing of the fact that the man is a German.

Britain is not a third world country but a combination of ignorance and a frighteningly widespread but misplaced sense of superiority may yet make us one.

 

[Biscuit]

Interesting that the opening post on this thread was knee-deep in grammatical errors and the second, as did many others, saw fit to make a big thing of the fact that the man is a German.

Britain is not a third world country but a combination of ignorance and a frighteningly widespread but misplaced sense of superiority may yet make us one.

 

[Scampi]

Interesting that the opening post on this thread was knee-deep in grammatical errors and the second, as did many others, saw fit to make a big thing of the fact that the man is a German.

Are you American, cos you don't seem to have understood the iorny implicit in many of the posts