LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Can’t recall that many re Islam on here
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[Misc] Why Christianity needs to give its head a wobble
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armchairclubber
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It may be helpful if you could distinguish between 'bad about Muslims' and 'Islamaphobic' to make things more clear.
They are obviously not the same, and the same needs to be considered for each faith.
That many?
LamieRobertson
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It was an observation….muslims/Islam yes….i think it’s pretty clear that there arent many comments on that faith on NSC ….seems pretty clear to me.
Stato
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Seems silly that they didn't pre-book a room. Christmas is always busy.
Yeah what?
You are replying (one assumes, you don't use the reply function) to someone mocking your comment that there is nothing anti-Islam on the internet.
A stroppy Christian with a persecution complex.
(For purposes of disclosure I regard religion as the Valium of the masses, and consider that none of it should be promoted or denigrated, a priori, in the news media and public spaces. It should be a private matter. Like sexual preference, vegetarianism football allegiance. But of course protest against persecution on the basis of religion, race, gender, orientation and food preference is of course a different matter. I would support any protest against the persecution of Christians. Or Muslims.
But I don't like conflation of religion and culture; we have regular 'learn about Islam' stations set up in the communal space inside my uni. This is not a rally against religious persecution. I hate this. It is no more defense of a persecuted culture than 'learn about Christianity week' is defense of a persecuted culture. It is using a state funded space (university quadrant) to promote a religion. Sorry, no, f*** off.)
It was hard for Bushy to express his opinion without wandering into difficult, increasingly offensive, and ultimately borderline-illegal territory.
Such sorts eventually got bans.
Others, less fulminating, have drifted off, probably sick of the woke leftists who dominate NSC.
(a.k.a. cultural evolution on a well-curated social media site, possibly Darwinian ).
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Lol debatable ….anyway I’m out of here it was a mistake to bother reading a few of the posts…..i enjoyed the time when me and my mates in the sixth form used to talk about politics and religion etc …a lot of the time we had different views ..but never chucked insults at each other and always left the pub the best of friends (yes we were drinking illegally)
ta ta thread on ignore
Ricky Gervais, great comedy writer, ok actor, terrible stand-up comedian, guilty of continually preaching about stuff he obviously has zero knowledge or understanding.
There are places to go for learning theology or spirituality but a celebrity atheist is the last place to go.
armchairclubber
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I have some observations of my own, hopefully you can clarify.
There have been Islamaphobic comments on NSC though haven't there? And one of which I recall you liked? ('evil bitch' comment re. Faiza Shaheen ...please correct me if you think I am wrong)
I would hope that it/they have been long deleted, though I don't recall any sanction being made or post removed at the time.
It could also be a reason why there are not many comments 'on that faith' on NSC.
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Stato
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I'd question 'great comedy writer'
'The Office' (Co Written with Stephen Merchant) Yes fair enough, great;
'Extras' (Also with Merchant) - Patchy;
Life's Too Short' (with Merchant) - Bad;
'Cemetry Junction' (with Merchant) - Dull;
'The Invention of Lying' (with Matthew Robinson) - A bit too preachy and self absorbed; (ironically)
'Derek' - Absoluely abysmal;
'After Life' - Actually, and this didn't seem possible, somehow worse than Derek.
Every other Brent Project since 'The Office' - Terrible.
I'd agree that he is a terrible stand up. He only started doing it after he was famous and has never had to deal with an audience that hadn't paid through the nose to see the famous man. Oh, maybe once, in front of a friendly audience, he was asked to fill and reverted to doing bits of his sit coms and continuously asking how much longer?. From about 3 minutes:
Could you see any other arena comic floundering so spectacularly? I'm not talking Robin Williams, Richard Pryor or Billy Connolly, but the likes of Micky Flanagan, John Bishop, Bill Bailey, Russell Howard, even Jack Whitehall. None of them would have had a moment's worry because they've all been working stand ups. You'd probably have had to drag them off. They've all compered, they've all had to deal with the unexpected, they've all been required to busk it. Gervais never has. He's always just been playing the role of a stand up comedian in his own one man shows.
Rant over. Back to religion (which I wouldn't listen to his trite and self conglatulatory opinions about either).
Stato
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Well Johnny Speight wrote it, but she delivered it beautifully.© The Late Great Dandy Nichols