Comments on: The LibDems for a secular state… http://www.reason42.com/2006/05/23/the-libdems-for-a-secular-state/ The more I know the less I understand - Tao Le Ching Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:52:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: reason42 http://www.reason42.com/2006/05/23/the-libdems-for-a-secular-state/comment-page-1/#comment-119 reason42 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:00:33 +0000 http://www.reason42.com/?p=7#comment-119 Found out ages ago that the Lib Dems do have seperation of Church and State in their manifesto. Found out ages ago that the Lib Dems do have seperation of Church and State in their manifesto.

]]> By: reason42 http://www.reason42.com/2006/05/23/the-libdems-for-a-secular-state/comment-page-1/#comment-21 reason42 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:05:46 +0000 http://www.reason42.com/?p=7#comment-21 Yes, like you Joe i\'m uncomfortable with calling liberalism a faith. Still, the argument he puts forwards is very interesting. I wonder if the Lib Dems have actually considered this.  Well, I will find out by writing to them. I shall report back soon. Yes, like you Joe i\’m uncomfortable with calling liberalism a faith. Still, the argument he puts forwards is very interesting. I wonder if the Lib Dems have actually considered this.  Well, I will find out by writing to them. I shall report back soon.

]]> By: reason42 http://www.reason42.com/2006/05/23/the-libdems-for-a-secular-state/comment-page-1/#comment-20 reason42 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:03:17 +0000 http://www.reason42.com/?p=7#comment-20 Damn, I need a read my own stuff.  I wrote <strong>defiantly</strong> instead of <strong>definitely</strong>. My bad.  Edit made. Damn, I need a read my own stuff.  I wrote defiantly instead of definitely. My bad.  Edit made.

]]> By: Joe Otten http://www.reason42.com/2006/05/23/the-libdems-for-a-secular-state/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Joe Otten Wed, 24 May 2006 09:36:55 +0000 http://www.reason42.com/?p=7#comment-10 According to his profile Theo is a postmodern theologian. Either would justify utterly abstruse incomprehensibility on his part. Yet what he says is quite comprehensible and reasonable. And then he says: "What do we have in common as a nation? Not a religion, but a secular faith: secular liberalism. A party that dares to say this, and so to provoke the wrath of various clerics..." Oh dear. I should think that calling liberalism a faith is precisely the sort of thing that would make it appeal only to agnostics, and utterly horrify believers and atheists alike. According to his profile Theo is a postmodern theologian. Either would justify utterly abstruse incomprehensibility on his part. Yet what he says is quite comprehensible and reasonable.

And then he says:

“What do we have in common as a nation? Not a religion, but a secular faith: secular liberalism. A party that dares to say this, and so to provoke the wrath of various clerics…”

Oh dear. I should think that calling liberalism a faith is precisely the sort of thing that would make it appeal only to agnostics, and utterly horrify believers and atheists alike.

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