@TheGhostSleepi1 For several hundred years the state disapproved of Catholics who adhered to the faith of their ancestors.
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T J Guile
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T J Guile
@TimGuile
Writer/speaker on English church history. Articles/lectures available: https://t.co/do0fNyvrrx
Oxfordshire انضم Temmuz 2011
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"Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value"
Why do people keep saying that this kind of tolerance is a British value, particularly for religion? Has nobody read British history? Britain has notoriously long been a place of religious intolerance.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
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St Alban's, named after Saint Alban
Bury St Edmunds, named after King Edmund
Alice Town, named after Princess Alice
Dudley, named after the Saxon Dudda
Port Talbot, named after the Talbot family
Helen's Bay, named after Lady Dufferin
I can go on
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Crass, unimaginative and, in the case of “Seacole”, desperate. English towns are not named after historical figures - this isn’t America.
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@nonregemesse Only the Catholic or Orthodox Church creates saints. Are you a member of either church by the way?
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The church should canonise Alfred and he should be our patron saint
Widmerpool Appreciation Society@AtticumFloreat
Who should be England's Patron Saint?
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@TimGuile @MichaelPTKelly So what? There was an Archbishop of Canterbury before 1534 and Anglicanism.
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Oh, dear - history lesson needed here. “The first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the entire 1,400-year history of the job” - Anglicanism has only been a thing for 500 years.
Sky News@SkyNews
First female Archbishop of Canterbury to be enthroned in 'unimaginable' moment Read more 🔗 trib.al/IP36QzX
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@SwisherYard @MichaelPTKelly Yes, they were all Catholics as was Cardinal Pole in the 1550s. It’s a very different thing. If it were not, the 40 martyrs of E&W would have died in vain and Anglicans would be Catholic today. Ergo, they are different churches with different loyalties and authorities.
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St George was born in Slough, his favourite song was Three Lions, he would only ever drink draught beer, he never missed a QPR game and hated the Welsh flag.
Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola@Frances_Coppola
St George was a Palestinian who never set foot in England.
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@Frances_Coppola One sometimes wonders what some folk ever learned at school?
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Dressing like that he probably gets attacked by lots of dogs.
Oli London@OliLondonTV
UK Green Party activist demonstrates how he uses a wooden spoon to put leaflets through doors because he is scared of being bitten by dogs.
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@MichaelPTKelly Why did you choose to ignore the time before Anglicanism?
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@MichaelPTKelly Sure… but there were Archbishops of Canterbury for the millennium before Anglicanism !
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The Lib Dem manifesto includes a commitment to "enforcing safe access zones around abortion clinics and hospitals" - ie the zones that ban prayer in a public place.
None of this conversation makes sense. It's not about philosophical consistency, it's about culture war.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
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I wonder if @MichealMartinTD has watched the BBC documentary 'A World Without Down Syndrome'? (And no, in that world it hasn't been cured. It's eugenics).
Government of Ireland@GovIE
Today is World Down Syndrome Day (21/3). The date symbolises the 3 copies of chromosome 21 unique to people with Down Syndrome. The day was created to celebrate people with Down syndrome and to make sure they have the same freedoms and opportunities as everybody else.
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And yet Ed Davey supports Christians being arrested for praying *silently* in public places.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
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@Baroness_Nichol I attend Sunday worship in CofE. In the churches around me in Leeds. The usual congregations in my area number 8-12, none have children or families, over 90% of attendees are 70+.
Flourishing? I think not.
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CofE is actually flourishing - loads try to bring it down but since the Church is rightly always on its knees the worshipping prayers win through.
The Economist@TheEconomist
The Church of England is already under severe strain. Some of the Anglicans Dame Sarah Mullally now leads do not believe it can be headed by a woman economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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Crass, unimaginative and, in the case of “Seacole”, desperate. English towns are not named after historical figures - this isn’t America.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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@CharlotteCGill @jemmm85517813 Women need healthcare.
Adoption is not healthcare.
Abortion is healthcare.
Simple.
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I don’t really get how we ended up decriminalising abortion up to birth. It seems to have come out of nowhere and is very sad. It actually reminds me of reading about Sparta or Chinese girls left to die. Call me old fashioned but what about letting people adopt the babies?
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The collapse of the Prostant/Roman divide and its replacement with undifferentiated cultural Christianity in the UK is a very obvious sign of the Americanisation of UK discourse.
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@BruvverEccles It’s been predicted for a while. Return to 1850 Diocese of Beverley ie. most of Yorkshire.
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This is bonkers. How does Leo expect +Stock to look after the whole of Yorkshire (3 dioceses)?
Catholic Church@catholicEW
Following the resignation of the Right Reverend Ralph Heskett as Bishop of Hallam, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Marcus Stock as the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Hallam. This appointment is in addition to his office as Bishop of Leeds and additional responsibilities as the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Middlesbrough. “I feel very humbled by the trust which His Holiness has placed in me with these appointments,” said Bishop Stock. “The Holy Father has requested that I begin a consultation with the clergy, religious and lay faithful of the Diocese of Hallam about a possible reunification with the Diocese of Leeds, from part of which Hallam was created in May 1980." cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-appoi…
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