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Hamilton Saint

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  1. So you said! Dormant as in sleeping, right?! But as Jesus said, "Get off your f***king bed and walk!"
  2. You are kidding, right?! You're telling me that all those people who answer in the census that they are "Christians" are even remotely Christian in their philosophy of life? As I said before, they're just vestigial Christians. I mean, are any of the so-called Christian churches (of whatever denomination) really Christian in character? And I mean believers in the radical, social views of the prophet Jesus Christ. Not adherents to a Church, or intermittent visitors to a church.
  3. "Dormant Christian" sounds quite positive. I would use the more negative term "vestigial". What you describe is people using the church, or Church, when it suits their need or purpose - like a cultural tradition, or a social club. Church-going, in that sense, served an important social function in the past. I didn't get married in a church because I don't believe in, or hold to, the words the priest or minister says. I don't want to be a hypocrite. Likewise, I didn't get my children baptised because I don't believe in those sacraments anymore. Again, don't want to be a hypocrite and say or promise things I don't believe in. The only time I'm in churches these days, sadly, is to attend funerals for family and friends. Many people who participate in these "religious" events don't believe in them. They do it for social reasons. They are "religious" in the most mundane and debased way. They are certainly not Christians. Paying lip-service to a tradition because it's convenient or makes you feel nice and sentimental for a few minutes does not translate into Christian belief or a true religious attitude.
  4. It is truly astonishing how ignorant and uninformed some people are on here. Some people don't seem to understand, for example, the basic notion of the separation between church and state. Or the meaning of the term "Christian". Or the difference between Old Testament and New Testament. Or the principles of the Enlightenment. If you can't define your terms, or articulate the meaning of some of these basic distinctions, don't bother arguing about them.
  5. "It's nice to be nice to the nice". M*A*S*H, Frank Burns
  6. Yes, I remember it well - May 3rd., 1966. Scoring a hat-trick, of course, in the Cup Final.
  7. Yes, that's how it happened. As you say, it's hard to understand how it is that they do not monitor what's going out, so that they would notice it immediately and then fix the problem. When I worked in radio, the feed into our headphones was always the broadcast feed, not the source feed.
  8. Woops!
  9. Back off, Mr. Condescension. He's stating a valid opinion.
  10. It sounded like reasonable opinion to me. Why do you have to be so insulting?
  11. Thanks for that!
  12. Come on, Solent - sort it out! Total silence now for the last five minutes.
  13. Would be nice to hear both sides of the conversations on Saints Player - instead of just one!
  14. Marmite
  15. There was a picture of Rod Stewart at the 2003 F.A. Cup Final on here - in the Saints' area of the crowd. Did anyone speak to him?
  16. June Tabor's version is awesome.
  17. New Leonard Cohen album - Old Ideas. Excellent. Better than the last two.
  18. Love it!
  19. Some on here think our manager is Nigel Atkins.
  20. I've got all his CDs! My favourite is Catch a Fire. Favourite track - "Concrete Jungle".
  21. And he ain't a bloomin' thicky ...
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