Sergei Gotsmanov

If there are a thousand born again Christians who all see somebody drop a tenner and a thousand people selected randomly from the street who all see somebody drop a tenner, which group would return the most tenners. You have a monkey to have a bet at even money - now where is your money going?

I did not say they would not return the money, I said the Christian was more likely to.

I am not asking which is better.

They were obviously not practising Catholics. It surprises me that you believe that they were men driven by a strong faith. Its a struggle to engage somebody who is so bigoted against Christianity that thye cannot recognise that it can be a great force for good.

Obviously not.

They were hardly practising their faith were they! That is how I define somebody who has a religious faith. Makes sense to me. Sorry you struggle to understand the point.

In today's Britain if you drop a tenner a god fearing person would be more likley to return it to you than somebody is not.

So which God did the Nazi's worship then? Very puzzled how you came to that conclusion. I merely stated that religious teachings themselves do not cause human violence but create the groups that exercise their human instinct to fight. So you think that Martin McGuinness and Mad Dog Adair were devout followers? There are mainstream interpretations and more radical interpretations. The problems come when radical intepretations become more mainstream.

On an every day 2011 level that is a fair statement.

The Nazi's were not religious they tolerated christianity. Religion creates the tribes, that generate the enemies, that allows the human instinct to fight come out. It is the interpretation of the religion that causes the problems.

So are you more likely to be mugged by somebody who is deeply religious or somebody who is not?

Well I am delighted that there is more accountability than I thought. I think politics should be done out of duty and not as a career. I like people to have lived in the real world before they enter politics. All sides are now guilty of this.

Generally in my opinion people who answer to a God are more likely to have better morale compass than those that answer to other men. That is a very general statement though.

Always the first to embrace debate.

Thats why the National socialists and the Communists butchered so many people in the thirties and forties. Not forgetting Pol Pott. They had nobody to answer to but themselves and the State.

BTF I think it would in fact be you that would be the muppet if after an hour's interview you could not identify somebody's political leanings. Of course I would. I dislike anybody who is overpaid in the public sector. They have it easy.

BTF what would your hunch be who they appoint? Why should we pay the PM more. He should run the country out of duty. Then go off and make million on the back of it like the rest of them.

and you expect them to appoint a telegraph reader or a Guardian reader like themselves.

He was appointed by labour run council.

Withdrawn. Too petty.

BTF do you think that MJ was right. The whole episode in the Ukraine was quite unsavoury.

Comrade Verbal speaks, but struggles to see the irony in that he is in fact talking about himself. The first to label people on here racist, sexist or homophobic. His delivery oozing self righteousness and often aggressive in tone. As for Elton, it is a quite legitamate view to feel very uneasy when two old men, who certainly would be allowed to adopt, fail try to bring back a baby from the Ukraine on a whim so opt to go to the States and buy one.

but those who want to wear it should be allowed to even if it is their tribal cutural practice. It is a bizarre alliance of feminists and right wingers that demand the Burkha be banned. It should only be an issue if it does involve the workplace.

It is their religion though and it is a basic right to practice it. I am sure there are a minority of women that are made to wear the Burkha but that should not prevent those that choose to freely. Is it legal to make somebody wear a Burkha?

He is probably trying to get a promotion to Heathrow