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really will try to be reformist. This sounds like a very good start:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248122,00.html
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... but so encouraging. A light that shined in darkness, but I hope that it finds comprehension!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I wonder at the talkback section! Amazing
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Cossie, I am well aware that media coverage is problematic. Inevitably, news editors will gravitate towards the dramatic and the horrific (and if necessary they will try to make it look that way). Add to that the fact that some of the news media deliberately 'colour' their coverage: only recently (i.e. within the last month) an internal investigative committee set up by the BBC itself reported that BBC coverage of events in the Middle East were "habitually slanted in an arabophile direction". Hopefully, that will now change.
I am sure that most people must be under the impression that Israelis live continuously in the threat of violence or in the eye of the storm etc. Of course, this is just not the case! I have discovered that one way you can get a more true picture of what is happening in a country is to take a look at what is covered by the online e-newspapers or other news media of that country on the Internet. (For Britain, I check Sky news online, usually about once a week - and the Guardian and the Independent. But even so, one gets the impression that British politics is about one sex scandal after another, which can hardly be the case, and that Labour lost ground in local government because Prescott had a mistress.)
The best way to get a balanced view of what is going on in a country is to visit that country and to see for yourself. In the case of Israel, believe me it's just as safe as London or Paris or New York. And you will be very welcome and you will have the vacation of a lifetime.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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