VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1372668708|CONTENT| [blockquote]...religious or secular[/blockquote] 

Like saying apples or fruit, coffee or hot drinks, The Saturdays or music (maybe scratch the last one).

The shifting of the middle ground to one of the extremes, as casually done by Billings this morning, is typical of the current debate about religion. Let&#039;s be clear, any Christian who doesn&#039;t want Sharia Law applied to them is a paid-up secularist. There is no attempt in this country to make religion illegal, to remove voting rights from Christians, to give extra rights specifically to atheists. But it seems that for a part of the religious lobby, nothing will satisfy them except the special privelege they have had previously, the same privelege that made Catholicism illegal for centuries. Secularism is not atheism!

Apart from that, has Billings got a job with the Derbyshire Tourist Board? Well Dressing, whatever its origins, was revived (and continues) as a method of attracting visitors to small towns and villages. In almost all of the places it is now done, it dates back to, er, 1951. Its significance is limited to being a quaint, pseudo-historical custom that provides a meaningless ambience to a place. Ah, now I see the link to Christianity.|IP-ADDRESS|10.0.119.108, 217.36.222.79, 10.37.43.204|MODERATIONFLAG|