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| Thread ID: 29481 | 2003-01-22 03:07:00 | OT: Swearing | Lohsing (219) | Press F1 |
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| 115897 | 2003-01-22 21:12:00 | In a democracy, yes, the majority rules, but it's the minority that spoils it for the majority agent wonders if he's now taken croziers side accidentally |
agent (30) | ||
| 115898 | 2003-01-22 21:20:00 | > Thats being picky, he was making a point. And if you > want to get technical, If New Zealand has a majority > of Christians as you said, it does make us a > Christian country. The majority rules I do believe. As of 1996 (and the Statistics dept agrees that since then "Fewer people are identifying with the major Christian denominations, while more people are identifying with the major non-Christian religions"), 1,738,428 people identified with being Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist - while 1,879,878 people identified with other or no religion (including Buddhist, Hindu, Jedi etc). Not much of a majority, really. I'm not on either side of the argument, just stating the facts, BTW. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 115899 | 2003-01-22 21:27:00 | hey this isn't a thread about religions, its about swearing! :-) If you want a religious debate, well thats a whole different thread. And no one think of starting a political debate either! lol :-) |
roofus (483) | ||
| 115900 | 2003-01-22 21:33:00 | > Instead of saying New Zealand is a Christian country, > I'd say the majority (and it may not be big) of > people in New Zealand are Christians. That doesn't > make NZ a Christian country. > You really that the majority of poeple in New Zealand are Christians?? According to the 1996 Census at: www.stats.govt.nz 1,338,384 people have Other response including no religion out of 3,618,303 total. Compared to the rest of the religions on the chart, Then Christians DEFINATELY are NOT the majority. |
Dragonslayer (512) | ||
| 115901 | 2003-01-22 21:36:00 | Ooooooh! Politics! This could turn out to be the most interesting thread in a while... :) Well, how about I start... Bill English is a country boy, and that's where he should stay. National has traditionally appealed more to people who live in rural areas, and Labour to "city-folk". Now, we could get into why politicians are always ugly, but there's no valid argument for why they are... :p |
agent (30) | ||
| 115902 | 2003-01-22 21:37:00 | Is it just me, or has my OT thread been hijacked by religion and politics?? :( ;) Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 115903 | 2003-01-22 21:59:00 | >1,338,384 people have Other response including no religion out of 3,618,303 total. >Compared to the rest of the religions on the chart, Then Christians DEFINATELY are NOT the majority. If you add up all the Christian denominations featured in that census you come to arounf 1.9 million. Then Christians DEFINATELY are NOT the majority. |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 115904 | 2003-01-22 22:00:00 | I've just read this thread and the 'Backing up my game' thread, and I've started to wonder what they are putting in the water in NZ nowadays? Pollly from The Netherlands (Het land waar alles mag!) |
Pollly (1416) | ||
| 115905 | 2003-01-22 22:07:00 | > I've just read this thread and the 'Backing up my > game' thread, and I've started to wonder what they > are putting in the water in NZ nowadays? > Its not the water - Its the high Radiation level monitors... ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 115906 | 2003-01-22 22:15:00 | Every thing is going to offend some person somewhere. Replacing words with f*** or **** does not do anything in 90% of the times I can pick out what the word was without trying. There is never going to be a list of words everyone aggrees to being allowed/disallowed. Then someone can still probably say odpierdol sie huju bo ci zapierdole . [pre]hopes no ones polish[/i] |
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