Council issues apology after forcing pub to take down rainbow pride flags (From Gazette)

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  Tolkny wrote:
  

  Tolkny wrote:
  Thanks to 321gone,
  
  That is a fascinating link, I had never made the Little Britain connection before, yet used to walk down there.
  
  That is a very informative and interesting website looking back to the time of the Olympic's bid as well.
  
  What is round comes round!
  
  There is even a Lion in this story but at Ardleigh not St Osyth!

  6079 Smith W says...
  7:33pm Thu 23 Aug 12
  
  "the 'word of God' wasn't questioned"
  
  Uhmm, possibly not questioned by very many in Europe, after Christianity was adopted as the faith of The Roman Empire in about the third century AD.
  
  However, before that, amongst the Greeks and Romans, to name just two so called civilizations, there were many God(s) and further away from Europe there were many other spiritual understandings, some aboriginal ones that have just about lasted until today>
  
  So whilst the " 'word of God' " may not have been questioned (much) within specific communities there were and still are many different understandings of what 'God' was, is or might be.
  
  It is probably helpful if those of us who think about these things do not repeat the notion that somehow the belief systems in Western Europeanised society are the most important to all the World's populations or even the most prominent every where.

  An important point, Tolkny. We all need to be careful not to be Euro-centric in approach, which ironically includes you! The mistake you've made there is to see Adam and Eve as only part of a Christian belief system, you've forgotten it is central to all Abrahamic religions, which of goes beyond Europe."
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