KingsGambit
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Posted - 2008.09.09 09:21:00 -
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If the BNP or similar ever came to power, I'd envisage a lot of sweeping changes. Foreigners would be rounded up, land seized and so on. I'd don my beret then, and probably a cool nickname like "The Jackal" or "The Shepherd" or some such, and be one of the resistance.
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KingsGambit
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Posted - 2008.09.10 11:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Sergeant Spot
In a key way, I think of Judism/Christianity much as I think of western Democracy. Both are ancient....Both are currently "almost" NOTHING like they started off as.
This is not true at all. Though I cannot speak for Christianity, Judaism is very much unchanged. Jews around the world have practised the same way for centuries, even in remote communities without any outside influences whatsoever. The holy book is read in old Hebrew, not lost to translation (except possibly I read somewhere any 'original' would have likely been in Aramaic). Though the religion itself hasn't changed, the world has. Regardless of politics, political correctness, etc, technology has changed, geography has changed, our diets, professions, attitudes, etc. The old religion has had to update to a degree....deciding how for example, the rules of the Sabbath apply to Televisions, cars and the Internet, or Kashrut in a world of fast- and mass-produced food, additives, etc.
And although 21st Century views and norms are accepted by us as people, especially those of us raised liberally in Western societies, the laws of the religion are unchanged (eg. homosexuality, the recenetly deceased, feminine cleanliness, the Sabbath etc). What you tend to find though, is that there are many people who are very religious (practising) who abide all the rules and the secular, non-practising ones, same with all religions.
With Christianity, you have hundreds of off shoots, many of which have contrasting beliefs to each other. See the differences between Catholicism, Anglicans, Mormons, the Amish, Jehova's Witnesses, 7th Day Adventists and so on. They all hold such varied views on marriage, divorce, the holy days, homosexuality, etc. Add in the Pagan influence (the significance of the Winter/Spring festivals f.ex) and the varied accounts in the gospels, translations over the years and so on, you have a religion very much open to interpretation, evolution and whim.
I totally realise there was no offence or bias in your post, kudos to you. But I wanted to correct the "almost nothing like they started off as" bit, at least relating to Judaism. In this case it would be more accurate to say it's "almost just how it begun". 
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