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Last Updated: 03/12/2005 13:14:16
I'm driven with a mission from God.
God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq... And I did.
And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me: go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I'm gonna do it.
George W Bush
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In 325 AD Emperor Constantine gathered together a group of Bishops in
order to create a single and unifying Christian statement which would bring together
all the various splinters and versions of the faith who had been disagreeing
with each other since the very dawn of Christianity.
Many theories and ideas about what actually happened at the Council of Nicea can be
found all over the internet but almost certainly the gospels and stories that
Constantine and the Bishops thought should be contained in the bible were decided
upon during those meetings.
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This all took place one thousand six hundred years ago and since that merry day the earth
has seen changes, advancements and ideas that would have been impossible for people
living in that time to comprehend or even imagine.
The entire Christian faith is based on this bible, a book, a collection of rumour,
hearsay and exaggeration not written by the hand of God himself but compiled and
decided upon by human beings with their own personal morals, flaws and agendas.
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In courts of law people swear on the Bible everyday but if that same bible was to be
put forward as evidence in a case that was attempting to prove that Christianity
was the one true religion, it would be dismissed completely because it's not a
book based upon fact but a book based upon faith.
Now faith is a difficult thing to break down, people pull the faith card likes it's
some kind of impenetrable defence that not even the most damning evidence against it can dent.
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In a roundabout way faith gives you an excuse to be ignorant, to carry on the
illusion that you have constructed because you are unwilling or unable to face
evidence that contradicts your beliefs.
Christianity itself is full of the most amazing contradictions that are twisted
or more usually glossed over by the followers of the religion or justified with
the dreaded words, But he gave us free will.
Let's pretend for a minute that is even remotely the case and that all the poverty,
starvation, death, plague and war is of our own doing, it still doesn't quite
explain the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis and
meteorites falling from the sky that have wiped out human beings since the
creation of the earth itself. How do Christians justify these events?
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Opinions - Mark Pollard's Response to a Couple of Hull's Blinkered Critics
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Well, Channel 4's rubbish programme the other week (I can't even be arsed to mention it's name any more) certainly resulted in the odd fucknut blowing the cobwebs from their PC keyboard and jumping onto that bitter little bandwagon, didn't it?
You want to know what's the worst thing about Hull? It's that, like any other city, it has it's fair share of these types -
the sort of
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Opinions - MP Diana Johnson Uninspired by Hull By David Sloan
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Hull MP Diana Johnson thinks prisoners should be allowed to vote. If she went on the streets of Hull and asked the people what they thought I'm sure she would get a very different answer.
She was inspired, she says by a former inmate John Hirst, who served a life sentence for manslaughter.
He mounted a legal challenge saying depriving him of his vote was against his human rights.
He is now free,
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Opinions - Christmas Shopping Opportunity By Mr. A.N. Gry
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Well Christmas will soon be upon us and everyone is busy getting their Christmas shopping lists ready of what to get their kids or even themselves, but unfortunately at some other poor bugger's expense!
Yes, the Christmas bookings for stereos and PCs and play stations etc., etc, etc. are being
taken and the opportunists are a knocking at our backdoors and windows
(good job we have 3 monsters
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Opinions - Amused or not, a muse on Yo-Yo By Michelle Dee
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Whilst all you scenesters were at Leeds watching the likes of The Killers, The Pixies and
The Paddingtons...
life continued back home. Welly on Saturday was a little emptier than previous weeks, but that just
meant there was more room to move and it wasn't quite so hot.
DJ Priya had a difficult job tonight due to the lack of so many regulars
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Opinions - Did Hitler See the Good in Hull ? by David Sloan
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Hull has been voted Worst City in the UK to live, on a recent Channel 4 TV programme.
This of course was not always the case. Before the war Hull was a prosperous important sea port.
Unfortunately the last politician to recognise this was Adolf Hitler.
The Germans saw Hull as a major port and manufacturing centre.
That's why Hull was the second
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Opinions - Bringing Me Down By Steve Stewart
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Why do others bring people down all the time? Can people not leave other people alone, or is it because some of us want to get on with our lives but others won't let us?
I wrote this and would like to share it with you who read it. At the moment I am feeling that it's never going to end. Maybe, hopefully this may help some of
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Opinions - Reply to Tom Hawcroft By Lee Cassanell
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Well, you rattle a cage and you get a response.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart Mr Hawcroft for taking the time and
effort to respond.
War is indeed Hell (Yes I've seen Platoon) but when someone throws a
grenade into your Garden Party I think it's only fair to throw it back
so I will indeed respond to your response in the vain hope that you
tear yourself away from your moral
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Opinions - Letter to Tom Hawcroft From Maurice Fairfield
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Dear Tom Hawcroft,
I only know Lee Cassanell as an able though inferior versifier publishing in these
pages (although he did call me a genius recently).
Reading his vitriolic piece on the old place, I was a bit surprised by
the entertaining venom until I got myself back in the Hull mindset which
I remember well as generally being expressed in the form of open derision
for most things and
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Opinions - Regarding Tom Hawcroft's Retort to Lee Cassanell's Hull By Mark Pollard
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I'm not absolutely certain about this, but I think Tom might have been hoodwinked by a
piece of ever-so-clever, post-industrial, post-modern, post-comedy, post-post-whatever,
irony schmirony by Master Cassanell. Sorry - I'm being ironic myself now. Or am I?
Lee - I think you need to come clean about your motivations here; something that
may require a
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Opinions - Retort to Lee Cassanell's Hull By Tom Hawcroft
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Lee Cassanell, when you were drafting out your masterpiece entitled simply; Hull (brilliant, just brilliant),
what were you hoping to achieve?
If it was to undermine and belittle the hardworking and conscientious people in this city (of
which there are many), via the use of a series of independent non-factual rants then you may have succeeded.
I understand this is the opinions
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Opinions - Hull By Susan North
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Guess these guys never lived here in Hull and are talking through their arses.
Hull is a city full of history and warm hearted people who will open their doors to anyone genuinely needing help. Always has been for centuries.
OK, most cities have some bad points but that goes with the generations of the day as they
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Opinions - Hull - A Letter to Jon Snow Channel 4 By Maurice Fairfield - Another program knocking Hull?
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I have lived in Australia for twenty years but I was born in Hull in 1928 and have lived with patronising contempt for the place ringing in my ears all my life.
Perhaps less the town and its people in general but the working-class people who have lived with the contempt of the middle-class who lived off them and who I remember as themselves contemptible.
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Opinions - Hull By By Ted Oliver (Manager of the Spring Bank Community Centre, Hull )
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I moved to Hull with my parents in 1993 when I was just 13 years old, from a little village called Hunmanby, just near the popular holiday resort Primrose Valley.
I must admit that my first impressions of Hull were not good, but over the last 12 years I've really come to love living and working here. Hull is a very multi-cultural city and always has been - ever since the docks first opened over 500 years ago.
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