Comments on: The Times: Religion isn’t the sickness. It’s the cure http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/02/26/religion-isnt-the-sickness/ Not praying for (or on) you Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: TW http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/02/26/religion-isnt-the-sickness/comment-page-1/#comment-75 TW Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:19:17 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/02/26/religion-isnt-the-sickness/#comment-75 Although it shouldn't, it constantly amazes me the way some newspaper columnists constantly hark back to the "Good Old Days" and often call for a return to Victorian family values. It is comical to pick that era as an example of a time the UK held "good" social values. If they really want to check history for a time when people had what we would currently look at as a "good" society, then the pre-Christian period provides the best examples - with maybe some nod to the Celtic Christian church. Once the Roman church took over it all went down hill.... Although it shouldn’t, it constantly amazes me the way some newspaper columnists constantly hark back to the “Good Old Days” and often call for a return to Victorian family values. It is comical to pick that era as an example of a time the UK held “good” social values.

If they really want to check history for a time when people had what we would currently look at as a “good” society, then the pre-Christian period provides the best examples – with maybe some nod to the Celtic Christian church. Once the Roman church took over it all went down hill….

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