Thread: European Court Fines Italy for Classroom Display of the Crucifix

Axis Mundi wrote: TR1985 wrote: Axis Mundi wrote: TR1985 wrote: zonnebloem wrote: TR1985 schreef: Interesting. So you don't think Italians are fit to govern themselves? Do you have a problem with nations participating in supranational organisations and the consequences thereof? Yes. I don't like it when decisions are taken away from the people. Perhaps a better question would be... Do you ahve a roblem with a majority forcing their...

The Greek Orthodox Church is urging Christians across Europe to unite in an appeal against a ban on crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled last week that the presence of crucifixes violated a child's right to freedom of religion. Greece's Orthodox Church fears the Italian case will set a precedent. It has called an emergency Holy Synod meeting for next week to devise an action plan....

Are all Irishmen drunk when posting?

TR1985 wrote: European Snob wrote: TR1985 wrote: European Snob wrote: TR1985 wrote: I might add that language is one of most important markers of nation. South America being the major exception to this. Switzerland? Belgium? Luxembourg? I qualified it with major. I'm not going to and list every independent nation that shares its language. What makes the three countries I mentioned different from South America is the fact that they have...

George---no agree but it's different in Ireland well in the northern 6 counties which britian has stolen However Catholics go to their own schools---which we built,and no f**ker is going to deprive us of 1200 years of holocaust and genocide--never ever again,but it's not just religion its the whole ethos,history,and our beautiful celtic culture Protestants go to state schools--well good luck to them...ON LAND STOLEN FROM THE NATIVE...

European Snob wrote: The Greek Orthodox Church is urging Christians across Europe to unite in an appeal against a ban on crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled last week that the presence of crucifixes violated a child's right to freedom of religion. Greece's Orthodox Church fears the Italian case will set a precedent. It has called an emergency Holy Synod meeting for next week to...

Yes, a nation is certainly much more than its language. Switzerland prides itself in the very fact that it has 4 official languages (Schwitze-Deutsch, Francois, Italian, and Romansch..) Last edited on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 08:29 pm by Mazel Schlimazel

As usual, it takes a Marxist to provide the clarifying structure with which to understand the social forces in conflict in the Italian case: Jurgens Habermas' concept of the public sphere as an evolving construct of bourgeois democracy. The Frankfort School, of which Habermas is an exponent, is one of the several branches of social science based on painstaking elaboration of principles to be found in the thinking of Karl Marx. Marxism,...

What? How about when slavery was legal? How about when women could not only not vote - but it was legal for their husbands (in most countries) to beat them? How about when children could be worked as virtual slaves? How about in WW1 when about 17 million people were killed? Or WW2 when about 40 million people were killed (that's about 20,000 per DAY)?   I would say that the world has - all things considered - never been...

zonnebloem wrote: Voted4Reagan schreef: andytown wrote: Hi Zonne--if we Irish want you Dutch to neb in--we'll give you a call so--End of discussion. Zonne...Feel free to put in your 2cents (or guilders)  Andy is in a mood today.. lol That would be a lot of inflation (the old Dutch Guilder had 100 cents or 20 nickels or ten dimes or four quarters). I have to confess I do miss the quarters. Why couldn't the Euro have any...