Sunday, December 26, 2010
Man the barricades
Before you religious types out there fuelled on mulled wine and evensong, get all warm and fuzzy over Christmas, here's an interesting survey, (page 70) for the first time (at least that I can recall) England is a majority "non-religious" country, 50.7% having "no religion" and 20% Church of England. Of course this is just one survey and is probably exceptional, but hey, no raping and pillaging so far... although there was that thing on radio 4 by the Pope that was pretty offensive.
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There's an interesting quasi-pagan festival/event in Cornwall each Christmas which gets back to the real meaning of Christmas - the reaching of the mid point of the darkness. It has only recently been resurrected.
CB, getting to the half way point of Winter seems as good a reason as any to have a piss up; not sure why people need the made up stuff at all?
Mind you that's a very Northern Hemisphere perspective..
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