> While having a "strong Christian bias" may be true of a great many things >> in the USA. The norm in the UK (and the rest of Europe, to my knowledge) is >> for organisations to be free from any religious affiliation, this is also >> true of the Scouts.n >> >
> I don't know how generic your "organisations" is, anyway in Italy Scouts > are strongly a catholic organisation. Right, and the proximity of the Pope doesn't in any way influence this... > >> If anything, being openly Christian is the surest way to open yourself to >> suspicions of child abuse... >> > > Well, sure this statement is christianophoby... and FUD. Curious this > originated from another consideration about tolerance and phobia :-) It's fact that many "bible bashers" in the UK are seen with some suspicion nowadays; Catholics are especially vulnerable to such stereotypes following the heavily publicised instances of child abuse. I'm not condoning or making any value judgement of such stereotypes here, simply stating my observations. It also didn't help the reputation of christianity by having Tony Blair associate himself with the religion so strongly (not that he's guilty of child abuse, unless you consider him to have abused them all by way of the education system). -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
