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In which case DST all year round is likely to make you do that more

Because it's not an either/or; government only provides to the extent that we pay in tax, and only taxes to the extent it provides (well, in theory at least)

I wish we had it all year round!

I don't 'hate' it so much as pity it; that said, I do hate fiction masquerading as truth. And I would say also that the Landmark position is full of vitriol against the Catholic and Orthodox - so I would question who's doing the 'hating' here.

Missed that - thanks. My reaction? "Oh that makes it alright then - a mother excommunicated for saving the life of her daughter and her doctor excommunicated for saving the life of his patient."

It matters to this child what the Catholic Church does to her and says about her.

Story here. One of rare circumstances where abortion is justified IMO - if nothing else because otherwise there'd be three dead children instead of two. I see the rapist hasn't been excommunicated - he's free to turn up at Mass and receice communion every Sunday but his victim isn't because she...

You would get the drugs on the NHS is you paid more taxes, is the bottom line. The question is, "are you willing to pay more taxes?" I'm not, so I can't really complain when the NHS tells me that some drugs are too expensive for it to provide them to me for free

Thanks! The NHS, as I also said, does not have a monopoly on healthcare, so the thread title is simply inaccurate: it is not the case that the government here has 'banned' the drugs, made them illegal or whatever; it is simply that it has said that, because they are so expensive, they the...

We had a similar problem over here about 18 months ago when Catholic adoption agencies were forced to be open to the idea of placing children with homosexual couples - as a consequence those agencies had to close too:tear:

For the record I don't hold to transubstantiation but I do hold to some kind of Real Presence in the Eucharist.

The date's inaccurate too - Trent didn't convene until 1545, by which time the Anabaptists had been around for a couple of decades or so. It's cod history - a few verifiable facts mixed in with a lot of speculation and quite a bit of dishonesty or fiction.

Why the unwarranted hostility? I was merely addressing some inaccuracies. Yes, I agree that if the government has a stake in healthcare provision (as I said above, it doesn't have a monopoly - you can still go private here) then it can move the goalposts and change the regulations, if nothing...

What's the original Hebrew in Is 50 say and mean?

Fair enough; there just seemed to be a lot of focus on Britain, that's all

What has the OP got to do with Sweden?

Yes, He really went around using that 'literal' sword during His earthly ministry, didn't He? I have a sword in my bedside drawer. It's called the Holy Bible, and none of the Gospel accounts therein have the Story of Jesus Running People Through with a Sword.

"You have heard it said....but I say unto you" - remind me, who said that? Oh, yeah, the guy we're meant to be following...

I wasn't accusing you of hypocrisy (and I also resent that I have to help to pay for the slaughter of the innocents - whether in the womb or in Iraq), just Mail readers.

Your comment about the 'great darkness' from 70AD sounds a lot like the Mormon concept of 'the Great Apostasy' of the similar period. I'm not arguing for that at all; it's just that your earlier denial of the supernatural in Communion sounds a lot to me like 'higher critical' liberal theology's...