I've just watched it on iPlayer. It was even worse than I had imagined..
Utterly dreadful.
Utterly dreadful.
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Come back Roger Royle.Comment
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I think the last time I watched SOP was November 1977. I'd just got home from playing a match and I was too tired to get up and turn to the other side (don't think we had a remote control until about 1980). It wasn't too bad. Maybe because they sung some of the better tunes we sang in assembly. Anyway, why is this programme still going? Who watches it? Harry's dead.Comment
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Well then why did you watch it?Originally posted by alycidon View Post
Perhaps Christians should be grateful for the fact that their religion is sufficiently privileged in this country that it gets a prime-time television slot to itself, something which no other religion does.My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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That's because it's a Christian country! Same thing goes on in Pakistan, Turkey etc, with Moslem programmes.Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View PostComment
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Oh please God, no !!Originally posted by Alison View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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In the broadest sense - that of cultural heritage - it certainly is. Not in terms of faith, though.Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
Here's information from recent surveys, including the prestigious British Social Attitudes Survey:
The percentage of the UK population that describes itself as having no religion has risen from 31.4% to 50.6% between 1983 and 2013 (BSA Survey, 31st report, 2014). Among people aged between 15 and 24, the incidence of 'no religion' is 69.3%. It is only among the over-55s that a majority are religious.
Conversely, the report found that only 41.7% of people in the UK identify as Christians, compared with 49.9% in 2008 and 65.2% in 1983. Church of England membership has more than halved from 40.3% of the population in 1983 to just 16.3% in 2014. (A separate study has suggested that almost half of Catholics in Britain are not British-born.)
A 2014 YouGov poll suggested that 77% of the population did not consider themselves to be religious in any real sense, two-thirds of whom said they were 'definitely not' religious.
Religiosity is particularly on the wane amongst young people. A 2013 YouGov poll found that only 25% of 16-24-year-olds believe in a personal God, whilst 38% believe neither in God nor any greater spiritual power. The same study found that only 12% of young people said they were influenced by religious leaders.
Having said all that, I am very sad to witness the destruction of Songs of Praise.Comment
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What I find odd is that the BBC have only just discovered the vibrant Pentecostal churches which have been thriving in this country since at least the 1960s.
As for all those East Europeans, aren't they mostly Catholic?Comment
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Yep, indeed. That's why I said 'it's a Christian country'Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
And of course, the majority of the population share that cultural heritage.Comment
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Oh I see. You didn't actually mean that it's a Christian country, then?Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostYep, indeed. That's why I said 'it's a Christian country'
And of course, the majority of the population share that cultural heritage.Comment
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I was hoping for a reasoned response, not a childish remark.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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I actually meant that it's Christian country. In the same way that you said it's a Christian country.Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
We both agree that it's a Christian country.
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