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Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

843 replies

follderol · 26/01/2009 18:01

It seems to me there's a large amount of Christian posts. I've also noticed a fair amount of disapproval for other religions.

I am an atheist. I don't really want to be part of a christian site posing as a parenting site.

So is this actually a Christian place?

OP posts:
PlainOldPeachy · 27/01/2009 12:19

pmsl @ Ruty

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:19

Threadworm - you are absolutely right about the jammy dodgers. I meant pre-Vatican II of course.

Threadworm · 27/01/2009 12:19

Peachy, "faith bar Messianic Judaism" sounds like a kind of bisCuit.

"If you like a lot of chutzpah on your biscuit join our club"

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:18

Happy faces are not really appropriate biscuits for church, except on certain feast days. I suspect, ruty, that it was your intuitive understanding that something was not right with the post-mass refreshments that caused you to question your faith in the first place.

ruty · 27/01/2009 12:17

i reckon UD is DominiConnor on valium...

georgimama · 27/01/2009 12:17

I love jammy dodgers, but they must have cream and the little heart shaped holes in them. I think Crawfords make the proper ones.

PlainOldPeachy · 27/01/2009 12:16

yummmm garibaldi (Must b why I am a Christian Universalist instead of anything anyone ever heard of LOL)

Threadworm · 27/01/2009 12:15

MP: jammy dodgers are like those weird statues in catholic churches where Jesus is showing his (red and sticky) open wound. So I'd def say catholic.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:15

morning paper, that is a very post-Vatican II sort of biscuit.

PlainOldPeachy · 27/01/2009 12:15

Gawd no! i even re-edit my posts to check I haven't done my usual (Christaian) blessing / praying for you in the wrong places

georgimama · 27/01/2009 12:15

Mmm, pretty accurate. I have a wild streak of Methodist in me too.

ruty · 27/01/2009 12:14

We used to get Happy Faces after church. Do they still do them? Actually, perhaps my whole nostalgic longing for ritual and prayer stems from my desire for Happy Faces....

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:14

Cat, you are right - that is where the protestantism comes in - there is a hint of self-denial about the garibaldi.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:14

Bourbon usually high church anglican.

CatIsSleepy · 27/01/2009 12:13

no-one really likes garibaldis though surely?

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:13

No that was just a joke about Opus Dei. The rest is all true though.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:12

Garibaldi is the biscuit of choice for the intellectually curious liberal humanist with a hint of protestantism in their background.

morningpaper · 27/01/2009 12:12

I like the jammy dodgers with the cream inside

CatIsSleepy · 27/01/2009 12:12

Iorek you are worrying me
is dan lepard a member of Opus Dei? I need to know

and which biscuits would be more suitable for a lapsed catholic?

mind you they were good
had ginger in too
does that change anything?

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 12:12
georgimama · 27/01/2009 12:11

Bourbon.

Seriously, to answer the OP, this is somewhere that people talk about stuff that matters to them, or interests them, or about which they would like advice. Mostly that is about their children but it's far wider than that and sometimes religion comes into it.

If it bothers you that much, hide the spirituality section.

UnquietDad · 27/01/2009 12:10

I like the way this has gone all biscuit-related.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:10

I have extensive experience of the anglo-catholic biscuit spectrum, cat. Chocolate parkin is a long way over to the Catholic side. It's probably what they eat at Opus Dei meetings.

Threadworm · 27/01/2009 12:10

Wilfsell: you are clearly a satanist.

WilfSell · 27/01/2009 12:09

mine is garibaldi

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