> > I have to agree with you; It's hard to walk down the high street in my home town on a weekend without being harangued by Christians of a dozen denominations trying to convince me that any form of belief that isn't *exactly* the same as theirs will be punished by eternal damnation.
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> Blah. Now *that's* wrong. There's more freedom within God's Word than *some* people want you to know, whether you do Torah or not.
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> > What they don't seem to understand is that if I wanted to be a Christian, I would be by now. It's not as if Croydon is otherwise free of Christian influence.
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> Hmm. I didn't know that. The only place I'm even vaguely acquainted with Croydon(or *South* Croydon) from is Doctor Who. I think Sarah Jane Smith wanted to go there.
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> > winter"Missionaries always annoy me"mute
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> Nyperold

Well, we have 3 churches over 1,000 years old. The Archbishop of Cantebury had a home not 500 yards from my house from 1087 to 1753. Half the town has been named after Sir John Whitgift, Archbishop during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The town's coat of arms is made up of ecclesiastical symbols.

winter"My old school was on the site of a monastery"mute