Around the world in 80 Faiths

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This is the BBC’s latest offering. It features an Anglican priest wandering around the world “exploring” different faiths. The Anglican priest is rather stereotypical - middle aged, middle class with what was once obviously a crowning glory of curly hair now sadly diminished. His parish is Surbiton just on the polite fringes of London. Surbiton is the epitome of suburbia. It coined the phrase. My brother lives there. It’s not exactly secular but rather embraces all faiths - “there are many paths to God” - hmmm. A bit like the Anglican church which tries to be all things to all men - and fails miserably as a result.
The series is exactly as I thought it would be. This guy is going around the world apologising for Christianity. At one point he takes part in a wicca ritual in surban Sydney! After 2 hours he feels unable to continue but ends up claiming that these people have “an awareness of the nature world, sadly lacking in Christianity”. Right, put anyone of them in nature and asked them to survive and they would all starve!!!

Sorry, rant over :mad:
 
AND I just know my family will be watching this rubbish and it will reinforce their viewpoint that ANY approach to any god is valid!!!
 
In this case I like the Advaitist perspective. What need have you of approaching what you arleady in Essence are? There is only the work of divesting your awareness of the illusion of separation.
 
80 faiths?

There are other 300,000 different religions in the world.
 
Black_Dog said:
The series is exactly as I thought it would be. This guy is going around the world apologising for Christianity. At one point he takes part in a wicca ritual in surban Sydney! After 2 hours he feels unable to continue but ends up claiming that these people have “an awareness of the nature world, sadly lacking in Christianity”. Right, put anyone of them in nature and asked them to survive and they would all starve!!!
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2 hours? A Christian minister should be unable to participate in their rituals full stop!

And I agree, these upper middle class wiccans, most of them would starve to death if put anywhere near nature.
 
Dear E,

Knowing what we do about how the mind works, and that being evident on these many postings on the entirety of CAF, I would hazard that the number of religions is 1/1/population, and that having x# of them refers to organizations, not the members.
 
Eucharisted said:
80 faiths?

There are other 300,000 different religions in the world.
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I think it’s meant to be a play on the novel title “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne. That’s what occurred to me when I had the same thought as you regarding the fact that there are indeed more than 80 world religions. Granted, I could be wrong about the title, but I think that’s what they were trying to do.

Pax,
NFPgirl
 
You had me interested for a moment, but then… the Anglican priest… :nope:

I would have loved to see that program, if it was secular in all the right places.

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood
 
The Anglican vicar is about as secular as you can get and still be classed as having a religion, just like most of his boys.
 
NFPgirl said:
I think it’s meant to be a play on the novel title “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne. That’s what occurred to me when I had the same thought as you regarding the fact that there are indeed more than 80 world religions. Granted, I could be wrong about the title, but I think that’s what they were trying to do.

Pax,
NFPgirl
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There was another programme, in 2008, called (IIRC), “Around the World in 80 Menus”. Now that “Big Brother” has returned, they may have to think of something else. TV these days is pretty dire 🙂​

 
I have got halfway through the first episode on the BBC iplayer.

This Anglican vicar has the utter cheek, the affront, to recieve the Eucharist in a Catholic Church. So disrespectful. He shows a complete misunderstanding of the faiths he ‘‘investigates’’ and that which he supposedly represents.
 
LDNCatholic said:
The Anglican vicar is about as secular as you can get and still be classed as having a religion, just like most of his boys.
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…I think I would have preferred an atheist. :sad_yes: I’m not saying atheists are bad, but at least they’re secular the way I like it. :o

Ironically Yours. ❤️
 
LDNCatholic said:
I have got halfway through the first episode on the BBC iplayer.

This Anglican vicar has the utter cheek, the affront, to recieve the Eucharist in a Catholic Church. So disrespectful. He shows a complete misunderstanding of the faiths he ‘‘investigates’’ and that which he supposedly represents.
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That is very bad :mad: 😦 :eek:​

 
He gets his comeuppance later 🙂 just seen him questioning some aboriginies who were performing a cultural ritual, he gets very disappointed that they aren’t talking about ‘‘dreaming’’, what he calls their religion, when he questions them about it he finds they don’t know anything about it, because they are all Christian! His disappointment at that fact was palpable.
 
Blade_and_Blood said:
…I think I would have preferred an atheist. :sad_yes: I’m not saying atheists are bad, but at least they’re secular the way I like it. :o

Ironically Yours. ❤️
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Oh well, can’t have everything you want, I’d prefer it if the fella was knowledgeable but what can we do:D ?
 
The Anglican priest’s discovery of the loss of the knowledge of “Dream time” is evidence of how missionaryism has been the downfall of some extraordinary mental/spiritual maps, and therefore experiences. Ho’oponopono is another.
 
Anglicanism is the single greatest driving force in the conversion of large numbers of Britons to Catholicism.

A lot of Britons seem to still want church and are sensitive enough to want a real one.
 
Its a strange mix of Orientalism, self hate and a warped sense of ‘‘white mans burden’’, they are Christians now, and he feels bad about that, though he admits he knows nothing at all about the dream time he feels he should be the one to remind them of it.

He is also ridiculously condescending, speaking to them (though they speak perfect English) in broken English, repeating their sentences after they’ve said it and things like that as if they are some primitive undiscovered tribe.

One of the Aborigine women introduced herself: ‘‘My name is Noreen Robertson’’

Vicar: ‘‘Your name is Noreen Robinson’’

Lady: ‘‘Robertson’’

Vicar: ‘‘Robertson’’

Patronizing little twit.
 
He’s apparently still living in the ‘glorious’ days of Colonianism. 😃
Fortunately (or should i say unfortunately) he’s not alone. 😦
 
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