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"St George’s Day Orgy in the Woods ….there’s an idea. Slay a few Dragons with my Dick "Where are these woods?  | |||
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"I will be eating pork pie and drinking mead" Yes, yes - but how will you be celebrating St George’s Day..? | |||
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"I will be eating pork pie and drinking mead Yes, yes - but how will you be celebrating St George’s Day..?" Ok just for this day I'll do it draped in an England flag | |||
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"I plan to shag a flag and be belligerent. " Haha! Yes! | |||
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"I’ve not seen any events advertised here locally " I'm sure that Jones the Morris Dancer will be busy later. | |||
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"How very sad of so many of the English to have little or no pride in their country on here. I fully expect that from the lefties but are any members who are not a self loathing lefty also of this inclination?" I get pride from things I’ve achieved. I don’t get how I am expected to be proud of an accident of birth. There’s lots about England that is utterly fabulous but am I proud of that? No. Just grateful I live here and can enjoy all it has to offer. | |||
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"How very sad of so many of the English to have little or no pride in their country on here. I fully expect that from the lefties but are any members who are not a self loathing lefty also of this inclination?" Not being a flag shagger doesn't mean we have no pride in our country | |||
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"How very sad of so many of the English to have little or no pride in their country on here. I fully expect that from the lefties but are any members who are not a self loathing lefty also of this inclination?" Tell us who you vote for with out actually telling us. Bad day? Wetherspoons closed? | |||
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"How very sad of so many of the English to have little or no pride in their country on here. I fully expect that from the lefties but are any members who are not a self loathing lefty also of this inclination? Tell us who you vote for with out actually telling us. Bad day? Wetherspoons closed?" I did actually ask for contributions from non self loathing lefties for my curiosity. Thank you for your contribution but it wasn’t from whom I respectfully asked. Filed in the bin but thanks anyway. | |||
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"I will be raising a glass to St George , my Dad and of of course the Bard , whose birthday is also the 23rd April " Also the date he died I believe? | |||
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"Whilst being patriotic I won't be bothering. With due respect to him I don't acknowledge St George as a suitable patron saint for England. He never visited these islands and England, as such, did not exist during his lifetime." ...thats always been my problem with George.. not sure how he got the gig he was dead way before the concept of "england" was thought of...¿ | |||
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" Not being a flag shagger doesn't mean we have no pride in our country " Exactly this. We have excellent countryside, music, arts, culture, humour etc etc. We are enriched in so many ways - e.g. black music, Indian cuisine etc. But the dullard flag shaggers want everyone to be miserable and uniform. A dull grey mash of conformity. Flag shaggers can do one. | |||
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"Whilst being patriotic I won't be bothering. With due respect to him I don't acknowledge St George as a suitable patron saint for England. He never visited these islands and England, as such, did not exist during his lifetime." Could scrap the Christian faith altogether if we go on that basis. Which is fine with me, as long as we sack off the other religions too. | |||
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"What is it?" The Irish have St Patrick's Day and the English have St George's day. Although to celebrate SGD is seen by some as racism. | |||
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" Not being a flag shagger doesn't mean we have no pride in our country Exactly this. We have excellent countryside, music, arts, culture, humour etc etc. We are enriched in so many ways - e.g. black music, Indian cuisine etc. But the dullard flag shaggers want everyone to be miserable and uniform. A dull grey mash of conformity. Flag shaggers can do one."  | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it. "Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England! 🙄 | |||
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"Whilst being patriotic I won't be bothering. With due respect to him I don't acknowledge St George as a suitable patron saint for England. He never visited these islands and England, as such, did not exist during his lifetime." Similar to St Andrew then? Born in Galilee & never visited Scotland. St Patrick, probably Welsh. Certainly not Irish. St David, a good old boyo. | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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"Whilst being patriotic I won't be bothering. With due respect to him I don't acknowledge St George as a suitable patron saint for England. He never visited these islands and England, as such, did not exist during his lifetime. Similar to St Andrew then? Born in Galilee & never visited Scotland. St Patrick, probably Welsh. Certainly not Irish. St David, a good old boyo." I heard that St Andrew is allegedly buried in Scotland. At least St Patrick went to Ireland and drove out the snakes [could do with him in parliament at the moment] And yes St David/ Dewi was a Welsh boyo. Plenty of home grown English saints who could fit the bill. | |||
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" Not being a flag shagger doesn't mean we have no pride in our country Exactly this. We have excellent countryside, music, arts, culture, humour etc etc. We are enriched in so many ways - e.g. black music, Indian cuisine etc. But the dullard flag shaggers want everyone to be miserable and uniform. A dull grey mash of conformity. Flag shaggers can do one." Yeah England fans in USA WC26, ditch the flags and take along your reggae records & Chicken Kormas to cheer your boys on! 🤣🤣 | |||
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"How very sad of so many of the English to have little or no pride in their country on here. I fully expect that from the lefties but are any members who are not a self loathing lefty also of this inclination?" So as a "lefty" am I expected to loath myself? | |||
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"I’m C of E so I don’t feel the need to celebrate saint’s days." C of E churches are still dedicated to saints even if the C OF E does not create saints. Having said that my first christening was in a church dedicated to King Charles the Martyr. | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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"And there’s our answer. Didn’t take long for the mask to slip and reveal the Rabid Right. | |||
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"Other than St Patrick's Day (and even that that was primarily created in New York/Boston) none of the 'home' saints have generated mass public celebrations other than as religious commemorations What with the modern age and mass communication there's lots of talk and acknowledgement but little in the way of marking them as patriotic expressions. And a good thing too imo!" Indeed St Patrick's Day has become quite a thing but started off by the American Irish. St David's Day in Wales seems to be a big thing in schools but nothing much elsewhere. Pubs, hotels and restaurants often put on special Welsh themed meals and some have special dinner parties but not an awful lot goes on. | |||
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"Other than St Patrick's Day (and even that that was primarily created in New York/Boston) none of the 'home' saints have generated mass public celebrations other than as religious commemorations What with the modern age and mass communication there's lots of talk and acknowledgement but little in the way of marking them as patriotic expressions. And a good thing too imo!" Paddy's day as done in rural Ireland is brilliant and nothing like the green beer blarney leprechaun everyone's Irish today shite they do in the US. When I lived in Co Clare it'd be a big parade of school floats and one from every bar in town, then tractors then whatever cut'n'shut contraptions the local lads had welded together, prizes for all sorts, then music sessions in the local bars that'd go on well into the small hours. Probably some church stuff to celebrate the saint's day too although not being religious I never did that. But a proper community celebration anyway. It'd be nice if we could celebrate Englishness in the same way without all the overtones, but I don't really see how now that St George and his flag have been hijacked by the gammon patriots. | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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And there’s our answer. Didn’t take long for the mask to slip and reveal the Rabid Right. "Indeed. He's so transparent. Much like the buffoon he probably votes for. | |||
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"Usually have my St George Flag flying on St George Day , but not doing so this year , the people round about flying "our" flag for the past few months are doing so for completely different reasons and I have no wish to be associated with them , it feels like they have borrowed our flag , one day we might get it back ,, if you doing something special have a great day ,, reading the previous messages it sounds like a few of you will be spending the day in the woods " I don't get that. You fly the flat or you don't, and you know what your motives are ( presumably to celebrate all that has been good about your home Country ) why worry about what other people's motive are? | |||
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"Can’t even fly the St George Flag without being called racist " Ignore that, it's only name calling and very over used at that. | |||
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"Can’t even fly the St George Flag without being called racist Ignore that, it's only name calling and very over used at that. " Oh don’t worry I fully back anyone who flys it it’s our flag and we should be able to fly it whenever we want I’d love to see them try and stop us 😁 | |||
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"How very sad of so many of the English to have little or no pride in their country on here. I fully expect that from the lefties but are any members who are not a self loathing lefty also of this inclination? So as a "lefty" am I expected to loath myself? " All lefties loath everything. | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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And there’s our answer. Didn’t take long for the mask to slip and reveal the Rabid Right.
Indeed. He's so transparent. Much like the buffoon he probably votes for. "Not probably pal, definitely. Also a Trump fan boy👍 | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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And there’s our answer. Didn’t take long for the mask to slip and reveal the Rabid Right. "You needn’t have waited so long for an answer, just ask, totally unapologetic to being as far opposite of a loony lefty! 👋 | |||
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"Can’t even fly the St George Flag without being called racist " World or European cup, royal weddings or anniversaries, St George's Day, I've got no problem with those for flying the flag. It's a community thing and brings people together. "Operation Raise The Colours"? Fuck that, everyone knows its purpose. It's to other people who don't look like us and intimidate them. | |||
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"Usually have my St George Flag flying on St George Day , but not doing so this year , the people round about flying "our" flag for the past few months are doing so for completely different reasons and I have no wish to be associated with them , it feels like they have borrowed our flag , one day we might get it back ,, if you doing something special have a great day ,, reading the previous messages it sounds like a few of you will be spending the day in the woods I don't get that. You fly the flat or you don't, and you know what your motives are ( presumably to celebrate all that has been good about your home Country ) why worry about what other people's motive are?" Exactly , I get to chose , and I chose not to because I don't want to be associated with those who live near who are not flying the flag for pride of anything but of hatred ,,, I will also add that apart from St George's Day I also flew my flag during football, and other sporting events, while those around me didn't ,they only seem to be doing so during the last few months ,, I doubt I will be flying my flag during this years World Cup for the same reason | |||
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"Usually have my St George Flag flying on St George Day , but not doing so this year , the people round about flying "our" flag for the past few months are doing so for completely different reasons and I have no wish to be associated with them , it feels like they have borrowed our flag , one day we might get it back ,, if you doing something special have a great day ,, reading the previous messages it sounds like a few of you will be spending the day in the woods " Well said | |||
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"As well as our patron saint in England, St George is recognised in a variety of regions, and most interestingly is actually the patron saint of Palestine. How fascinating that all those so terribly exercised and often fulminating about Palestine (including here in the Forum with several posters above) and so keen to display Palestine flags or post little ones on line 🇵🇸, seem to be so very reluctant to fly or display a little 🏴 flag to celebrate both England and Palestine. It’s just so curious." Some good points there. We can't deny that flag-shagging neanderthals don't exist, they're well represented here but they don't define the majority of fair-minded English people. It's about time we started a Fabguys Morris Dancing squad for that matter, there's bound to be a lot of interest. | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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And there’s our answer. Didn’t take long for the mask to slip and reveal the Rabid Right.
You needn’t have waited so long for an answer, just ask, totally unapologetic to being as far opposite of a loony lefty!
👋"Of course you're "unapologetic". I'm sure you're chosen political party is proud of you. Have fun in Wetherspoons. | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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And there’s our answer. Didn’t take long for the mask to slip and reveal the Rabid Right.
You needn’t have waited so long for an answer, just ask, totally unapologetic to being as far opposite of a loony lefty!
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Of course you're "unapologetic". I'm sure you're chosen political party is proud of you.
Have fun in Wetherspoons. "Happy, (early or late!), Iran Islamic Republic Revolution day for next February 11th! 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 A massacre here, a massacre there… | |||
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"As well as our patron saint in England, St George is recognised in a variety of regions, and most interestingly is actually the patron saint of Palestine. How fascinating that all those so terribly exercised and often fulminating about Palestine (including here in the Forum with several posters above) and so keen to display Palestine flags or post little ones on line 🇵🇸, seem to be so very reluctant to fly or display a little 🏴 flag to celebrate both England and Palestine. It’s just so curious." He is the patron saint of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian Christians... yes so your partly correct... just a little fact towards your Liberal reply... but to practice thier beliefs and faith peacefully now in those regions well now that will get you killed, to preach hate, r@pe and kill women and children on the streets of the UK now apparently that's ok, anyway to the Christians of Palestine happy St George's day , but I really don't think anyone will be celebrating it there do you OP?? so your post was a mere Liberal ramble . | |||
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"I thought I might buy a fleshlight and paint a big red cross on it.
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em, bloody English in England!
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Weird response."Eh??? 🫤 And buying a fleshlight and going to the trouble of then painting a big red cross on it to furiously wank whilst sighing ‘Yeah, look at me English! Look how I’m protesting about your National Day…yeah, have it…,’ is not weird??? 🤔 | |||
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"As well as our patron saint in England, St George is recognised in a variety of regions, and most interestingly is actually the patron saint of Palestine. How fascinating that all those so terribly exercised and often fulminating about Palestine (including here in the Forum with several posters above) and so keen to display Palestine flags or post little ones on line 🇵🇸, seem to be so very reluctant to fly or display a little 🏴 flag to celebrate both England and Palestine. It’s just so curious. He is the patron saint of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian Christians... yes so your partly correct... just a little fact towards your Liberal reply... but to practice thier beliefs and faith peacefully now in those regions well now that will get you killed, to preach hate, r@pe and kill women and children on the streets of the UK now apparently that's ok, anyway to the Christians of Palestine happy St George's day , but I really don't think anyone will be celebrating it there do you OP?? so your post was a mere Liberal ramble . " What an utterly bizarre response. Full of quick sneering and even quicker misunderstanding. *As I said* St George is recognised as a patron saint in a variety of regions following the cultural diaspora from the Middle East - including England, Georgia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Catalonia, Palestine - and there are other cities and areas where he has traditional celebrations (even if he is not the official patron saint): parts of Serbia, Albania, Lithuania, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq. They even have a big annual celebration to him in Moscow. I am sure there are lots of other places I can’t think of immediately. St George has traditionally been revered as a saint and hero by both Palestinian Christians and Muslims. A cult to the hero goes back centuries to Lydda (now modern-day Lod) and Muslims through the Middle East identify him with Al-Khidr. There are lots of shared pilgrimage sites where both religions have history of reverence. Learn a bit about cumulative syncretism in cults. It’s quite wrong to think that the figure in question is only important to Christians. Perhaps you don’t know as much about this as you think you do. As for my being a “Liberal”… Talk about getting the wrong end of the stick. Try reading things again - more slowly - and you might understand the point being made about “progressive” hypocrisy over flags. | |||
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" Not being a flag shagger doesn't mean we have no pride in our country Exactly this. We have excellent countryside, music, arts, culture, humour etc etc. We are enriched in so many ways - e.g. black music, Indian cuisine etc. ." Imagine your rich and ancient culture & heritage being reduced to your contribution to Friday night takeaways by some random vexiphobe on a hook up site! Quite the backhanded compliment! 🤣 | |||
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" He is the patron saint of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian Christians... yes so your partly correct... just a little fact towards your Liberal reply... but to practice thier beliefs and faith peacefully now in those regions well now that will get you killed, to preach hate, r@pe and kill women and children on the streets of the UK now apparently that's ok, anyway to the Christians of Palestine happy St George's day , but I really don't think anyone will be celebrating it there do you OP?? so your post was a mere Liberal ramble . " There are multiple interviews available online with Palestinian Christians both in the West Bank and from Gaza, and indeed they do face terrible persecution, from Israel. The population of Christians is dwindling because they are treated the same as any other Palestinians. The Israeli government treats all Palestinians the same regardless of religion. Their lives are controlled by borders and checkpoints which they cannot cross without permission. All the Christians I have heard said that they have immense personal pressure not to travel because they will not be given permission to return of they do. Hence their erasure. In Gaza the Christian population is treated with indifference by hamas, from what I have heard from Christians interviewed. Israel however have bombed churches and targeted convents with snipers, surely you recall this being reported in the news when the pope spoke out about the targeting of a convent school for days while Israeli snipers picked off the nuns one by one and Trump referred to the pope as a liar who doesn't know what he is talking about (paraphrasing) | |||
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"As well as our patron saint in England, St George is recognised in a variety of regions, and most interestingly is actually the patron saint of Palestine. How fascinating that all those so terribly exercised and often fulminating about Palestine (including here in the Forum with several posters above) and so keen to display Palestine flags or post little ones on line 🇵🇸, seem to be so very reluctant to fly or display a little 🏴 flag to celebrate both England and Palestine. It’s just so curious. He is the patron saint of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian Christians... yes so your partly correct... just a little fact towards your Liberal reply... but to practice thier beliefs and faith peacefully now in those regions well now that will get you killed, to preach hate, r@pe and kill women and children on the streets of the UK now apparently that's ok, anyway to the Christians of Palestine happy St George's day , but I really don't think anyone will be celebrating it there do you OP?? so your post was a mere Liberal ramble . What an utterly bizarre response. Full of quick sneering and even quicker misunderstanding. *As I said* St George is recognised as a patron saint in a variety of regions following the cultural diaspora from the Middle East - including England, Georgia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Catalonia, Palestine - and there are other cities and areas where he has traditional celebrations (even if he is not the official patron saint): parts of Serbia, Albania, Lithuania, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq. They even have a big annual celebration to him in Moscow. I am sure there are lots of other places I can’t think of immediately. St George has traditionally been revered as a saint and hero by both Palestinian Christians and Muslims. A cult to the hero goes back centuries to Lydda (now modern-day Lod) and Muslims through the Middle East identify him with Al-Khidr. There are lots of shared pilgrimage sites where both religions have history of reverence. Learn a bit about cumulative syncretism in cults. It’s quite wrong to think that the figure in question is only important to Christians. Perhaps you don’t know as much about this as you think you do. As for my being a “Liberal”… Talk about getting the wrong end of the stick. Try reading things again - more slowly - and you might understand the point being made about “progressive” hypocrisy over flags. " Misssed out some of my reply... Ah liberals selectively living in a bubble. Please dont use ai to reply to my messages , happy St George's day and next time you visit the middle East or even march in a pro terrorist march wear that get up in your pic 
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"One such interview can be Googled by searching for Tucker Carlson Mother Agapia " That man has lost the plot | |||
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"As well as our patron saint in England, St George is recognised in a variety of regions, and most interestingly is actually the patron saint of Palestine. How fascinating that all those so terribly exercised and often fulminating about Palestine (including here in the Forum with several posters above) and so keen to display Palestine flags or post little ones on line 🇵🇸, seem to be so very reluctant to fly or display a little 🏴 flag to celebrate both England and Palestine. It’s just so curious. He is the patron saint of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian Christians... yes so your partly correct... just a little fact towards your Liberal reply... but to practice thier beliefs and faith peacefully now in those regions well now that will get you killed, to preach hate, r@pe and kill women and children on the streets of the UK now apparently that's ok, anyway to the Christians of Palestine happy St George's day , but I really don't think anyone will be celebrating it there do you OP?? so your post was a mere Liberal ramble . What an utterly bizarre response. Full of quick sneering and even quicker misunderstanding. *As I said* St George is recognised as a patron saint in a variety of regions following the cultural diaspora from the Middle East - including England, Georgia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Catalonia, Palestine - and there are other cities and areas where he has traditional celebrations (even if he is not the official patron saint): parts of Serbia, Albania, Lithuania, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq. They even have a big annual celebration to him in Moscow. I am sure there are lots of other places I can’t think of immediately. St George has traditionally been revered as a saint and hero by both Palestinian Christians and Muslims. A cult to the hero goes back centuries to Lydda (now modern-day Lod) and Muslims through the Middle East identify him with Al-Khidr. There are lots of shared pilgrimage sites where both religions have history of reverence. Learn a bit about cumulative syncretism in cults. It’s quite wrong to think that the figure in question is only important to Christians. Perhaps you don’t know as much about this as you think you do. As for my being a “Liberal”… Talk about getting the wrong end of the stick. Try reading things again - more slowly - and you might understand the point being made about “progressive” hypocrisy over flags. Misssed out some of my reply... Ah liberals selectively living in a bubble. Please dont use ai to reply to my messages , happy St George's day and next time you visit the middle East or even march in a pro terrorist march wear that get up in your pic
"I’m 55 about to turn 56 and I’ve never been called a liberal in my life before. Unlikely I ever would considering how right of centre I am. I’ve never used AI to write anything - why would I? I don’t visit the Middle East. I’ve never been on a pro terrorist march. You obviously haven’t understood the point I’m making about the hypocrisy of so many happy to fly the Palestine flag but not the England flag considering the heritage of St George (perhaps it was too subtle for you.) You clearly don’t understand anything about the history of St George in the Middle East. You’re just screeching and screeching at me like a harpy. Utterly, utterly beserk. | |||
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