And the point I was trying to make was that those who display the cross of St George today are doing so to declare their nationality, not for religious reasons.splinter said:ban-all-sheds said:Blimey!splinter said:not English or Lithuanian or even the nationality of the many countries that he is patron saint of.I suppose it all goes back to the days when a persons religious beleives meant more than nationalityban-all-sheds said:And the nationality of St George was......???Slogger said:could be some like to show there nationality and patirotism
I never realised that all of those people displaying the Cross of St George in the form of flags, banners and face-paints were proclaiming their religious beliefs...
You learn something new every day....
BAS,as you was making a point about St. Georges nationality,all Iwas just trying to say(not very clearly) is that St. George had more relavance to Catholic people in"days of old" when their religious believes were more relevant to them than their nationality
And I wonder how many of them would welcome a half-Palestinian, half-Turkish refugee if he turned up claiming to be fleeing the oppression of a brutal occupying colonial power in his homeland..