Face to faith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1634847,00.html
The 400th anniversary of the gunpowder plot is a time to focus on what
unites the religious and the secular, writes Catherine Pepinster
Saturday November 5, 2005
The Guardian
Today people throughout Britain will be gathering round bonfires to
celebrate the thwarting of the plot by Guy Fawkes and his
co-conspirators to blow up parliament. Tonight's will no doubt be a
bigger than usual national celebration of the defeat of Catholic
treachery, as this year is the 400th anniversary of the gunpowder plot.
Already commentators have been suggesting that parallels can be drawn
between 1605 and today, given that the plot involved disgruntled
religionists turning to terror.
Catherine Pepinster
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/825675d6c935360b
Guy Fawkes
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/250ef1340d4a6808
Catholicism
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/97a95b560bb92eb6
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