Monday, June 30, 2025

No Jailing In Crown Court of This Low-Life Will Be FURTHER Proof of Two Tier Justice! (Lucy got two and half years after taking nasty piece down from internet. Ergo, he MUST deserve TREBLE that!)

Hate speech rapper ‘must be treated like Lucy Connolly’.

Police told not arresting Bob Vylan frontman over ‘death to the IDF’ chants would be ‘clear example of two-tier justice’
Bob Vylan singer Pascal Robinson-Foster called for the death of Israeli soldiers during his Glastonbury set on Saturday
Bob Vylan singer Pascal Robinson-Foster called for the death of Israeli soldiers during his Glastonbury set on Saturday Credit: Matt Crossick / Alamy Live News
Natasha Leake. Will Bolton Crime correspondent
29 June 2025 9:06pm BST
Police have been warned that failing to arrest a rapper over “appalling hate speech” at Glastonbury Festival would be a “clear example of two-tier justice”.
Bobby Vylan, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, repeatedly chanted “death, death to the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces]” in a performance that was broadcast live by the BBC.
The incident has drawn comparisons with the case of Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for 31 months last year for inciting racial hatred after publishing a racist social media post.
Robinson-Foster, the frontman of rap duo Bob Vylan, may have broken the law by using “threatening and abusive words that were likely to stir up racial hatred”.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “It seems very clear that this man was directly inciting violence. He should receive the same treatment under the law as others, such as Lucy Connolly.
“He should be arrested and prosecuted immediately. A failure to do so would be a clear example of two-tier justice under Sir Keir Starmer and his attorney general, Lord Hermer.”
Connolly posted a message last year amid public outrage in the wake of the Southport attack, in which Axel Rudakubana stabbed three young girls to death.
She wrote: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f------ hotels full of the b------- for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government politicians with them.
“I feel physically sick knowing what these [Southport] families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.”
Credit: BBCRichard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK, said that if police were going to be “consistent”, they should arrest and charge Robinson-Foster.Mr Tice said: “What he did was far worse than what Lucy Connolly did. His chanting was clearly anti-Semitic, it was clearly racist, it was an incitement to violence.”Sir Keir Starmer condemned Robinson-Foster’s “appalling hate speech” and warned that the BBC had questions to answer.The Prime Minister told The Telegraph that the corporation urgently “needed to explain how these scenes came to be broadcast”.The corporation is under growing scrutiny over why the performance was streamed unedited in the first place and why, when the offensive chants began, it failed to cut the feed or bleep any offensive language.The set was aired in full on BBC iPlayer on the stream showing the West Holts stage. Among the songs on the set list was Wicked & Bad, which includes the lyric, “Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went”, referring to Margaret Thatcher, the late Prime Minister.
The rapper chanted “free, free!” to which the crowd responded “Palestine!” He then repeatedly chanted: “Death, death to the IDF!” 
On Sunday, the organisers of the festival also condemned the performance, with Emily Eavis posting a statement saying the chants “very much crossed a line” and that there is “no place... for anti-Semitism, hate speech or incitement to violence”.
On Sunday night, Avon and Somerset Police said it was reviewing footage of the set to determine whether any criminal offences were committed.
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Nice One, Rod!

 Nigel, the veteran Brexiteer, has received a further boost with an endorsement from pop icon Sir Rod Stewart, who performed the coveted Legends slot at the Glastonbury Festival.

Sir Rod, 80, who has recovered from a nasty bout of flu just in time to appear at Worthy Farm in Somerset, said: “We’re fed up with the Tories. We’ve got to give Farage a chance. He’s coming across well.”

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Reform or Die!

 Reform or die.

Neither Labour nor Tories grasp the need to ditch universalism to defend the nation.

This is an extended version of my column in this morning’s Times UK (£)

Reform’s political earthquake has left both Labour and the Tories staring into the abyss. Nigel Farage has seized that most precious of political assets, momentum.

Some key Labour people understand the reason but the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, refuses to follow the logic. The Tories, however, don’t seem to get it at all. And that is the essence of the crisis gripping conservatism and fuelling the rise of populism across the west.

The remarks made by Reform’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, after his party’s game-changing triumph in last week’s local elections, got straight to the point. Young people, he said, needed to be re-moralised, given a sense of belonging, taught to love their country rather than, as at present, to hate it.

While TikTok was teaching western children gender dysphoria, he told the Sunday Times, it was teaching Chinese children to become scientists. Illegal immigration was a “national emergency” that was fraying the nation’s “social contract”. He asked:

How many young people know who Isambard Kingdom Brunel is? Look at the character assassination that has occurred on the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill. The fact that they have to cover up his statue because they don’t want to provoke protesters. I mean that’s the sort of utterly indefensible so-called leadership that we’ve had and young people feel that in their bones.

If you’ll forgive a touch of self-promotion, Yusuf’s remarks read like a distillation of my own writing since the late 1980s, which the political and cultural elites regarded as as irrelevant at best and toxic at worst...

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ENJOY The Lord!


 

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This Blogger Hasn't A Clue Who Rogan Is - But Is Delighted For Him, All The Same!

Joe Rogan is 'attending church' on a 'consistent' basis.

Leah MarieAnn Klett
 
22 May, 2025 09:12 BST
 
Joe RoganJoe Rogan has a huge following.

Joe Rogan, prominent podcaster and frequent commentator on life’s biggest questions, is consistently “attending church,” Christian apologist Wesley Huff has revealed.

"I can tell you for a fact that he is attending a church and that that has been a consistent thing," Huff, who is the Central Canada director for Apologetics Canada, said during a recent appearance on Apologetics Canada.

Huff, who joined Rogan's show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” for a three-hour discussion about Christianity and the Bible in January, said, "Joe Rogan and I have had on-and-off communication since then. I can tell you for a fact that he is attending church and that has been a consistent thing.



"And so, you know, things are happening," he continued. "And he's a very inquisitive individual, and I think for the better in that he's communicating with me and other people in his life who are influences that can speak into, you know, these issues of reliability and trustworthiness and verisimilitude of something like the pages of Scripture, and where he should and shouldn't be looking for the information in regards to that."

Huff said he’s “very encouraged” by his communications with Rogan over the last few months, adding: “We're seeing what I don't think is an exaggeration to say, somewhat of a resurgence in interest in these topics that we've been talking about, even the nitty gritty.”

The apologist, who also recently appeared on comedian Andrew Schulz’s podcast, cited examples of young people increasingly showing interest in the Bible. 

“We had someone who reached ot to us recently at Apologetics Canada, who is probably the last bricks-and-mortar Christian bookstore that I've ever heard of. But they said, 'We have people walking through our doors asking, young people, teenagers saying, I want a Bible. All my friends are reading this thing.' So this the Bible is, you know, becoming popular with teenagers. Then yeah, something is happening and the Lord is moving," Huff said.

Huff's comments come amid a new Gallup report revealing that, after years of steady decline, the religious makeup of the U.S. has leveled off; the percentage of Americans identifying as Christian, unaffiliated or belonging to another tradition has remained largely unchanged over the last five years.



Rogan, who has long used his platform to explore life’s big questions, recently expressed skepticism about the Big Bang theory and said he finds the resurrection of Jesus Christ more realistic than the belief that the universe created itself out of nothing.

During a May 7 conversation with comedy podcast host Cody Tucker, Rogan said he's “sticking with Jesus” when it comes to miraculous claims.

“It’s funny, because people will be incredulous about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but yet, they’re convinced that the entire universe was smaller than a head of a pin and that for no reason that anyone has adequately explained to me, instantaneously became everything? OK,” Rogan said.

Rogan’s podcast consistently ranks at the top of Spotify's podcast charts and has been the No. 1 podcast on the platform since 2020. Raised Catholic, Rogan has called himself agnostic but has increasingly engaged in discussions about faith and Christianity on his podcast.

Discussing the origins of the universe, Rogan questioned whether the notion of “nothing” ever truly existing makes logical sense. “Wouldn’t it be crazy if there wasn’t something at one point in time?” he said. “That seems even crazier than there has always been something. … There couldn’t be nothing, and then all of a sudden, everything.”

Tucker suggested the universe might have required an outside force to set it in motion, prompting Rogan to reference the late ethnobotanist Terence McKenna. Rogan cited McKenna’s famous line, as quoted in Rupert Sheldrake’s book Morphic Resonance, that “modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’”

“That’s McKenna’s great line,” Rogan said. “The difference between science and religion is that science only asks you to believe in one miracle — the Big Bang.”

“I’m sticking with Jesus on that one," he added. “Jesus makes more sense. People have come back to life.”

Rogan’s interest in Christianity has surfaced repeatedly over the past year. 

In a conversation with musician Kid Rock in 2023, Rogan said, “I think the concept of Jesus is absolutely amazing, and if Jesus came here and wanted to visit me, I would be psyched.”

In March, Rogan and former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines discussed Satan, Jesus, biblical prophecy and the role transgenderism plays in the moral decline of society. 

Gaines told Rogan that while society is clearly in a moral decline, she finds solace in the fact that, as a Christian, she’s confident in the “outcome” and “knowing how this all ends.”

“Really trusting that, and having faith in that, and just knowing the battle is already won — that's certainly what keeps me grounded and keeps a smile on my face, and an incredibly light heart even when these crazy freaks at San Francisco are running at me,” she said.

“The first thing I do is pray for them. I'm like, ‘Oh my gosh, you look miserable and I can't imagine having that much hatred in my heart.’ So I think all of those things are what maybe made me a little different. The combination of those things … set me apart from some of my peers.”

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Birdie.


 

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Good Stuff. But In The UK - How Do We Manage to Almost Totally Ignore The Butchery?

House passage of bill defunding Planned Parenthood draws excitement, caution from pro-lifers.

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Friday, May 23, 2025
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Pro-life and Christian leaders offered mixed reactions after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this week that would strip federal funding from the nation's largest abortion provider, as it still awaits approval from the U.S. Senate and President Donald Trump. 

In a 215-214 vote Wednesday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed House Resolution 1, also known as the Big Beautiful Bill Act.


The vote on the measure fell mainly along party lines, with all Democrats opposing it and two Republicans breaking from their party by voting against it. Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., voted against the bill, while a third Republican, Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, voted "present." 

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Casting Lots? - No. I Don't Really Think So.

 God's will or not in modern times? Casting lots for big decisions in life.

By Luke Taylor

, Op-ed contributor Saturday, June 28, 2025
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Some decisions are too big to be left to chance — like who to marry, where to live, or what you’re going to do with your life.

We would never flip a coin on such important things. And yet, in the Bible, people did just that. You actually see them engaging in a practice called casting lots to make major decisions. Decisions like whether to go into battle, how to distribute permanent land ownership to various families, and even determining who was guilty of a crime.

The weird thing is not just that ancient people came up with such questionable tactics to make weighty decisions, but ancient history is full of such superstitious behavior. The weird thing is that it worked.

Casting lots worked in the Bible

Throughout the Scriptures, we see example after example of God revealing His will and direction to people through the practice of casting lots.

  • Achan’s guilt in stealing forbidden items from Jericho was exposed through the practice of casting lots (Joshua 7:14-18).
  • Jonah was revealed amongst the sailors as the reason for God’s anger and a tempestuous storm (Jonah 1:7-10).
  • Land allotments in the newly conquered Promised Land were distributed to families through casting lots (Joshua 18:6).
  • Priestly orders of service were decided based on this practice (I Chronicles 24-26).

And there are numerous other examples as well. Casting lots was used so often and so reliably, it caused Solomon to write in Proverbs 16:33, “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.”

What is casting lots?

We aren’t exactly sure what casting lots looked like, but we do know it was something similar to a game of chance. It was similar to drawing straws, rolling dice, or gambling. For example, the Roman soldiers cast lots over Jesus’ garments while He hung on the cross (John 19:23).

Here is how GotQuestions.org describes casting lots:



“The practice of casting lots is mentioned seventy times in the Old Testament and seven times in the New Testament. In spite of the many references to casting lots in the Old Testament, nothing is known about the actual lots themselves. They could have been sticks of various lengths, flat stones like coins, or some kind of dice; but their exact nature is unknown. The closest modern practice to casting lots is likely flipping a coin.”

It doesn’t sound like the most spiritual way to make your decisions or ascertain God’s intentions. And yet, throughout the Bible, God approved of and used it to reveal His divine will.

Was it just an Old Testament practice?

Perhaps you’re thinking, Maybe God communicated in this way in Old Testament times, but surely God didn’t do that anymore in the New Testament.

And that would be incorrect.

In fact, it comes up again when — just after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus — the 11 disciples (now called apostles) are trying to find a twelfth member to replace Judas. The candidates are narrowed down to two guys: Justus and Matthias. And here’s what Scripture says in Acts 1:26: “And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.”

This was a pretty significant moment. It’s not under the Old Covenant — this takes place after the cross. These 12 men are about to carry out the Great Commission. They are to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. This is initiating the process of building the church. Revelation says the names of the 12 apostles are written on the foundations of Heaven. And they pick the twelfth guy by playing eeny-meeny-miney-Matthias.

This is probably not how we’d advise any church to pick its next pastor. Was it right for the apostles to pick the 12th member this way? In their defense, they had a lot of biblical precedent for it.

And it might cause us to ask: Can I cast lots for big decisions in my life as well?

Should we cast lots today?

While the Bible does not specifically say that we can’t, I believe there is great significance to what happens immediately after this event in the book of Acts.

The verse we read above, Acts 1:26, is the last verse of the first chapter. The very next verses after this describe what happened when the Holy Spirit came down.

Acts 2:1-4 says, “When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

At the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit fell upon the newly founded church and took up residence inside believers. After this, for the rest of the Bible, making decisions by casting lots is never mentioned again.

Daniel Kidner’s commentary on Proverbs, speaking on Proverbs 16:33, says this about the practice of casting lots today: “God’s last use of this method was, significantly, the last event before Pentecost” (Proverbs, Kidner Classic Commentaries, Tyndale, emphasis mine).

Everything changed when the Holy Spirit fell. Now, He is supposed to be our guide (John 16:13-15, Romans 8:14).

The Spirit’s guidance in Acts

And throughout the rest of the book of Acts, after the Day of Pentecost, you no longer see any lots being cast to make decisions. However, you will see this:

Acts 8:29: “The Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over and join this chariot.’” 

Acts 16:6-7: “And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.”

Acts 13:2: “The Holy Spirit said, ‘set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’”

Acts 15:28: “It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us…”

Acts 20:22-23: “And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.”

The Spirit speaks. The Spirit forbids. The Spirit constrains. The Spirit testifies.

Don’t decide your next family vacation or where to buy your next car by casting lots. God does not intend to guide our lives by random chance, but by His Spirit within you.

Listen for His voice.

Luke Taylor is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God. He is the host of the "Weird Stuff in the Bible" podcast and recently launched a website (WeirdStuffInTheBible.com) to further answer peoples’ questions about the strange things in Scripture. CP.

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