Shooting oneself in the foot.

I do so love it when the liberal left accomplish one of their unbelievably self-destructive acts. Normally they hate hypocrisy but in their own case they are prepared to make exceptions.
With the utmost crass insensitivity, St Andrews University is in the process of awarding an honorary degree to Muhammed Khatami the cuddly, former President of Iran who supports the execution of homosexuals. Just how do these radical opposites remain such cosy bedfellows?
It actually gets better - or worse if you prefer - the degree is to be awarded by the Lib Dem leader, Menzies Campbell!

John Sentamu does it again.

Every now and then, there is a chink of light appears, even in the upper reaches of the Anglican Church. To add to the Bishop of Rochester, we have the Archbishop of York who continues to impress.
Even the Daily Mail - not a paper which embraces Christianity in any other than a vague it- must-be-a-generally-good-thing kind of way, yesterday devoted a two page spread to the excellent John Sentamu.

Christian socialism.

Many people believe that socialism and Christianity have a great deal in common; that both are concerned with the creation of a better society. This idea is false.
Socialism is no more no less than a diluted form of marxism; less extreme but with similar goals. Both wish to control the individual in order to create the kind of society which they wish to impose. Marxism is merely more direct and more immediately dangerous.
Socialism believes effectively in the inherent goodness of mankind something which is completely out of line with Christian teaching and means that the house is being built on sand.
When compared, which is the more realistic view of humanity? Is it goodness or sin?
Mankind is not capable of digging himself out of the hole he has created for himself - society simply worsens year on year with no light at the end of the tunnel.
Is it a coincidence that as socialist ideas across all three major parties increase, and attacks on Christianity attempt to marginalise it as a force for good, that the world gets worse?
The world can only be improved as more people yield themselves to the Saviour. To be a Christian and a socialist requires compromise. Large chunks of socialism are built on the politics of envy - hardly a sound Christian base.

See posting on Marx the satanist - July the 4th.

What is the truth?

Well. Do we need one and a half million extra homes built on these overcrowded islands just to cover immigration, or is the recalculated figure likely to be 2 million?

Muslims and government promote BNP?

Which is the more frightening and offensive in an allegedly democratic society? You must decide. You have three choices and I am not entirely sure which is the correct answer:-
1) Bands of aggressive, extreme Muslims parading publicly through our streets, making threats to kill 'infidels' and remaining unchallenged and a single, token arrest.
2) Nick Griffin making use of his inalienable rights of free speech to make pointed remarks about such instances, with no hints of inciting violence, secretly filmed, in a private meeting.
Or
3) A government without any evenhandedness which, when it loses a case in open court against Griffin - effectively TWICE - wants to make new laws to 'protect' us from - Griffin?
These questions can be framed in a variety of ways and it is difficult to get past a number of very disturbing matters. The only thing I do know is that these fools who rule us clearly desire a BNP government!

Red poppies on an important day..

This Blog holds no brief for those who embrace the white poppy as an alternative for Remembrance Day. It is an attempt to politicise a non-political issue. No alternative is required. Can we not, just for once, show some unity as a nation?
Of course, the liberal left and liberal Christians frequently unite 'to spit in the face' of the rest of us, so the answer is probably a resounding 'no'.
They always claim to be interested in 'people' - which the evidence clearly demonstrates to be false. Enormous amounts of honest folk who had to leave homes to fight a common foe and their concerned families are deeply insulted and hurt.
Two years ago today, November the 11th, I attended my Dad's funeral; an old soldier and I think on how deeply he would have been offended. He left too many friends and colleagues on the battlefields of France, Holland, the Ardennes and Germany.
The lefties must remember two things. It is essential that people are put before their utopian ideals and secondly, the decent should never be targets.
Were the Flanders Fields covered in white poppies or red? - Not white, eh? - Then have they not missed the point altogether?

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow,
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

LINK: http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/siteinfo/newsround/11nov.html Bogle: Green Fields of France.

The good side.

An Anglican friend recently took me to task regarding my frequent attacks on the C of E. It was not that he disagreed with any of the points made, quite the opposite in fact, but he did want me to point out that being a very broad church, there are some excellent sections where any evangelical Christian could not fail to feel at home.
I know that these exist. I know they are as good as stated but I feel that it can only be a matter of time before such groups will be driven to secede by the leadership and the infestation by so-called liberal Christians.



[Photo: Jim looking very anglican.]

A measly second.

This Blog has endeavoured to show our hapless Chancellor precisely where he is going wrong, that high taxation is not a Christian virtue and that this country always 'tops the world leagues' in areas which should be a shame and a humiliation for a modern, civilised nation.
News is in that the UK has been pipped in an important survey and are lying in second place to India. - Hmm! India, eh? That has you scratching your head.
Yes. Gordon has not yet managed to achieve top spot but is undoubtedly working on it. We have the second most complicated tax system on the planet.
Go for it Gordon. Try harder. We know you can get there!

Reverend Joe Wright's prayer, 1996.

The Reverend was asked to give the opening prayer at the Kansas Assembly. Many delegates - undoubtedly wracked with guilt - walked out. If that was the case then, what about now?

Heavenly Father, we come before you to ask your forgiveness. We seek your direction and your guidance. We know your word says, "Woe to those who call evil good." But that's what we've done. We've lost our spiritual equilibrium. We have inverted our values. We have ridiculed the absolute truth of your word in the name of moral pluralism. We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle. We've exploited the poor and called it a lottery. We've neglected the needy and called it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. In the name of choice, we have killed our unborn. In the name of right to life, we have killed abortionists. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it taxes. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, oh, God, and know our hearts today. Try us. Show us any wickedness within us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of the State of Kansas, and that they have been ordained by you to govern this great state. Grant them your wisdom to rule. May their decisions direct us to the center of your will. And, as we continue our prayer and as we come in out of the fog, give us clear minds to accomplish our goals as we begin this Legislature. For we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.

Pick on believers.

Politically correct officials have introduced parking charges outside a Church in Plymouth.
"So what? - Such thimgs happen." You may say.
BUT, the given reason was because not to do so would be "to discriminate against other faiths."
At this point you may feel liked emigrating to somewhere with more religious tolerance - How about Saudi Arabia?

Bilderberg Shadow Chancellor.

The Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has finally hit the big time. He recently trundled off to Ottawa to meet up with the highly sinister Bilderbergers.
This bodes ill for our nation if 'Dave' manages to win power. Surely it is a sign that his government would be starting to toe the EU line even more than the tories do at present - and to think many conservatives voted for him in the mistaken belief that he was more anti-EU than David Davis.
Remember too 'Dave's' promise to take his party out of the pro-EU grouping of conservatives in Brussels?
It seems he must have been 'economical with the truth', does it not?
Not too much Christians can cast a vote for there, is there?

Link: See posting for 18th of September.

Michael Nazir-Ali

The Bishop of Rochester is well known for talking sense.

The Church of England's only Asian bishop has criticised many Muslims in Britain for having a victim mentality.
The Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali, whose father converted from Islam, told The Sunday Times that he believed that some Muslims had a "dual psychology" in which they desired both "victimhood and domination".
He said: "Their complaint often boils down to the position that it is always right to intervene when Muslims are victims, as in Bosnia or Kosovo, and always wrong when the Muslims are the oppressors or terrorists, as with the Taliban or in Iraq.

Interesting.

The ultimate gimmick.

To put an ASBO in place takes a concerted effort, usually from the afflicted community working in tandem with Council and Police. The meetings and attention to endless detail are frightening and to achieve - or to fail to achieve - the imposition of an ASBO can cost thousands of pounds and take what seems an eternity to the local people who have been targeted and victimised by some couldn't-care-less yob.
Once in place the ASBO is seen as a badge of honour by the recipient and makes his/her mates quite envious; covetous even.
The aim of the system was to prevent the person being in situations where their type of offending occurred - so, an ASBO might be given stating that "You may not hang around on such and such a street corner." If they do stick to the order, they just find a new corner.
Common sense dictates that you therefore say "No street corners." Then come the legal objections. "Far too broad. Unfair to the hoodlum!"
Recent figures show that even after all these concessions, over 90% of orders are breached and that an incredibly minute 6% are jailed for breach. [Do remember that the original intention was "Breach and you go down." 100%. certain]
What an exercise in utter pointlessness. You have failed to prove to the young thug that their lifestyle is simply not worth it.
If our do-gooders and politicians are unwilling ever to punish - why not simply say:- "We have no desire to punish - ever. We despise the people who are enduring rampant crime. We don't care!"
Awful as all of this is from New Labour, consider the recent bilge from the Leader of the Opposition. No hope of punishments from that source. Lib Dems? - They are even more wet!
Once again. Are they all trying to push voters to the BNP?

The trouble is that JPs and Judges feel unhappy about jailing somebody "Just for standing on a street corner " - and even if they do get the point, chances are guidelines no longer allow it. Only 37% are currently jailed for committing an offence when subject to an ASBO!
The liberal left - don't you just adore 'em?

Credited, I believe to a Julia Howe.

ASBO, ASBO, little law,
How we wonder what you're for,
Chavs and yobs who love to fight
Terrorise us every night.
Toothless, useless, little law,
How we wonder what you're for.
On the streets with hoods and knives,
How they terrorise our lives,
Though they all should be in bed,
All you do is boost their cred'.
ASBO, ASBO, can't you see
You are an accessory.

ASBO, ASBO, little law,
How we wonder what you're for,
Words will never rule the street,
We need coppers on the beat.
Toothless, useless, little law,
How we wonder what you're for.

My total scorn.

The scorn I feel for liberal-left attitudes cannot be properly stated.They are a poison running through our society purporting to be a force for good. I recall that "Satan can show himself as an angel of light."
In Wood Green, their local vicar, Bob Green has cancelled the Remembrance Day Service as "it is not sufficiently multi-cultural." May shame be heaped upon this miserable curmudgeon.
When I think of the pain that this man is inflicting on so many people with his blinkered selfishness, I am extremely angry. When I think of the hurt he will have done to the very oldest in our society - who had to undergo a World War - I run beyond words.


I for one, shall remember them!

One step nearer dictatorship. Ikebana!

I thank Robin Page for these words of wisdom and concern over the totalitarian gagging of councillors:

"A ridiculous code of conduct was then introduced in 2001 - an exhaustive 22-page document covering everything from treating others with respect to declaring any gifts or hospitality worth £25 or more, it was aimed at controlling councillors what they could say and how they said it. It is a code that severely restricts free speech and debate. Previously a chairman would control councillors and the councillors themselves would have to declare if they had pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests. But under the new code virtually everything became a matterof' ‘prejudicial interest', which meant that if a councillor had previously expressed views on a subject outside the council he was prejudiced and therefore could not speak about it in council meetings. If he did, he would be reported to a monitoring officer, the local Standards Committee and then the Standards Board for England, an intimidating new London-based quango employing 100 staff and a team of ethical standards officers each paid £61,000 a year. It's a cross between Monty Python and a kangaroo court.This absurd, undemocratic and intimidating system, in which informers, commissars and quislings thrive, covers every parish council, district council, county council and unitary authority in England. It's not just an insult to the ideal of free speech, it causes anxiety and career-threatening consequences to those who simply say and do what they believe.This is, quite plainly, not a code of conduct but a Government gag. Ironically, the man who introduced this neo-Stalinist nonsense was that paragon of good behaviour, John Prescott, who is to democracy what Attila the Hun was to flower arranging. "

High taxation is not Christian.

If you listen to the liberal church you would be excused for thinking that high taxation is a a sound, moral way forward. It originates from trite, Robin Hood attitudes. Similarly, you will be asked to believe that the greater the state interference in life, the more just the government.
This is effectively what socialists and lib Dems tend to take as an article of faith and the area which Cameron's tories are now considering.
Unfortunately, this has a number of predictable effects. The state becomes the 'nanny state'. It encourages dependence and discourages the virtue of self-reliance. Ultimately, it makes society more unfair as many are pushed into becoming non contributors.
If governments were genuinely using the excess monies to help the genuinely needy and excellent social projects such as Health, it would be harder to attack but the records of successive governments in spending money badly and encouraging worthless bureaucracy are lamentable.
So rapacious is our present government that it extracted £145 BILLION more from the country last year - a figure beyond imagination. The proportion of national income going to line Treasury coffers is now more than 37% - way beyond even ultra high tax Germany.
Destroying competitiveness damages enterprise.Christians should not blithely assume that these levels of taxation are legitimate.
Is it the plutocrats who pay? Of course not. It is the ordinary person who works. The sting in the tail is that we are so propagandised that most people do not even see the depth of the injustice. Taxation is rising in the UK but worldwide, this is now beginning to be seen as a major social negative.

Christmas Present Problem - Solved!

The lurid thriller designed to be given to non-Christians!
[ My Minister's wife said it should be made into a film!]


LINK TO AMAZON:-

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How to create BNP voters.

What really gets most people about political correctness is the double standards. We have seen this week how a judge who was sentencing in a murder case did not add to the sentence given on the grounds of the crime being racially motivated. The perpetrator was from an ethnic minority and had murdered somebody white. He referred to the victim's colour and race twice during the act and yet this evil deed was deemed not to be racially motivated.
Had it been the other way round, with a fraction of the evidence, the outcome would have been in no doubt - and I know - I did the magistrates' training!
Meanwhile, at Millais school, Christian girls have been banned from wearing 'chastity rings' as this goes against the school policy on wearing jewellery. Fine but for one small fact. Sikh girls have been allowed to wear kara bracelets which in similar fashion to the rings represent 'restraint from doing evil'.
If these appalling people want to wreck peaceful coexistence between communities, it is hard to find ways of creating more resentment than they are doing. Are the politically correct BNP infiltrators in deep disguise? - I sometimes wonder!

Climate change information.

The United Nations' Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has recently pointed out that the United Kingdom's Hadley Centre has over-estimated the likely effects of climate change by two-thirds. As this is not revealed to the general public, we can only conclude that we are being deliberately misled.

I have no comment to add.


LINK: http://www.ipcc.ch/

1 Corinthians 7 verse 5.

If there is one thing we all know as an absolute fact, it is that Christians are against sex. Everybody says so! Many think that Christians believe that it is only for the procreation of children - I do not know which Pope was responsible for that unscriptural idea! It has certainly fuelled the propagandists' cause.
The trouble is that this is really just one more 'urban myth' - and one which has been deliberately used by the enemies of the Church.
In The Old Testament we have one of the more erotic pieces of literature from the ancient world. It is called 'The Song of Solomon (or Songs).'
In 1 Corinthians, Paul speaks of sex and marriage and goes on to explain how each should 'fulfil their marital duty'. This is about SEX. But he does not leave it there, he goes on to say "Do not deprive each other....." He is talking about SEX. Read the context .And, he does NOT mean occasionally!
So do Christians oppose sex? They do BUT only out-of -context sex. The correct context is within marriage, which for the modernists who do not understand, is between one man and one woman.

Adopt this approach and it would cause a few social problems, BUT it would eliminate MILLIONS.

Propaganda from the BBC.

Evangelical extremists murdering Muslims? - Why, it must be the BBC. It must be "Spooks" again.

Right in one!

Taxed til the pips squeak.

We always top the league tables the people do not want us to top . Whether this be on alcohol abuse, drug use, teenage pregnancies, crime, illegal immigration,there we are, looking down at all those nations less successful in climbing leagues than we are. Our Chancellor of the Exchequer will not care one jot that we now top the league for the highest taxation of property owners in the world. We pay 64% more than the French and 7 (YES SEVEN) times more than German homeowners.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development recently released these interesting stats.
With Gordon Brown it is "Every one a winner!"
You will be happy to know that it costs 70% more in Gordon's New Labour paradise to live in your own home than the world average.
"Well maybe they have higher taxation across the board on other things." - Wanna bet?

LINK: OECD. http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Remember the Lib Dems? They are the ones whose think tank came up with the idea of the 1% p.a. Council Tax on house values so that Gordon's rip off can be effectively doubled. Do you recall that politicians are supposed to be "the servants of the people?" - I wonder where that went wrong!