A poem.

Musings of a Happy Has-Been

I am old; I live in the past of farm cottages and cart horses,
Of two mile walks to school and the strap for being two minutes late.
I live in the past when lawbreakers were punished and not excused,
When the local policeman kept law and order by ignoring judges rules.
I live in the past of air raid sirens and long dead regimental friends.
I am alive, but do not live in the boring present of drug abuse,
Of unpunished crime, overpaid footballers,and luxury in prison cells,
Of uncontrolled youth whom no-one dares to challenge.
I am bored by the present; of rule by alien politicians
And pop singers and soap actors who are called heroes.
I am bored by the present stupid phrases, E-mail, and the Internet.
What of the future, shall I live in the future?
No, it terrifies me.

Donald Arnott. [1924- 2004.]

A vengeful God?

How could an atheist or poorly educated {and most people today are!} non-believer possibly grasp that the 'God of the Old Testament' and 'The God of the New' are the same person if they have never studied the Scriptures in an unblinkered fashion?
Professor Dawkins is always most ready and willing to speak disparagingly of "the vengeful God of the OT."
I could point out to him that in Exodus 20, The Commandments unsurprisingly point out that God must be regarded as Holy - and suggest that there is nothing in the universe more important, nor could there be.
The ever sad Dawkins merely interprets this as hubris and vanity and is unable grasp the logic of the point.
With imperfect humanity - it would be as he claims. With an omnipotent Creator - different rules apply. If Christians are right about the existence of the Judaeo-Christian Supreme Being, then our position as to the nature of God makes perfect sense and his does not.
The problem here is that the likes of Dawkins will simply divert the argument and will point out that God advocated the 'butchering' of whole tribes without ever grasping the context.
Might I suggest to readers that if ever confronted with this type of argument, it may be countered by pointing out that the idolatry of these peoples was also linked heavily to child sacrifice.

It is not a particularly theological argument but one which might be much better accepted by non-believers in our modern age.

Photo: tomb of the type which might have contained the bodies of child sacrifices.

Archaeologists have also found 'jar burials' in Israel.

The entombed bones are from a site in modern Syria.

Where did Brown & Blair get it all from?

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI - devious, Italian philosopher, statesman, diplomatist and writer(1469 - 1527)

The anti Christian EU.

Once again the European Union can be trusted to demontrate its untrustworthiness.
Christians are being bullied and are being instructed as to what we may believe and what we may not!
There is a new proposed European Directive which is rapidly in the process of going through the various stages of the European Parliament. This proposed Anti-Discrimination Directive prohibits discrimination and harassment on the grounds of disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief.
Sound okay, does it?
There are lessons to be derived from the EU’s Employment Discrimination Directive. It might be thought that the Directive would enhance religious liberty. However, the implementation of the 2000 Employment Discrimination Directive has given cause for concern. As a result of the Directive, a Bishop of the English national Church was successfully sued by a homosexual after not being given a position as a youth minister. A British Christian charity was successfully sued for refusing to promote an atheist support worker.

Removal of Rights of Conscience?
The new Directive could remove rights of conscience for those whose religious beliefs prevent them endorsing certain homosexual and religious practices. A Christian architect should not be required to design a mosque. A Christian publication should not be required to advertise material promoting homosexual activity.

And much, much more!

LINK: http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=683

This blog is guaranteed to be 100%, 24 carat, anti-EU.

Attenborough.

Attenborough can now no longer be taken seriously. 'By quoting Genesis 1, he accuses the Bible of being responsible for all the pollution and environmental damage in the world. Such were his comments, as reported in The Independent.'

Apparently, his plain lack of understanding of the word 'dominion' means that this atheist, from a family of atheists, can no longer be treated as a dispassionate observer, if indeed he ever could. He is an aggressive atheist with a totally anti-God agenda

Two major points:

1] Why has he consistently refused to debate with creationists who have scientific doctorates if he is so sure of his ground? Is he NOT confident of being able to make them look silly? Running scared is the only possible interpretation.

2] Why is it that he so often quotes evolution as a fact in his many TV series and NEVER attempts to justify or prove any of the things stated? Why is he permitted, unchallenged, to make so many assertions to the viewing public which have long been discredited?

Photo: Attenborough is the one on the right!

BMI - baby out with bathwater?

'Pilots at BMI are voting on a motion of no confidence in chief executive Nigel Turner following a furious bust-up over pay. The influential British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) said in a statement it is considering legal action after claiming the carrier reneged on an agreement to raise salaries.'

BMI reneging on a promise? - Surely not?!

[See posting January 29th!]

LINK: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=472795

The insanity keeps on and on.

'Top universities are being advised to ignore the new A* grade A-level on application forms – to avoid recruiting more pupils from middle-class backgrounds.'

When the left were claiming to support the rise of the 'meritocracy' in their anti grammar school campaigns - it was just hot air.

The abolition of grammar schools removed the best way forward for working class children and ever since they have had to try everything short of restoration to repair the disastrous consequences of their idealistic bitterness.

So now, those with best results must take a backward step because of the class they happen to come from.

Pure evil!

Support CAPC.

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Against_Political_Correctness

The Great Commission - a Christian must.

"My faith is a very private thing."

Sorry! - Not allowed!

Matthew 28:19-20 states what has come to be called the “Great Commission”: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Jesus gave this command to the Apostles shortly before He ascended into Heaven.

Keeping this 'privacy' sacrosanct, means that Christians are not loving their neighbours; all those people condemned to a lost eternity.

The essential difference between evangelical Christianity and liberal christianity is that the former cares about those who do not know how to access salvation; the latter prefer to put their trust in man and categorically refuse to worry because they falsely believe that "God will not condemn anybody."
Only one problem - The Scriptures are about God the Son DYING to save any of mankind who are tuly repentant and commit to Him. It is made abundantly clear that failing to take this route leads to hell.
Liberal christians may 'care' but not where it really matters!

Sea ice UNchanges.

BACK TO 1979 LEVELS FOR SEA ICE, as reported in Daily Tech, 1 Jan 2009. Since 1979 scientists have been observing the changes in sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic regions using satellite images.
With each seasonal cycle millions of square kilometres of this ice melt and reform, but the scientists use a calculation named the “mean ice anomaly” to follow the overall trend. This is the “seasonally-adjusted difference between the current value and the average from 1979-2000”. At the end of 2008 the anomaly was just under zero, i.e. the sea ice was about the same as it was in 1979. The University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center has produced a graph of the global sea ice area and the sea ice anomaly for 1979-2008 showing the anomaly has risen and fallen many times over the 29 years of records. The latest rapid increase in ice defied recent predictions that the Arctic sea ice would soon completely melt.

What comment could I possibly make?

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What? New Scientist rains on Darwin's parade now?

Shocking stuff. Having listened to so much 'adoration of the Darwin' in recent months - I had naturally selected much material 'to prove his greatness'. And now this comes along!
Can they mean that he wasn't perfect after all? - Just one more dis-proof of his hypotheses out of hundreds.

DARWIN WAS WRONG ABOUT TREE OF LIFE, according to the front cover and feature article in New Scientist, 21 Jan 2009, p34-39. Ever since Darwin drew a spiky diagram of a branching pattern in one of his notebooks, and then included a much neater tree in “On theOrigin of Species,” evolutionary biologists have depicted all life on earth as one great tree beginning from a single cell whichgave rise to several basic multi-cellular body plans, which then divided into more and more specialised organisms. It was a goodmetaphor for the basic tenet of evolution – descent from a common ancestor. Numerous attempts have been made to draw up thedefinitive tree of life that shows where branches occurred, and which species gave rise to others along the branch. However, allhave failed. Genome sequencing which should have been able to show clearly which organisms arose from which, has also failed toproduce a tree-like pattern, but instead has produced a scattered pattern because common genes are found in organisms on widelyseparated branches of the tree, and other genes seem to have disappeared and reappeared as a branch grew. For example: biologistMichael Syvanen of the University of California, Davis, recently compared 2000 genes that are common to humans, frogs, sea squirts,sea urchins, fruit flies and nematodes, with the aim of drawing up a tree. It didn’t work. Different genes gave different trees.

Evidence News.

Global what?

I suspect that the 'global warmers' will not have had a particularly good winter. The propaganda battle has not gone well.

The public has found out that global temperatures have actually dropped over the last ten years; there has been snow in Vegas (!); we had an extended cold snap in December; snow at the end of October and now, the worst weather conditions for 18 years!

Oh no! What if the ovine public were to actually think about all of this?

Well. Phew. They are probably safe - education has done its worst to remove all evidence of true thought over the last 30+ years - most people will not even have spotted the massive contradictions!

Wait til they wheel out the next expert to talk about this. I can hear them now: "Ah well. You see, these weather conditions actually fit the pattern."

AAAGHHHH!

Jansenism.

Cornelius Otto Jansen was a Roman Catholic thinker whose writings were embraced by many believers post Council of Trent.

His teachings which were heavily into the concept of predestination led people to believe that humans are predetermined by God into salvation or damnation.

The relevant scriptural texts if interpreted as the 'foreknowledge of God' rather than the 'predestination of God' leave room for the concepts of freewill and salvation.

Sadly, Jansen would not have agreed - nor would John Calvin have been exactly sympathetic within protestantism!

(The belief system was heavily attacked by L'Abbé Prévost in his novel " L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" on which the famous opera is based.)

Bel Mooney.

Bel Mooney always used to seem such a liberal leftie. Bit by bit she is improving as this link shows.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1134441/BEL-MOONEY-Why-Left-hate-family-Liberals-ignore-new-findings-children-growing-mother-father-fare-best.html

We cannot go on like this.

My spies have been out and about in Sheffield and I have received information from a secret source that at a certain state school, and in a particular class, there is just one pupil who is English and who speaks English.
It is quite conceivable that this is only the tip of a huge iceberg. The social damage of uncontrolled immigration is incalculable.
It is NOT just happening in Slough.

Whatever happened to geography?

The complaints over the years about what school History syllabuses have left out have been many and justified.

Few however, mention Geography, a subject which has been totally emasculated at the same time in the 'dumbing down era' which has sought to ensure that youngsters have little usable knowledge about the world they inhabit.

The absence of knowledge of locations - cities, mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, oceans, countries and even continents is lamentable.

The syllabuses are not necessarily attackable for what they include as much as for what they leave out.

[All of this goes back to that time - and it remains with us - when educationists have lamely insisted that "memory is not a true part of education."]

Uncooperative?

A SIMPLE LESSON IN ECONOMICS.

Ask yourself a simple question. If you were to rank the following supermarkets in order of preference, how many readers would put the Coop in one of the top two or three places? - Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Waitrose, ASDA & The Cooperative Wholesale Society? The number of readers who do put the Coop in a lofty position will certainly be few.

The other supermarkets are different; quality is generally better, there is more choice and variety of goods and most tend to be cheaper. Strange really, as when I was a lad, the Coop had a virtual monopoly in the three areas where I lived. Today, it can hardly cope with ALDI, NETTO and LIDL. A fair few Coop stores have closed down.The point is of course, that the 'wicked capitalists' have done a much better job for the consumer than has the good, Rochdale socialism of the Coop.

I rather wonder whether the dyed-in-the-wool socialists have sold out and use these bastions of the free market or whether they stick to their principles and do the weekly shop 'down the Coop'.

What do you think?

Aaagh!

A nurse has been suspended from her job for offering to pray for an elderly patient's recovery from illness!

LINKS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4409168/Nurse-suspended-for-offering-to-pray-for-patients-recovery.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1134463/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Christians-havent-got-prayer-diversity-Britain-.html

Egging on the health fascists.

New reports are now saying that eating more than 3 eggs a week apparently does not cause: impotence, nervous dyspepsia, imbecility, heart attacks, strokes, male pattern baldness, infertility, moral degeneracy, piles, lumbago, the wibbly-wobblies, creeping lurgi, world wars and ingrowing toenails.

Strange that. The health fascists had looked to have been onto a real winner up to this point. Four decades-worth of listening to pseudo-science and we all fell for it - as usual!

[Remember when Woody Allen woke up many years into the future in 'Sleeper' to discover that the new 'health food' was cream cakes?]

PS. I had mine scrambled this morning.

PPS. I have gone back to butter too.

Now I remember.

Now I remember why I began publishing this Blog in the first place.

I was so heartily sickened by the torrents of leftwingers on the radio purporting to be Christian and advocating a social, or worse, a multifaith 'gospel'. Over nearly three years I hope that I have proved that indeed, 'Christianityisnotleftwing'.

In the last couple of weeks, I have been horrified by the amount of lefties given a platform whose links to genuine Christianity are tenuous to say the least.

That is not to say that true Christians from a variety of denominations do not get some cover but they always seem to get rather swamped!

Another way of looking at a difficult issue.

If somebody who loves and cares for you gives you a beautiful bouquet of flowers, you are grateful and enjoy all aspects of their colour, form and perfume.

Flowers fade, however and eventually die.

If you are like me, you take out the ones which begin to die off first so that you can maximise the beauty which remains in the bunch.

Sadly, the remaining flowers will have to be cast aside and binned as they too start to die off.

You do not leave the half dead flowers in the vase until they have all totally withered away!

Nor does the fact that you eventually throw them out mean that you have been in any way unappreciative of a fine gift. When you do dump them, this is not a metaphorical slap in the face to the giver.

Yet many Christians however, seem to use this very argument against voluntary euthanasia.

As a Christian, this issue troubles me deeply and I do not find the simplistic 'no, nay, never' of the Roman Church at all helpful.