Nigel Says ...

Nigel Farage claimed three countries were beginning to “fracture” from EU unity noting "comments" from Lithuania, Poland and Hungary. The former Ukip leader and Vice-Chairman of Leave Means Leave rejected claims the EU was standing united over the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Mr Farage also claimed the one option “looming larger” for the UK was Britain walking away from the European Union on WTO terms. Express.

Oh, Dear! - The Arrogant, Simplistic Thought Processes of Atheism.

Mr Loftus, you have not had my thousands of experiences of Jesus. But, as you are clearly 'right by default' - presumably because you pontificate so well - you must conclude that all such experiences must be false. The product of an overactive imagination, perhaps?

Consequently, I must be: fanatical, ignorant, unscientific, a believer in a flat earth, unhinged - or simply a liar. A series of non sequiturs.

You do not know me and my experiences and yet you judge them to be false. Little wonder then, that I must call you 'arrogant', is there? For that fact I truly do have evidence. 

May God bless you.

Persecution of Christians To Increase Further In 2019.

RADIO REPORTS – CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION SET TO RISE IN 2019

James Maidment Fullard interviewed Andrew Boyd of Release for Trans World Radio:

Nigeria, India and China are countries where Christians face increased persecution in the coming year, according to Release International. The warning comes as Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt insists the UK must do more to help persecuted Christians around the world.

This Christmas, militants attacked Christians in Nigeria; a planned attack was foiled in Karachi, Pakistan, and security was tightened around churches in Egypt ahead of the Coptic Christmas.

Partners of UK-based Release say persecution is rising and warn the trend is set to continue into 2019.

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Ebola.

Birdies.

Remoaners Promote Dictatorship. THEY LOST!

Mr L Brook, Rosewood Court, Rothwell. 

CITIZENS were given a referendum to decide whether we leave or stay as a United States of Europe. The consequences of either staying or leaving could not be known by anyone, only speculation or opinion. The democratic vote was to leave. So far so good. However those in Government did not disclose that many of them would only accept a Remain outcome.
To further complicate the total deception, some of the Opposition parties were only concerned to use the occasion to force a General Election by preventing anything being done. So, the rest of the world sees us as a pantomime as our idiotic discussions continue. The saddest part is that we have shown that individual votes are overthrown by the wishes of those in power, and this – in my dictionary – is a dictatorship.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-democracy-undermined-by-brexit-pantomime-1-9569223

We Were All Hell-Bound But When We Accept Jesus's Sacrifice for Us - We Can Be Saved From That Fate.

Ever Visit Kingston-upon-Hull?

Restaurant review: Fish and Chip Kitchen, Hull.

The portions are generous at The Fish and Chip Kitchen in Hull. 

Sign up It’s Hull’s signature dish, so time to celebrate says Dave Lee as the city gets a restaurant dedicated to the pattie.  You would have every right to expect that with Hull once being a major fishing port it would have more than its fair share of places to eat fish. Certainly it has plenty of chippies, but there are surprisingly few restaurants dedicated to what used to be the city’s entire raison d’être. You can get fish and chips in pubs and bars, obviously, and there are a couple of fish and seafood eateries but since much-lamented fish restaurant The Gainsborough closed in the early 90s there hasn’t been anywhere – like the Magpie in Whitby – that you can sit down, have fish and chips and mushy peas on a plate and pay twice as much as you would from the chippy just to pretend that you’re posh. The fact is that there never really was. In the old days, fish was a commodity; it was landed and left the city to be sold elsewhere for profit and so restaurants couldn’t be guaranteed a supply if the catch was landed light. Consequently, three things happened – infrequent supply meant that fish restaurants didn’t prosper; secondly, Hull folk got used to eating the fish that had been caught first on a trawling trip and was therefore oldest, worth the least and had developed the strongest flavour (many Hullensians still complain that fresh-caught fish doesn’t taste of anything) and, lastly, chip shop owners bereft of fish had to create something to sell to customers. This led to the invention of Hull’s greatest single contribution to the culinary world – the pattie. More (much more) of this later. ADVERTISING Enough social history. Why am I telling you all this? Well, within a couple of weeks, two new sit-down fish and chip restaurants have opened in Hull. One is part of a Southern-based chain; the other is the Fish & Chip Kitchen on Princes Avenue. It’s the latest venture from Hull restaurateur Alonzo Goulbourne, who also set up Jamaican restaurant Roots and Aunt Bibby’s which, while being one of those ubiquitous smokehouse places, serves the best ribs in the area. PEUGEOT 2008 SUV Strong SUV styling; practical & spacious; an intuitive drive & excellent specification. Promoted by Peugeot 2008 Alonzo has taken an old off-licence, given it a very Hull/fishing-themed interior and is offering fish, chips, mushy peas, thick sliced bread and a couple of alternatives dishes like pies and scampi. There are also some well-selected beers and a full cocktail menu. It’s all reasonably priced (cheaper than eating in a decent pub) and – this is the best word for it – proper. Proper batter, proper chips and proper made-from-dried mushy peas. I know it’s proper because I took my secret weapon along with me – my mother. After eighty-odd years of eating and making fish and chips, my mam knows when they’re proper. Her starter of mushy pea fritters was sampled and approved with great enthusiasm, as was the main of haddock and chips. The portions are generous and every element of the dishes was as well made as you’ll get anywhere, she was happy to confirm in between belts of Chardonnay. I’m glad I took her to sample the rest of the menu because, I must confess, I indulged in a pattie overload. [I should explain, for those unfamiliar, exactly what a pattie is. It’s mashed tatty and chopped sage, battered and deep fried. And that’s it. It’s simple, cheap, filling and utterly glorious. Like Middlesbrough’s Parmo or Scouse in Liverpool, the pattie is the food of the people of one city. Unlike those dishes, it’s entirely unknown and unavailable outside its place of birth. Admit it, unless you’re from Hull, you’d never heard of them, had you? Yet generations here have been raised on them. Personally, I’ve been eating them for the best part of five decades and I’m unashamed in proclaiming them the finest food on Earth. For starters, I had Mini Medley Patties, which was three micro patties with wildly experimental fillings. Well, actually, one had corned beef, one had cheese and one was a normal pattie, but for a pattie traditionalist like me it was like entering a crazy parallel dimension where rules are only made for breaking. For mains, I played it safe and ordered what most Hull people will tell you is their city represented in bread – a pattie butty. It’s a pattie in a breadcake and it’s the single most sold item in every chippy within a five-mile radius. I prefer mine with plenty of chip spice (another Hull invention which is, controversially, banned in this restaurant) and very liberally doused in vinegar. Some prefer less vinegar, but they’re wrong. It was as fine an example of the dish as I’ve ever tasted, and I’ve had thousands. Literally, thousands. My mother used to be a pattie slapper (no giggling at the back), one of the brave women who used to make patties by hand in the days before the process was mechanised, and she confirmed it was a bone fide ’Ull pattie. The Fish & Chip Kitchen had passed the test on every single level and I heartily recommend it to you. I must also apologise for turning this review into what basically amounts to an extended homage to the pattie, but with City of Culture coming the people of Hull need to start shouting about what makes them unique. This includes their cuisine and the pattie is the only thing that Hull has that nowhere else does. That it is also a sublime invention is a huge bonus. • The Fish and Chip Kitchen, 78 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QJ. Open daily, 12-11pm. 01482 440400, www.thefishandchipkitchen.co.uk

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/restaurant-review-fish-and-chip-kitchen-hull-1-7474468

Blogger's Note:

I was singularly unimpressed on my visit to The Magpie in Whitby - The Fisherman's Wife as a venue seems superior in every way, IMHO.

If seeking sustenance of the fishy kind in Sheffield, Frymaster on Attercliffe Rd - which opens lunchtimes only - is a tremendous site to know. It is a fish restaurant with attached chippy. The best all round value I have ever encountered.

If you want the posh restaurant experience - Whitby's in Catcliffe takes some beating.

In Scarborough, I am yet to find the kind of quality I am seeking.

All a bit random, I know - still, I do have many readers in both South and East Yorkshire.

The Most Persecuted Christians Are In ...

HELP THE WORLD’S MOST PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SURVIVE

Christians in North Korea risk being killed if their secret faith is discovered. But they also face another danger: hunger. One believer says, during one of the regular food shortages in North Korea, “The government gave us advice to go into the mountains, pluck grass and make soup with some salt.” Her mother and brother died of starvation.

Your faithful prayers and gifts are enabling Open Doors underground workers to keep 60,000 secret believers alive in North Korea by smuggling in food and other aid.

But it isn’t only North Korea where our persecuted church family needs help to survive. Will you give a gift to support our brothers and sisters in North Korea and the other countries in the top ten on the World Watch List, where Christians face the most extreme persecution?

• Every £59 could provide a monthly relief pack to keep a North Korean family alive during the freezing winter. This could include food, medicines, winter clothes, boots and blankets.
• Every £33 could provide access to education and vocational skills for a Christian woman living in a country we can’t name where believers face extreme persecution.

Birdie.

Some Popes Had Some Sort of Grasp of Scripture!

In favour of the death penalty

It's in the Bible

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed

Genesis 9:6

Old Testament

The death penalty is consistent with Old Testament Biblical teaching, and suggests that God created the death penalty.

In total, the Old Testament specifies 36 capital offences including crimes such as idolatry, magic and blasphemy, as well as murder.

But many Christians don't think that is a convincing argument - they say that there are 35 capital offences, in addition to murder, described in the Old Testament. As these are no longer capital offences, Christians say it is inconsistent to preserve murder alone as a capital crime.

New Testament

The New Testament embodies what must be the most famous execution in history, that of Jesus on the cross. But paradoxically, although the tone of the whole of the New Testament is one of forgiveness, it seems to take the right of the state to execute offenders for granted.

• In Matthew 7:2 we read "Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you", though this is unspecific as to whether it is God who is doing the dealing, or the state.
• In Matthew 15:4 Jesus says "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die".
• Despite the fact that Jesus himself refrains from using violence, he at no point denies the state's authority to exact capital punishment.
• At the moment that Pilate has to decide whether or not to crucify Jesus, Jesus tells him that the power to make this decision has been given to him by God. (John 19:11).
• Paul has an apparent reference to the death penalty, when he writes that the magistrate who holds authority "does not bear the sword in vain; for he is the servant of God to execute His wrath on the wrongdoer" (Romans 13:4).
• Capital punishment affirms the commandment that 'thou shalt not kill' by affirming the seriousness of the crime of murder.

This argument is based on interpreting the commandment as meaning "thou shalt not murder", but some Christians argue that the 'Thou shalt not kill' commandment is an absolute prohibition on killing.

God authorises the death penalty

Christians who support the death penalty often do so on the ground that the state acts not on its own authority but as the agent of God, who does have legal power over life and death.

This argument is well expressed by St Augustine, who wrote:

The same divine law which forbids the killing of a human being allows certain exceptions, as when God authorises killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Since the agent of authority is but a sword in the hand, and is not responsible for the killing, it is in no way contrary to the commandment, 'Thou shalt not kill' to wage war at God's bidding, or for the representatives of the State's authority to put criminals to death, according to law or the rule of rational justice.

Augustine, The City of God

Capital punishment is like suicide

This argument is that the criminal, by choosing to commit a particular crime has also chosen to surrender his life to the state if caught.

Even when there is question of the execution of a condemned man, the State does not dispose of the individual's right to life. In this case it is reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned person of the enjoyment of life in expiation of his crime when, by his crime, he has already dispossessed himself of his right to life.

Pope Pius XII

BBC.

God's Promises.

Hmm. What Would Have Happened If Lineker Had Done The Same But Pro-Brexit, Huh? - I Think You KNOW!

Fury as BBC refuses to sack Gary Lineker over anti-Brexit rants

THE BBC has refused to say how many complaints it has received from licence fee-payers angered at Left-leaning Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker's frequent anti- Brexit rants.

By GILES SHELDRICK

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1082381/BBC-refuse-to-sack-Gary-Lineker-anti-brexit-rant-twitter

Brussels Weakening?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1082499/brexit-news-irish-border-backstop-northern-ireland-martin-selmayr-theresa-may

Er ... Yes, Boris.

Is this June election talk a ploy to scare MPs into backing Theresa May's appalling deal?

BORIS JOHNSON.

BBC Bias Is Seldom In What They Report But Far More In The News They Willfully Ignore!

BBC BIAS: Farage has BRILLIANT response after BBC fails to broadcast his Brexit speech. Express.

Church In N. Korean Labour Camp.

https://www.opendoorsuk.org/news/stories/north-korea-190118/

Birdie.

But Never Vengeance!

Referenda?

Andrew Mercer, Guiseley. 
SHOULD we not be given a referendum on whether we should hold another referendum?

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-scarcity-of-food-from-abroad-could-benefit-british-farmers-1-9569216

False Prophets: We Now Probably Have More Than In Any Period In History.

Why Would Anyone Be Surprised?

Pew: People who attend church are happier than those who don't

BY LEAH MARIEANN KLETT

Those who identify with a religious group and regularly attend worship services tend to be happier and more civically engaged than those who do not, a new Pew Research Center survey has found. CP.