Judge Tremberg Could Have Sentenced Both Men To 14 Years. ('Timely' Guilty Pleas Apart.) - Why Was The Maximum Not Imposed For This Most Heinous of Behaviour?

 https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/03/father-jailed-after-crash-from-100mph-motorway-race-killed-his-s/

The Great Commission: We Have An Obligation To 'Take The Light' To All.

 

Any Christians Voting For Biden. How?

Biden did worse than Hillary Clinton with evangelicals in 2020, poll shows

Joe Biden fared worse in getting white evangelical Christian voter support than the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, according to an Election Day poll sponsored by a conservative Christian grassroots organisation. CP.

Odd. No Mention of 'Hate Crime.'

Black Lives Matter protestor, 19, faces jail after admitting trying to set fire to Union Flag on Whitehall Cenotaph

Astrophel Sang was arrested after footage emerged on social media of him twice attempting to use a lighter to set the flag alight in Whitehall on June 7. Mail.

You Cannot, Indeed Must Not, Ignore Your Need To Be Saved From A Godless Eternity.

I Still Am Yet To Hear Whether Or Not This Was Classed As A Hate Crime. If Not - The Term Is Worse Than Meaningless.

 Farage on London Church Attack: ‘We Are a Christian Country and Our Culture Is Under Assault’.

@CrimeLdn via Twitter

JACK MONTGOMERY

 19 Oct 2020. Breitbart.

3:52

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has weighed in on the viral video of a man ripping down the cross on a London church in broad daylight, warning Britain’s Christian culture is “under assault”.

The video shows the cross on the Chadwell Heath Baptist Church in east London being hauled down by a young man making no attempt to conceal his identity, despite the widespread acceptance of people wearing masks in public and the presence of several witnesses.

The Metropolitan Police say the fallen cross has been recovered and a male was arrested at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage. No mention was made of pursuing religiously-aggravated hate crime charges.

“We are a Christian country and our culture is under assault,” commented Farage, sharing the video on social media.

“Our archbishops are complaining about Brexit yet say nothing about the desecration of a London church,” he added.

Nigeria: No Good Place To Be A Christian.

30 Bible translation projects suspended in Nigeria amid pandemic, terrorism

BY SAMUEL SMITH

Nigerian Bible translators are seeking help after having to suspend translation projects in 30 languages due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing terrorist violence throughout the country. 

Christian Post.

Cliff 2008.

 'The 67-year-old singer has spoken for the first time about his close relationship with a former Roman Catholic priest, and calls on the Church of England to approve same-sex marriages.' The Independent 2008..

Blogger: So I suppose that on Judgement Day, Cliff will need to explain to God why He was so wrong.

I don't envy him being on that side of the conversation!

Annie Dillard 'Explains' Evolution: The Blogger Shows She Is Wrong.

 "Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me ... We are moral creatures then in an amoral world.

The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die - does not care if itself grinds to a halt."

Blogger: the contradictions here are legion. The first sentence and the last simply contradict each other. Loving death and not caring about death are opposites.

Love? How can such an emotion exist within this framework - whether it be the negative love described or the positive love which almost all will have experienced in some fashion?

What of spiritual love? What of the numinous? What of self sacrifice? What of empathy? - It is no use to pretend that these things can emerge out of this crass nihilism. 

What of agape? What of philos? The atheist must inevitably proclaim that these are mere 'tools of evolution' but just how illogical is this?

Evolution is an essentially negative concept, typically dismissing any Creator out of hand, and on a whim, whilst attempting to construct a building on these shifting sands.

The impossibility of morality emerging from immorality contradicts every single thing we know empirically.

"I know that God does not exist" is both dishonest and bordering insanity. God is 100% impossible to disprove. 

In the highly improbable situation that you possess 0.001% of all the knowledge in the universe - that still leaves 99.999% for God to be found in.

The thing is, that for those of us who have searched honestly for God - using the criteria He has given us - we can encounter Him in considerably less than the 0.001%. Our meeting with Him is a reality - and not an opinion. He suffuses every aspect of our lives.

We have to suffer the arrogance of atheists who proclaim what it is impossible to either prove or know. It is mere opinion.

Actually meeting up with God is no opinion at all. It is a reality which so many of the most intelligent cannot experience because of their arrogance and lack of humility.

Race Determines Identity? - Oh, Dear!

 

Biden Win Bad For UK.

 If Biden wins UK will suffer badly - and it will be entirely because of REMAINERS

IF Joe Biden sneaks a win in this messiest of US elections Britain will face terrible economic damage. Here's why:

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1356182/Brexit-US-election-updates-results-polls-donald-trump-joe-biden-who-won-election-2020

Birdie.

 

A Fifteen Year Sentence Would Barely Have Been Adequate. (And that is making allowance for Carley's age.)

 Mother of 12-year-old rape victim blasts judges after teenager who got her daughter pregnant in woods has four-and-a-half-year jail sentence slashed on appeal

Jordan Carley was 16 when he raped his 12-year-old victim in woodland in Corby, Northamptonshire. Now 20, the rapist will be eligible for parole in May. Mail.

Nigerian Genocide of Believers.

NIGERIA KILLINGS – GENOCIDE WARNING AS MILITANTS EMPLOY NEW WEAPONS TO DRIVE OUT CHRISTIANS

02 Nov 2020

Hear Release Nigeria partner Hassan John live online this week (Nov 2 – Nov 5).

Nigeria analysis: Release partner, journalist and church leader Hassan John. Picture Andrew Boyd

Release International partners in Nigeria warn of a genocide-in-the-making. They say the West is turning a blind eye to the slaughter of Christians for fear of being labelled Islamophobic.

As attacks continue unabated against Christian villages in Nigeria’s North and Middle Belts, a partner of UK-based Release International believes the violence has the hallmarks of an undeclared jihad.

Rev Hassan John, a Nigerian journalist, analyst and partner of Release, is speaking at live conference events from November 2 – 5 on Violent Christian Persecution in Nigeria. The November 5 event will be live-streamed for public viewing. Details are available from the Release International website.

Jihad

Heavily armed Fulani militants have been driving out Christian villagers in what some fear is a revival of the Fulani jihad of the 1800s.

But a major difference today is the use of deadly assault rifles and machine guns.

And the latest weapon in the militants’ armoury is a chemical to accelerate the burning down of Christian villages, according to Hassan John, a partner of Release International, which supports persecuted Christians around the world.

‘They are using the chemical in petrol bombs,’ he says. ‘We are in the middle of the rainy season now, but this burns even in the rain, and when they throw it into the building it burns right down to the cement.’

Rev Hassan John, who works with Release to provide aid to attack victims, has seen evidence of this chemical in use. ‘It doesn’t just burn the metal roofing, it peels away the plaster on the buildings.’

He believes the ongoing attacks are part of an undeclared jihad against Christians in Nigeria.

‘There is a history of jihad and conquest. We see the same modus operandi as in the jihadi conquest of the 1800s playing out all over again.’

Scale of violence

The scale of the attacks is alarming.

• According to Genocide Watch, more than 5,100 Nigerians were killed in violent attacks in less than a year
• The NGO Intersociety estimates: ‘a daily average of about five Christian deaths’
• In 2019, Intersociety calculates between 1,000 and 1,200 Christians were killed by Fulani militias, and
• According to The Global Terrorism Index (2019) Fulani militants killed more than 2,000 in 2018 alone – making them six times deadlier than Boko Haram terrorists

Evidence of a religious dimension to the violence includes the targeting of pastors and churches, and the renaming of captured villages with Islamic names.

Yet the West, Hassan John believes, is turning a blind eye to the religious dimension for fear of being labeled Islamophobic.

‘Blind eye’

‘In the West, people are weary of any conflict that has to do with religion, that mentions Islam or Muslims. That is understandable, coming from the Iraq war and the issue of Islamophobia.’

The West often regards conflict through a filter of secularism. ‘But Nigerians don’t think secular,’ says Hassan John. ‘We think religion.’ He traces the rise of the violence to the adoption of sharia (Islamic law) by 12 states in the north in the 2000s.

Because of this blind spot to the religious dimension, he believes the West persists in characterizing the conflict as a tribal clash over resources, brought about by climate change. But he dismisses that as ‘simplistic’.

‘These attacks destroy villages and kill women and children at night. If it was just a skirmish, how do you explain the death of predominantly women and children?

‘If it was just a clash between Fulani herders and farmers why would they attack a church and set it ablaze and target church leaders and kill them?

‘Those who try to dismiss this as an economic struggle over resources brought by climate change have a lot of explaining to do.’

Religious dimension

The US State Department has designated Nigeria as ‘a country of particular concern’ for violations of religious freedom. Its 2020 Nigeria report declares:

‘There were multiple reports of criminal attacks on religious and traditional leaders and houses of worship. In the surge of hundreds of kidnappings in 2019, media reported numerous incidents of kidnappings for ransom and the killing of Protestant and Catholic priests.’

Hassan John believes the violence against Christians has become a genocide-in-the-making.

Genocide

‘Many are describing this as an unfolding genocide. People are dying every day. How many more need to die before the international community recognize this as genocide?’

And he warns that Nigeria is not doing enough to protect its vulnerable Christian communities that are under attack. Lack of security is forcing villagers to take up arms for their own protection.

‘Lack of security is forcing villagers to take up arms for their own protection, which can create a vicious circle of attacks and reprisals. ‘But as long as people feel insecure and the government does not provide protection they will protect themselves.’

Rev Hassan John warns that lawlessness is increasing as heavily armed Fulani militants turn to kidnapping and crime.

‘There are now so many of them with AK-47s they have gone into banditry and kidnapping. When they are not attacking villages, they are stopping cars and kidnapping people to get money.’

Release International has designated Nigeria a country of special concern. CEO Paul Robinson says: ‘Scarcely a week goes by without reports of attacks against Christian villages. We visit the victims in the displacement camps, many of whom, including children, have appalling machete wounds.

Investigate

‘We call on the international community to investigate the roots of this growing violence, which is looking increasingly like an undeclared jihad and a genocide-in-the-making.’

The Rev Hassan John is the key speaker at Violent Christian Persecution in Nigeria, a series of Zoom conferences being staged by Release International in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England from November 2. Tickets are available from the Release International website.

Hassan John’s talk will be streamed live on November 5 via Release’s Facebook and YouTube channels from 7.30pm. This is a public event which can be watched by all without prior registration. More details here.

Through its international network of missions, Release International is active in some 25 countries around the world, supporting pastors, Christian prisoners and their families; supplying Christian literature and Bibles, and working for justice. Release.

Blessings.

 

Capitalism - Yet Another Upside.

Arzoo Raja Rescued By Pakistan Police - Not Before Time!

Girl, 13, who was kidnapped by 44-year-old man in Pakistan and forced to convert to Islam and marry him is rescued by cops following public outcry

Arzoo Raja has been rescued by police after she was abducted from her home in Karachi on October 13, and two days later her 'husband' Azhar Ali produced a marriage certificate. Mail.

Birdie.

Sullivan Ballou's Final Letter To Wife: People of True Faith.

                                                

July the 14th, 1861

Washington D.C.

My very dear Sarah:

The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days—perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.

Our movement may be one of a few days duration and full of pleasure—and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine O God, be done. If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing—perfectly willing—to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt.

But, my dear wife, when I know that with my own joys I lay down nearly all of yours, and replace them in this life with cares and sorrows—when, after having eaten for long years the bitter fruit of orphanage myself, I must offer it as their only sustenance to my dear little children—is it weak or dishonorable, while the banner of my purpose floats calmly and proudly in the breeze, that my unbounded love for you, my darling wife and children, should struggle in fierce, though useless, contest with my love of country.

Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me—perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar—that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name.

Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But I cannot. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the brightest day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.

As for my little boys, they will grow as I have done, and never know a father's love and care. Little Willie is too young to remember me long, and my blue-eyed Edgar will keep my frolics with him among the dimmest memories of his childhood. Sarah, I have unlimited confidence in your maternal care and your development of their characters. Tell my two mothers his and hers I call God's blessing upon them. O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children.

Sullivan

The letter may never have been mailed; it was found in Ballou's trunk after he died. It was reclaimed and delivered to Ballou's widow by Governor William Sprague. 

Please Compare & Contrast. I Shall Make No Comment.

Sick fantasist Carl Beech who made false claims of VIP paedophile ring LOSES bid to have his 18-year sentence for perverting justice slashed. Mail.

Carl Beech, 52, who made up a string of false claims about being abused by famous Westminster figures, was today told by a Court of Appeal judge that his sentence was 'fully justified'.

Thug, 22, who murdered his girlfriend's baby girl by inflicting 'catastrophic head injuries' while he was banned from having contact with any child is jailed for at least 18 years. Mail.

Jamie Chadwick, 22, was being investigated by police on suspicion of causing serious injuries to another child, a six-month-old boy, and was told not to have unsupervised contact with children.

Trust In God.

Ten Years of Listening To Atheists - Still A Christian.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyikukTLm8