Women outnumber men for first time at one police force, report reveals.
Wiltshire Police has 1,140 female officers and staff compared to 1,101 male employees, according to newly-published data.
Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Germany 'Not The Cause of WW1?'
This absurd claim has been argued by almost exclusively leftist, revisionist historians over the last half century.
German atrocities in neutral Belgium.
France, Russia and the UK faced down Germany and the Austro-Hungarians.
Here is a two part question that these history-changers must answer:
i) Was Belgium a nation whose neutrality was guaranteed by the UK?
ii) Who invaded Belgium?
Answers:
i) Yes. Britain was committed, by treaty, to act with military force against any aggressors who fought against neutral Belgium.
ii) Germany invaded and raped Belgium from the 4th of August 1914.
Supplementary question:
Consequently, who began The Great War?
This Blog Had Warned "Out of the frying pan and into the fire."
BY EMILY WOOD
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has formally dismissed the controversial Trump-era Commission on Unalienable Rights, which sought to elevate the promotion of religious freedom worldwide.
State Dept. disbands Trump-era commission that heightened importance of religious freedom.https://www.christianpost.com/news/state-dept-disbands-trump-era-unalienable-rights-commission.html
Oh, Dear. When Ministers Embrace Heresy.
This man denies Jesus. He is (allegedly) a minister of God.
By his fruits you will know him.
Warnock deletes tweet claiming people can save themselves, Easter transcends Jesus.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic U.S. senator from Georgia and pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, has removed a controversial Easter tweet stating that even non-Christians can save themselves by doing good.
Blogger: I think that this is what is known as 'a Freudian tweet'.
Yes, Yes and Yes Again.
A society that's gone off the sexual rails.
Claims about teenage boys' sexual misbehaviour suggest a wider social pathology
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Dante's Divine Comedy; William Blake, 1757-1827
An Oxford student who claims that her complaint of rape was dismissed has inadvertently drawn attention to what’s being left unsaid about the related tsunami of claims by girls of a “rape culture” perpetrated by male pupils at mixed-sex schools.
The Times reported that a member of Oxford university’s women’s boat club claimed she was sexually assaulted by one of the university’s top athletes. She said she reported the allegation to Sir John Bell, the distinguished scientist who sits on the boat club’s executive committee, but claimed that he diminished her allegation.
A disciplinary officer informed her that no action could be taken because she hadn’t reported the matter to the police, even though her alleged attacker had written her a letter apologising for having “crossed that boundary”.
But the female student had had consensual sex with this man, who then allegedly had sex with her again while she was drunk. The Times wrote:
The woman had gone back to the man’s room on campus and they had sex, which she does not remember. After going to sleep he allegedly woke her up at about 5am to say he wanted to have sex again. In a report to the university she claimed:“I was half asleep and did not give a verbal response to consent. He continued to grope me and then told me to turn over so he could have sex with me . . . He then has sex with me while I lay on my front; I do not believe I was fully awake, but drifting in and out of consciousness . . .“I do not believe that I was fully aware of what was happening, or in a position to resist due to my drunken semi-conscious state. I did not give him consent to engage in sexual intercourse and feel deeply affected by him taking advantage of my inebriation.”
But how can she be sure she was taken advantage of? For by her own admission, she was to drunk to know what was happening or even to remember.
Although the broader slew of allegations erupting at present involves high-school pupils rather than students, a similar point springs to mind that none of these complaints acknowledges any responsibility by the girls themselves.
There have been many claims, for example, that boys have been circulating pictures of some of these girls when naked. But who took these pictures that apparently provoked their abuse on line, if not at least some of the girls themselves? Instagram and other social media are reportedly full of images of girls in sexually tantalising poses or clothing. What kind of girl has such a picture taken at all?
And how many of these claimed excesses arose, as in the case of the Oxford student, in the ambiguous context of a consensual sexual relationship that then developed in a way the girl didn’t like? How many took place after both girl and boy had been drinking or sharing a joint?
This is absolutely not to absolve the boys involved of blame for such loathsome activities as up-skirting, lewd harassment or groping and other assaults. Indeed, some of these accounts of sexual violence by boys are horrifying. It would seem that some are behaving appallingly and even committing criminal offences.
But as in the case of the Oxford student, how many of these girls may have persuaded themselves they are victims and blame others (such as dragging Sir John Bell through the mud) while ignoring their own responsibility for helping create whatever situation that developed? An entire cohort of boys is being collectively trashed as sexual predators on the basis of unverified allegations.
Even to suggest such a thing is, of course, to invite instant denunciation for “blaming the victim”. It’s beyond time that this is called out as a morally bankrupt tactic of reputational intimidation and assassination.
Responsibility is not a zero sum game. If someone leaves their back door open or the windows unlocked and a criminal enters and burgles the house, the householder surely bears a measure of responsibility for helping enable the break-in. The fact that the householder’s carelessness was a contributory factor does not detract from the fact that the burglar is guilty of committing a crime. Equally, to point out the householder’s carelessness would not be “blaming the victim” but would self-evidently be a justified criticism.
In similar vein, a sexual assault by a boy is a crime. But to call ambiguous sexual relationships “rape culture” is to devalue the offence of rape; and to pretend that sexual provocation or flaunting by girls doesn’t itself signal to boys that they can dispense with respect for such girls is irresponsibly and morally obtuse.
Clearly, though, responsibility for this wave of allegations about misbehaving boys goes far beyond the boys or girls who are actually involved. In the storm of accusations against the boys’ schools, there’s been scant acknowledgement that much of this behaviour takes place off school premises, at parties and so forth. Where are the parents in all this? Do they know what their children are up to? Do they care?
What about the responsibility of the government in failing to curb the accessibility of pornography that is reportedly teaching boys to regard such grossly abusive and predatory behaviour as what girls want and as how ordinary men and women behave? What kind of moral and emotional vacuum has the adult world allowed to develop so that boys fail to realise that this porn culture does not represent any kind of relationship norm but is is pathologically sick and twisted?
As I suggested here, in a society where women have torn up the sexual contract that formerly tamed male behaviour and instead declared themselves sexually free and available; where pornography is widely available; where girls dress with an almost total absence of modesty or decorum; where sex educators in schools don’t say “don’t do it” but instead say “do it without any tiresome consequences;” where many boys are no longer brought up within a stable family background with strong and civilised male role models; where chivalry is said to be “patriarchal,” and where sex has been generally de-sacralised and reduced to little more than a recreational sport, it’s surely not just the boys who should be criticised. This is a society that’s gone off the sexual rails.
Monday, April 05, 2021
The Sacred Mushroom and The Passover Plot.
When I became a Christian, I was aware of the two works above which were embarrassingly poor for the academic Allegro and the incredibly selective and inventive Mr Schonfield.
There have seldom been better examples of atheists desperately anxious to 'debunk' the resurrection. They were utterly wretched in the honesty of their writings and both texts were so feeble that, even as a brand new Christian, I was able to utterly destroy their appallingly feeble arguments.
The disciples were drugged up on mushrooms? - After a Roman crucifixion, the soldiers were so poor at their job, that Jesus came around in the refreshing coolness of the tomb. Known as 'The Swoon Theory'. Quoi???
I have only read one book by Richard Dawkins - and as a non-scientist - I found it so easy to dismantle - I did not even bother to trouble myself to his other machinations in his reportedly weak "The God Delusion."
If you must waste money and time on all of the tripe above, please promise yourself that you will also read "Who Moved The Stone?" by Frank Morison. It is a bit old-fashioned and the style makes it a tad difficult to read - but that one volume uses reason and logic and zero opinions. It will stun all of those who are honest in their search for truth.
The Case For Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation Of The Evidence For Jesus
By Lee Strobel
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0310209307
- ISBN 13
- 9780310209300
- Seller
As a backup to the above, Lee Strobel's much more readable "The Case For Christ" is just as honest as lawyer Frank Morison but some may find it - not better - but perhaps a bit more accessible. I suggest, however, that you read both. But
... if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 1 Corinthians 15:14. New International Version.
But if Christ did actually rise from the dead and conquer death itself - as He had promised - is it not time for you to accept all of His other promises about Heaven, Hell and Life Everlasting?
You are not promised tomorrow - please do not gamble with your eternal future. Act straight away. This is not the same as postponing painting the fence or doing the washing up. It is a now thing!
The Church of The Holy Sepulchre Really Was The The Site of Christ's Death? - Hmm. Not Wholly Convinced.
Archaeology news: Ancient inscription pinpoints site where Jesus was crucified - claim.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL evidence has come to light to reveal the most likely site upon which Jesus Christ was crucified more than 2,000 years ago, a prominent scripture expert has claimed. The church is believed to encompass the site of Christ's crucifixion and burial, although the latter is contested by some Protestant denominations.
Tom Meyer, a professor of Bible studies at Shasta Bible College and Graduate School in California, US, has now told Express.co.uk how a 1,700-year-old inscription and image of a Roman-era pilgrim ship found within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre could pinpoint the site of the crucifixion.
He said: "In 1975 the late Dr Magen Broshi, a leading archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls expert, was given the rare opportunity to lead a team of archaeologists to supervise clearance work at the eastern extremity of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the probable location of where Jesus was crucified and resurrected.
"Even though the area Dr Broshi was granted access to was extremely limited, about 90 square feet, what he unearthed has underlined the likelihood that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was indeed the actual place of Jesus's crucifixion.
"The greatest discovery made by Dr Broshi was a drawing of a small Roman sailing ship that dates to the very beginning of the Byzantine Empire, around 330 AD."
According to the expert, the date of the inscription was determined by the type of boat that was etched, as well as by the layer in which it was made.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre began its life in the year 335 AD after Helena had ordered the destruction of a pagan shrine built over the site by Emperor Hadrian (132 to 136 AD).
It is, therefore, likely the ancient inscription was made before 335 AD, as the site excavated by Dr Broshi was filled in and would have been inaccessible because of the church's construction.
How Many Know What The Croats Did To The Serbs?
Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
| Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia | |
|---|---|
| Part of World War II in Yugoslavia | |
| Location | |
| Date | 1941–1945 |
| Target | Serbs |
Attack type | Genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportation, forced conversion |
| Deaths | several estimates |
| Perpetrators | Ustaše |
| Motive | Anti-Serb sentiment,[7] Greater Croatia,[8] anti-Yugoslavism,[9] Croatisation[10] |
The ideological foundation of the Ustaše movement reaches back to the 19th century. Several Croatian nationalists and intellectuals established theories about Serbs as an inferior race. The World War I legacy, as well as the opposition of a group of nationalists to the unification into a common state of South Slavs, influenced ethnic tensions in the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (since 1929 Kingdom of Yugoslavia). The 6 January Dictatorship and the later anti-Croat policies of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav government in the 1920s and 1930s fueled the rise of nationalist and far-right movements. This culminated in the rise of the Ustaše, an ultranationalist, fascist and terrorist organization, founded by Pavelić. The movement was financially and ideologically supported by Benito Mussolini, and it was also involved in the assassination of King Alexander I.
Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, a German puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was established, comprising most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as parts of modern-day Serbia and Slovenia, ruled by the Ustaše. The Ustaše's goal was to create an ethnically homogeneous Greater Croatia by eliminating all non-Croats, with the Serbs being the primary target but Jews, Roma and political dissidents were also targeted for elimination. Large scale massacres were committed and concentration camps were built, the largest one was the Jasenovac, which was notorious for its high mortality rate and the barbaric practices which occurred in it. Furthermore, the NDH was the only Axis puppet state to establish concentration camps specifically for children. The regime systematically murdered approximately 200,000 to 500,000 Serbs. 300,000 Serbs were further expelled and at least 200,000 more Serbs were forcibly converted, most of whom de-converted following the war. Proportional to the population, the NDH was one of the most lethal Europeam regimes.
Mile Budak and other NDH high officials were tried and convicted of war crimes by the communist authorities. Concentration camp commandants such as Ljubo Miloš and Miroslav Filipović were captured and executed, while Aloysius Stepinac was found guilty of forced conversion. Many others escaped, including the supreme leader Ante Pavelić, most to Latin America. The genocide was not properly examined in the aftermath of the war, because the post-war Yugoslav government did not encourage independent scholars out of concern that ethnic tensions would destabilize the new communist regime. Nowadays, оn 22 April, Serbia marks the public holiday dedicated to the victims of genocide and fascism, while Croatia holds an official commemoration at the Jasenovac Memorial Site. Wiki.
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