Heard of 'True Vision'?

Great news? The Police have launched 'True Vision' packs which more than half of our Police Forces now embrace. These rainbow-coloured cards explain how they are fighting so-called 'hate crime' and hows ALL "homophobic" matters will be taken very seriously.
Is this about "hate crime" or merely the actions of the new Labour thought police? These self same police who are "too busy" to turn up when our garage is broken into - otherwise known as a "real crime" - can find time and resources to descend in force if somebody tells, what somebody deems to be an inappropriate joke.
Apparently, giving out Christian leaflets on a stall which tell the truth from Scripture about homosexuality, gets aged couples arrested!
When I was a JP, we were trained to give out much tougher sentences for crimes which had a racial or 'homophobic' element attached. - Why? Is justice not supposed to be blind?
If a person is mugged because the thug thinks they are "ugly" or from purest greed, that gains one penalty. If mugged for alleged and no-need-to-prove-because-it-has-been-claimed "homophobic" reasons, a much higher penalty kicks in. There is no logic here. There are two equal victims. The motivation of the attacker is of no relevance. Is justice not supposed to be blind?


And there are those who wonder why some of us are "fighting to cling onto our freedoms". Wonder no more!


If we apply 'The Golden Rule' from Matthew in our dealings with others it is difficult to go too far wrong.

Are pigs flying? - Anglican Bishop talks sense!

The Government must rethink policies on multiculturalism to counter the growing influence of Islamic radicalism, the Bishop of Rochester says in a Daily Telegraph article. Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali said the dominant practice in British Islam had changed from a pietistic mysticism to a more fundamentalist and politicised form. This was the result of a growth of mosques since the 1980s staffed by clerics adhering to radical Muslim traditions. Government housing and education policies that favour segregation with the aim of protecting immigrant cultures have the effect of alienating one culture from another, he said. The bishop urged potential immigrants to be screened for their sympathy for British values. Chief among these, he said, is the ‘innate dignity of all with fundamental equality … liberty and safety from harm’.

Papyrology shows up the 'experts'.

In the 1990s, Professor Carsten Peter Thiede turned both Theology and New Testament criticism on their heads. His findings utterly destroyed the so-called research of countless academics - and they are incandescent with rage at the ruthless slaughter of so many sacred cows.
For donkeys' years, claims have been made that the Gospels were written very late - in the second century at the earliest. Naturally, this meant that they were so far detached from the actual events, they could be treated as 'pious fiction' or 'rough approximations'.
Unfortunately for all these negativists,Thiede proved definitively by the science of papyrology, that the fragment of Matthew's Gospel known as 'The Magdalen Papyrus' or sometimes, 'The Jesus Papyrus', was written, at the very latest, AD 68 - just 34 years after the crucifixion and there are pointers to a considerably earlier date.
His work is ten years old and yet the facts have not made even one jot of difference. The same rubbish is being taught in seminaries and theological colleges.The Gospels MUST now be taken without a pinch of salt.[ Incidentally, it is conclusive that Mark's Gospel preceded Matthew's.]
One excuse fewer for unbelievers. Well done Peter!

LINK: http://www.british-israel.ca/Interview.htm

Enemies subtly undermine The Christ.

If Jesus were not God the Son, then we have two immediate problems. The first is that His sacrifice for "all mankind" is simply not enough to pay the price of all our sin.
The second problem is that He had promised salvation to His listeners. If He knew He was not the Saviour, then He was no more than a conman - an out and out deceiver.
No surprise then that it is a very common tactic of His enemies to portray Jesus as merely being "a good man" with the Sermon on The Mount adduced as evidence.
Sorry. It won't wash. Either He is God the Son; our real and present Saviour OR He was a very "bad" man. No compromises are possible.

The illiberal left..

What I reproduce here I do not fully vouch for. All I know is that this is a claim made openly by the BNP. I hope that it is not true but suspect strongly that it is 100% fact as Democracy Watch have taken up the case. With attitudes like this in place from the liberal-left authorities, it is only a matter of time before we start seeing BNP elected as MPs and not just as councillors!


"BNP Organiser Kevin Hughes who is being held in Featherstone Prison has been refused books and magazines, including Christian religious books, by the Prison Governor Michael Bolton....... The Prison Service Rules on sending prisoners books should be applied in a way that is non-discriminatory and applied in a way that does not adversely affect only specific racial, religious and ethnic groups.No censure of foreign language books. At the moment books and magazines sent to white British prisoners that are written in English are being prohibited. Prisoners in the Prison Service who are from foreign and ethnic minority groups and who are being sent books written in languages such as Urdu, Assamese, Awadhi, Bagri, Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Lamani, Marathi etc etc are not being prohibited from being sent to prisoners. These books are not studied or assessed by the Prison Service before they are allowed to be issued to the prisoners."

[Quotation courtesy of Democracy Watch.]

Link: Note the comment on the piece with regard to Hughes' conviction which I have seen from other sources and believe to be an accurate portrayal. http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/index.php?itemid=374

NOTE. This site holds no brief for the BNP but will stick up , even for them, if they are abominably treated outside the confines of a democratic society.

A land fit for criminals.

I did ten years as a magistrate and probably sent fewer than 30 people to prison in that period - most of the time it is not necessary but when clearly essential it is extremely difficult.
Everything may point to custody; no remorse; failure to respond to countless community punishments and seriousness of the offences to boot. But forget it. There are 'guidelines' in place to ensure that you do not jail people, even for quite serious, anti-social behaviour. I would willingly have imposed custody on perhaps, four times more occasions than I did.
"So how come prisons are overflowing?" I hear you ask. Well,when you ignore the moderately serious without putting a check on behaviour, unsurprisingly, the average offender moves up the scale and eventually a great many have then to be imprisoned by Crown Court.
Yesterday, a government advisory body, evidently with the brief to reduce the number of prisoners, announced that 'guidelines' should be adjusted yet again so that shoplifters are never be jailed - even as repeat offenders. Stark, staring bonkers!
When will they get the message that they are simply making the situation worse and worse? They must prove to offenders with sentencing that being a criminal is just not worth it.

Helping society to decay.

Nearly 40,000 teenage pregnancies in 2004 - the last year for which we have the figures. 'So what', you ask? - Well, let us examine what surveys clearly show to be the social consequences.
These offspring who are not butchered by abortionists are: more likely to fail in school, turn to crime, take drugs and to perpetuate this cycle. Do we not have enough single parent families where this is nobody's fault without adding to the problem? - Apparently not, as successive governments, especially those of a leftwing hue, have conspired to make the situation worse.
They have achieved this by insisting that it is a question of "education". Rubbish! I would wager that there was not a single, mentally competent girl in that 40,000 who did not know that sex has consequences.
Except of course, today these consequences are few - that is the problem. Shame has been abolished; abortions are there as a safety net; a house and an income are the "prize" for many and society is too politically correct to be "judgemental".
There is also blame to apportion beyond governments to: the irresponsible media, schools who preach "do whatever you like but try to avoid the consequences", shockingly poor parenting, a Church which is weak, silent and generally pathetic - all this against a hedonistic backcloth.
The highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe? Funny how the only lists this country seems to top are always the wrong ones!


The feminist left insist that there are so many dysfunctional two parent families that single parents are to be welcomed. This argument is as crass as it is disingenuous.


LINK: http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/post.php

Knavish Tricks.

For those who hate the Gospel and wish to denigrate it there are numerous tactics employed. One of the favourites is to employ different historical criteria. We have no documents on the writings of Julius Caesar earlier than 100s of years after his death and yet every word is taken as absolute truth.
We have FOUR gospels with a single message dating back to a matter of decades - or even less - from Jesus's resurrection yet these same 'experts' pillory them and give them no credit.
Have you ever heard the expression 'double standards'?

Education down the toilet.

'A' Levels have always been the best part of our educational qualifications. They are now in trouble as one official admits that we are heading for a 100% pass rate. Absurd!
What of the wasters, the feckless, the incompetent, the ones who only care about their other subjects. What of those with appalling marks?
I have been an examiner and EVERY batch of examinees contains such students.
Madness!

LINK: http://pws.prserv.net/mpjr/mp/dm220903.htm

Muscular Christianity.

If you were to ask the average 'man on the Clapham omnibus' how he perceives Christians, I feel that he might say something like - "Otherworldly, nice, socially-minded, often hypocrites and a little bit dippy."
Certainly, this is a view reinforced ad nauseam by TV programme makers. Like all stereotyping there is at least a grain of truth in this, particularly in those parts of the Church which mistakenly think that salvation comes through good works.
Sadly, this rather sours the pool for those Christians who, whilst never shunning good works, know that salvation only comes by the Grace of God combined with repentance.
I know few evangelicals who fit the Clapham gentleman's profile. Ask yourself, would his description fit Jesus? If it does - fine, that is how we should be!
I rather suspect otherwise!

Why buy The Mail on Sunday?

Why do people bother to read the Mail on Sunday - a poorer version of the ever declining Daily Mail?
One possibility is the rather excellent column of that practising Anglican and former marxist, Peter Hitchens.
He is the scourge of politically correct and woolly-minded thinking.


LINK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843541491/202-1865173-7186262?v=glance&n=266239&s=books&v=glance

The left on crime.

The left believe in, restoration, restitution, rehabilitation and for all I know, revelation. Most of the rest of us do also, except we also believe in retribution,remorse and repentance- although those of us who are Christians do not believe in revenge. [Retribution means a balanced, fair and hopefully certain punishment.]
The leftwing attitude has dominated, and even been taken on board by the Tories, for at least 55 years over which time crime must obviously have plummeted. No sensible society could allow such beliefs if they were failing.
Unfortunately, this is not quite the case as serious crime has risen by over 1,100% in that period. Clearly, godlessness, fractured families et al, all play their debilitating parts but the removal of the concept of punishment has also removed the basic principle of fairness a society requires. When wrongdoers do not receive a punishment commensurate with their crime, it is not only unfair on them but also unfair on all the rest of us who do 'play the game'.
God requires us to punish crime on the social level and to be prepared to forgive individuals on the personal level. If this is not true then the two Testaments are inconsistent - which is clearly not the case.

Punishment for wrongdoing is a fundamental Christian principle. Please remember however, that God only forgives sin, we are still answerable for our crime. Of course, they do overlap!

LINK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843541483/202-1865173-7186262?v=glance&n=266239

Vouchers.

The number of small Christian schools is quite high but it is an absolute disgrace that parents are forced to go private to obtain a Christian education for their children.
Church schools - mainly RC and Anglican - have a mixed record of promoting the faith and in any case, there is insufficient provision for those wanting to educate their children as Christians.
The new breed of Christian Schools answers a definite need.
It is quite scandalous that the parents in these schools - very often quite poor working class people - have to fund their children's education when they have already paid their taxes. Why should they not be given the equivalent from the government to fund a Christian education?
At Handsworth Christian School, fees are some £2,500 per child per annum. This represents approximately half what the government spends per child to indoctrinate children in so many indisciplined, moral hell holes called comprehensives. What a nice way for governments to save money at the expense of Christians.
The solution is vouchers. This would not only help the Christian schools but would mean that most parents would have the opportunity to remove their children from sink schools. Clearly, these would either have to improve to gain this 'bottom funding' or close down.

Link: Tory navel-gazing. http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000541.php

EU evil.

I am well known for despising the EU because of: massive expense, corruption, delusions of grandeur, bureaucracy, loss of democracy and general non-stop bossiness.
BUT let us also consider The Consolidated Treaty which, along with the original Treaty of Rome, basically prevents open trade with the Third World. The EU is little more than a protectionist, customs union. "So what?" I hear you say. "It's all so boring and complicated."
All too true but this attitude KILLS people. (Oxfam has stood up publicly against the terrible things it is responsible for.)
The EU sells us subsidised food - often at TWICE what it would cost on world markets. So we are made poorer but this is nothing compared to Third World nations who could, in many cases, dig their way out of poverty if only they had access to our markets.
To think. Some Christians actually support this horrific organisation!


LINK: Agricultural Subsidies section. http://www.maketradefair.com/en/index.php?file=30092002094729.htm

Greens are fundamentally wrong.

I am not saying that we should not look after the earth and be good stewards of it but I was rather disturbed to see a letter, I think on Ceefax, the other day which said: " The earth would be far better off without the human species on it."
This is the same as saying that a house is better off if nobody lives in it.
This is the kind of logic which emerges when you take the Creator out of the equation. God made the world for us and not vice verca.

Churches are silent.

It has now been months since this wretched government allowed homosexuals the right to 'marry'.
Have the Churches all been silent or is it that they have no idea how to create publicity?
I had few objections to homosexuality being decriminalised as these people then have to answer to God and their conscience.
To put homosexual partnerships on the same level as marriage is an abomination.

Credit where credit is due.

'The Miracles of Jesus' series on BBC 1, thus far, has managed not to offend me in any way. I have had a number of minor issues but feel that the opening two programmes have been produced with genuine integrity.
Mind you, we have not dealt with the Resurrection yet, so the jury is still out.





Addendum. 23/8/06 The programme on the Resurrection blurred the edges and was rather selective in what it picked out but was just about acceptable.

Abolition of sin.

For once, it is not exclusively the lefties who are trying to abolish 'sin' even though they are in the vanguard.
When a society believes that morality is a matter of personal opinion, we are in deep

trouble. 60 million different moral philosophies does not equate to the 'shared values' our society so desperately needs.

I publish this website without comment.

About Islam: The Koran says in Sura 5:33 The just retribution for those who fight GOD (Allah) and His messenger (Muhammad and/or muslims), and commit horrendous crimes, is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or to be banished from the land. This is to humiliate them in this life, then they suffer a far worse retribution in the Hereafter.

Islam is obviously not a peaceful religion. Do not believe the liberals on TV when they say Islam is peaceful. Instead, use common sense...what do the pictures below tell you about Islam?
In Contrast to the Koran: The Bible says in Matthew 5:44 "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you."

Because of what the Koran teaches for its followers to do to anyone rejecting Islam, Muslims are potential threats to [The West]. The only way to keep them from attacking [us] is to try to lead all muslims to Jesus. Islam is a major threat to our national security and the ... way of life- as we saw on 9/11/01. Our fight is not with the Arab race, but with demonic Islam.

http://www.thestormshelter.net/islaminfo.html Photos.


The Bible says in Ephesians 6:12 - "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

Atheist Link: http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/hdth.htm

Educational failings.

We may no longer be an actively Christian nation, even if in the past, that only ever really referred to shared values. Nonetheless, Judaeo-Christianity is our heritage; our history; our culture; our birthright. It is appalling that children are taught so little of their nation and how they fit into this. To have a full grounding in what Christianity is, is a simple entitlement.
Schools are failing their charges. Nobody is asking for indoctrination - that does not even occur in the Christian School where I teach! Children, as part of a fully rounded education, should have learnt the major stories of the Old Testament. They should know the stories of The New Testament and should know what the claims of Christianity are. These perhaps should be taught neutrally which means that it would be appropriate to teach to those from all faiths or none.
In a Christian School, we teach the Faith more directly but it is also to children from Sikh, Hindu, Moslem and Chinese religion backgrounds. Admittedly their parents have volunteered them into a Christian based environment but it works - and in a more diluted form would do so in state schools.
BUT of course, the liberal left are out to destroy Christianity and, through the education system, they are trying to starve it of of relevance.

It is reprehensible that schools kow-tow to multi-faith agendas before children have the first idea about our historical faith. The assumption is made that all religions are quaint but dangerous rubbish. These people are wrong and MUST be challenged!

Tax abuse.

The left have always believed in spending other people's money. There is no Christian enjoinder to support high and unreasonable levies from governments who are supposed to be our servants and not our masters.

Taxation is today so high as to be a form of abuse. We have to work entirely for the government until June 3rd - Tax Freedom Day. Inheritance Tax raids the bereaved AND targets monies on which tax has already been paid.
In OT times the tithe was for religious and social reasons.
Little wonder so few Christians justify tithing today. Shame on them when leftwing governments spend their money so effectively and with such wisdom!

High taxation saps the lifeblood from society; destroys initiative; encourages people to work less; discourages investment and works only to the advantage of the feckless.

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

LINK: Stealth taxes - the details. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/garbagegate/item2/stealth.htm

Still just the 100+ Stealth Taxes, is it Mr Brown?

Faith and uncertainty.

Have you ever seen or heard one of those programmes, frequently late in the evening, in which an atheist/agnostic is in debate with a high-ranking, 'professional Christian' - often a Bishop?
The atheist makes his or her weak point, usually based on the fact of evil in the world and this thereby 'justifies' unbelief.
"Move in for the kill!" you shout at the PC. Disappointment reigns as you hear them make some variant on this piece of compromising, illogical claptrap - "Well, you see - faith encompasses disbelief." I have heard this rot so many times.
What does it mean and why can programme makers not find a real Christian? Is it deliberate?