Tuesday, October 18, 2011
You Are On A Loser, Ian!
ChristianAnswers.net
A skeptic asks: “The Bible makes a lot of claims about Jesus' miraculous feats. But if all these amazing things really did happen, why didn't reputable contemporary historians write about them? You'd think that phenomenon like a great darkness at Noon (crucifixion), or bright stars moving across the sky toward Bethlehem (Christmas), would have been reported by other historians. Yet we only have the biased claims of Christ's supporters.”
The reporting of the events around the life and death of Jesus are just about what you would expect in the first century, given that Jesus' following was so small during his lifetime, that He lived in such a remote corner of the Roman Empire, and given the state of astronomy at that time.Despite these limitations, Josephus (the first century Jewish historian), and Tacitus (an early second century Roman historian) make significant reference to Him. And actually, the very thing that you call for does exist. The mid-first century Roman historian Thallus makes reference to the darkness of the sun at the time of the crucifixion as he tries to refute the apostles’ claim. He argues that the crucifixion had, by chance, taken place during a solar eclipse.
Your position discounts the experience and witness of those who were “biased”—presumably referring to the New Testament writers, biased because they believed in Jesus. But who was unbiased? Can we count on those who rejected Jesus to have been unbiased? Why? Those closest to the events had high stakes in trying to protect their power base. The reports of Jesus' followers [actually] gain a certain authority because of their willingness to die for their witness to the resurrection.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Religion Is Damaging.
Of all the silliness found in religion, the 'all roads lead to God' principle is perhaps the silliest of them all. Think about it and the logic fails on every level. It is like me going north from Sheffield to get to London and being ridiculously told 'All is well. You will reach your destination.' ????
The Bahai Faith is one more variant on this theme. Put a tad simplistically - it lumps all religions together into a single dollop.
Let us abandon religion! Let us embrace the Scriptures and The Living Lord.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Bahai/bahai_exposed.htm
Whatever Happened To SENs?
Student nurses now studied sociology, politics, psychology, microbiology and management, and were assessed for their communication, management and analytical skills. ‘Specific clinical nursing skills were not mentioned,’ she wrote.
In short, nursing ditched its core vocation to care. Bedbaths and feeding those who are helpless are tasks vital to the care of patients — but are now considered beneath the dignity of too many nurses. (Mel.)
Osborne.
George Osborne has said that Britain’s contribution to the International Monetary Fund to aid failing economies could rise.Add this to the £12 billion already paid.
How come this loopy coalition has no concept of the word 'NO'?
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Eurocrats Couldn't Organise What In A Brewery?
'From a rooftop plant nursery to scooters for the unemployed, they seem unlikely recipients of public money.
But these, and dozens more projects across England, were awarded European Union funding under a programme to "reduce economic disparities" between countries and regions.
Ministers say that £38.1 million awarded through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) has been misspent or is unaccounted for, while a further £133.9 million may also have to be written off.' (Sunday Telegraph.)
Proverbs 18:4.
'The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.'
Where Is The Transparent Cost Benefit Analysis of EU Membership?
Right. £7.3 billion net in subs alone. (Don't forget the £12.32 billion spent on saving the thrice-cursed eurozone of which we are not even a member!)
Broker in the costs to us of the C.A.P., add on the costs of regulation and absurd compliances. Do not forget rakeoffs from VAT!
Just how much the annual costs are of EU membership is unclear - but take a long hard breath. Are you ready? - Well The Taxpayers' Alliance says that the overall costs are a staggering £120 BILLION annually. The Bruges Group has said that annual costs cannot be under £56 billion and have listed the spends - probably to a large extent by using the government's own 'Pink Book'.
The incalculables in all of this are the costs to business (and therefore, pretty directly to the consumer).
It seems unlikely that our annual membership could possibly drain the nation of less than a £100 billion.
Let us have a clear - and very public - Cost Benefit Analysis of the whole shebang. Europhiles - already a breed in some decline - could then be added to lists of endangered species in the UK.
Er. I hesitate to remind voters but UKIP has been 100% right all along!
Broker in the costs to us of the C.A.P., add on the costs of regulation and absurd compliances. Do not forget rakeoffs from VAT!
Just how much the annual costs are of EU membership is unclear - but take a long hard breath. Are you ready? - Well The Taxpayers' Alliance says that the overall costs are a staggering £120 BILLION annually. The Bruges Group has said that annual costs cannot be under £56 billion and have listed the spends - probably to a large extent by using the government's own 'Pink Book'.
The incalculables in all of this are the costs to business (and therefore, pretty directly to the consumer).
It seems unlikely that our annual membership could possibly drain the nation of less than a £100 billion.
Sadly, quitting the EU will not resolve this in its entirety as so many laws, rules, regulations and directives are now in place that it will probably take a generation to deregulate all the rubbish and identify which bits (there are a few - honestly!) which need to be kept.
For example. A regulation designed to make olive growing more effective is obviously nonsense for a grower of cox's orange pippins. Tragically - this is one of the kind of areas where EU bureaucrats have been absurdly simplistic and totally undiscriminating.Let us have a clear - and very public - Cost Benefit Analysis of the whole shebang. Europhiles - already a breed in some decline - could then be added to lists of endangered species in the UK.
Er. I hesitate to remind voters but UKIP has been 100% right all along!
1917.
'Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.'
Winston S. Churchill - that rather good historian!
Should All Personal Banking Be Done Through 'Mutuals'?
http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/2011/01/move-your-money-to-a-mutual/
I need to be convinced - but am openminded on the topic.
I need to be convinced - but am openminded on the topic.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
No Christian Must EVER Vote Green Under Any Circumstances.
The new coercive utopianism.
Unless we understand the ideological foundations of the Greens, we will fail to effectively address the challenge they pose. We will be left debating instrumental outcomes, as if they are based on the same foundations that underpin western civilisation. The Greens are at the cutting edge of a clash within western civilisation itself.
The Greens are not a single-issue party. Their objective is “to transform politics and bring about Green government.” As part of a worldwide movement, this objective involves a radical transformation of western culture.
In their manifesto, The Greens, Bob Brown and Peter Singer write that the origin of the party was the green bans applied by the Builders Laborers in the 1970s. The Communist Party leader of the militant union, Jack Mundey, described himself as “an ecological Marxist.” Mundey later prophesised that “in the future there is a possibility of …. what I’d call a Green Red future of socialism.”
Mundey’s “ecological Marxism” is an apt description of the Greens. It sums up their two core beliefs. First, the environment is to be placed before all else. The first principle in the Greens Global Charter states: “We acknowledge that human beings are part of the natural world and we respect the specific values of all forms of life, including non-human species.”
Secondly, the Greens are Marxist in their philosophy, and display the same totalitarian tendencies of all previous forms of Marxism when a political movement. By totalitarian, I mean the subordination of the individual in the impulse to forcibly rid society of all elements that, in the eyes of the adherent, mar its perfection.
(Wondering about the Nazi symbol? - Ultimately hard left and hard right go so far around that they meet up!)
Unless we understand the ideological foundations of the Greens, we will fail to effectively address the challenge they pose. We will be left debating instrumental outcomes, as if they are based on the same foundations that underpin western civilisation. The Greens are at the cutting edge of a clash within western civilisation itself.
The Greens are not a single-issue party. Their objective is “to transform politics and bring about Green government.” As part of a worldwide movement, this objective involves a radical transformation of western culture.
In their manifesto, The Greens, Bob Brown and Peter Singer write that the origin of the party was the green bans applied by the Builders Laborers in the 1970s. The Communist Party leader of the militant union, Jack Mundey, described himself as “an ecological Marxist.” Mundey later prophesised that “in the future there is a possibility of …. what I’d call a Green Red future of socialism.”
Mundey’s “ecological Marxism” is an apt description of the Greens. It sums up their two core beliefs. First, the environment is to be placed before all else. The first principle in the Greens Global Charter states: “We acknowledge that human beings are part of the natural world and we respect the specific values of all forms of life, including non-human species.”
Secondly, the Greens are Marxist in their philosophy, and display the same totalitarian tendencies of all previous forms of Marxism when a political movement. By totalitarian, I mean the subordination of the individual in the impulse to forcibly rid society of all elements that, in the eyes of the adherent, mar its perfection.
According to the Greens ideology, human dignity is neither inherent, nor absolute, but relevant. Humans are but one species amongst others.
As Brown and Singer write: “We hold that the dominant [western] ethic is indefensible because it focuses only on human beings and on human beings who are living now, leaving out the interests of others who are not of our species. . .”
They equate humans with animals. “The revolutionary element in Green ethics is its challenge to see ourselves in universal terms. . . I must take into account the interests of others, on the same footing as my own. . . whether these others are . . . Australians or Rwandans, or even the nonhuman animals whose habitat is destroyed when a forest is destroyed.”
What is revolutionary is not that the interests of others should be considered. Judeo-Christian belief extols consideration of others, as does Kant’s Golden Rule. What is revolutionary is the equation of humans and animals.
The Green movement attributes the planet with a spiritual dimension. Their guru, James Lovelock, described the Earth as a complex living organism, of which humans are merely parts. He named this organism after the Greek goddess who personified the earth – Gaia – and described “Her” as “alive.”
Australian Kevin Andrews authored this excellent and accurate piece.
Yorks Post Gem.
David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.
This best describes the state of the European Union and its Euro, “Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed to so many by so many.”
This best describes the state of the European Union and its Euro, “Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed to so many by so many.”
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