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Islam's selective outrage
2009-01-16 09:40:00 Riazat Butt in guardian.co.uk comments, 'Muslims cannot claim a monopoly on anger over the events in Gaza while ignoring the suffering of other Muslims and non-MuslimsComments Much has been been written about the Gaza conflict and several pieces concern the impact that events are having on British Muslims ? whether it's alienating them from the political process or driving them to radicalisation. More than a few commenters, such as Johnton, have claimed that the UK's Muslim communities have largely remained silent on the other catastrophes and atrocities to have affected their brethren in recent times. Two years ago, at a press conference, I asked Fareena Alam of the Muslim magazine Q News why Muslims were so quick to condemn western governments for their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet appeared to show little heartbreak or anger over suffering in Darfur. She replied that it was "shameful" the way British Muslims had responded to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan: "We ... More About: Islam
Obama is so pro-homosexual
2009-01-16 00:41:00 Christian Observer reports. 'In a strongly worded letter today, Association for Church Renewal President Rev. David Runnion-Bareford warned President Elect Obama about the destructive impact of his decision to invite Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to lead prayer at the Sunday celebration of his inauguration:Rev. Runnion-Bareford wrote, ?Your decision, to invite Bishop Gene Robinson to provide public leadership at the Sunday celebration of your inauguration is offensive and disappointing to many of us in Christian leadership who seek to be supportive of your presidency. In contrast to your other choices for religious leadership during this historic occasion, Robinson is a schismatic figure who has intentionally caused deep hurt and division in the Christian church. To many mainline Christians who share your concerns for peace and justice, Robinson symbolizes the moral deviance of denominational leaders who have embraced the agenda of sexual license to the detriment and decline of th... More About: Africa
England's lament
2009-01-15 22:14:00 From The Queen's Royal Lancers Website: Goodbye to my England , So long my old friend Your days are numbered, being brought to an end To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine But don't say you're English, that's way out of line. The French and the Germans may call themselves suchSo may Norwegians, the Swedes and the DutchYou can say you are Russian or maybe a DaneBut don't say you're English ever again. At Broadcasting House the word is tabooIn Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament tooEven schools are affected, staff do as they're told They must not teach children about England of old.Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and ShawThe pupils don't learn about them anymoreHow about Agincourt, Hastings , Arnhem or Mons ?When England lost hosts of her very brave sons. We are not Europeans, how can we be? Europe is miles away over the sea We're the English from England, let's all be proud Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud ! Let's tell our Government and Brussels too W... More About: Lament
Pakistan pastor attacked - by followers of the religion of peace
2009-01-15 19:03:00 Judy West ', 2008 ReligiousIntelligence.com reports, 'The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org is reporting that a young Anglican priest who was kidnapped on Friday evening by unidentified men was found badly injured near the gate of Saint John's Cathedral Church on Sunday night in Peshawar, Pakistan . Pastor Tanzil Zafar, a 28-year-old pastor of the Church of Pakistan and father of two children, is being treated at Mission Hospital Peshawar. Munawar Rumalshah, the Anglican Bishop of Peshawar diocese, said, "He was badly traumatized and his body was swollen when we found him near the Cathedral gate."A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered and the police are still investigating the case. No one has claimed responsibility. Pastor Zafar did make a statement to police, but his testimony has so far been kept confidential. According to church authorities and other sources, the pastor has no personal enmity with ... More About: Religion , Peace , Religion of Peace , Attacked
No-strings sex takes toll in UK
2009-01-15 17:11:00 Republican American reports, 'To the cheers of social scientists, Britain has been named the most promiscuous major industrial nation based on the "international sociosexuality index," which measures attitudes toward one-night stands, casual sex and numbers of partners. (The United States finished sixth.)Researchers say Britain's ranking is empowering for women because it means they now are as able as men to engage in no-strings sex. "Historically we have repressed women's short-term mating and there are all sorts of double standards out there where men's short-term mating was sort of acceptable but women's wasn't," said lead researcher David Schmitt, a psychology professor at Bradley University in Illinois. They attributed Britain's ranking to the decline of religious scruples, the highly sexualized culture and other factors. All good things, apparently.Missing from the study and the fawning news coverage were the collateral-damage data:The Health Protection Agency says sexu... More About: Toll , Strings
Couple Refuses to Abort Conjoined 'Gift from God'
2009-01-15 17:05:00 Aaron J. Leichman' Christian Post Reporter, reports, A pregnant woman who discovered last week that she is carrying a rare form of conjoined twins has pledged not to abort them. Doctors say there is only about a 20 percent chance of survival for the dicephalus twins of Mike Pedace and Lisa Chamberlain, whose fetus has separate heads but share a single body. And even if they do survive, they may have much difficulty living in the United Kingdom, where gossip papers are king and no dicephalus twins have ever survived long after birth. Despite the risks, however, the Catholic couple says they will not throw away the ?gift from God? they were given after seven years of efforts. "Some people might look at me and say, 'You're going to give birth to a freak.' But I don't care because I feel blessed," said 25-year-old Chamberlain, according to the London-based Telegraph. "To me, my twins were a gift from God and we're determined to give them a chance of life." Chamberlain and 32-year... More About: Gift , Couple , Roman Catholic
Sovereignty of God- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-15 07:40:00 And who is fit to criticise God's plan?Why, surely it is not this self same Man,Whose actions always end in self-defeat,Himself confounded by his own conceit.Man proudly marches forth in error bold,Accepts the gilded, and forsakes the gold.The source of sovreign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law.Anti-Revolutionary Party of The Netherlands, 3 April 1879, in The Practice of Political Spirituality, McKendree R Langley, Paedeia Pres 1984, p27The LORD is King for ever and ever -- Ps. 10:16There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. --DAVID BRAINERDThe sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements. Thomas BrooksLet all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey . King CanuteReceive this... More About: Sovereignty
Sorrow- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-14 07:06:00 If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.- Chinese ProverbSorrow makes men sincere. -Henry Ward BeecherSorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.- Adoniram GordonI walked a mile with Pleasure,She chattered all the way;But left me none the wiser,For all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow,And ne'er a word said she;But, oh, the things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me!Robert Browning Hamilton (1880-1950) _Along the Road_Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languishCome to the mercy seat, fervently kneel;Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish:Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot healJoy of the desolate, light of the straying,Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,'Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot cure.'Here see the Bread of Life; see waters flowingForth from the t...
Solitude - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-13 09:28:00 A man can get away from his own kind, but not from himselfSolitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety, will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to a vacant and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. Remember that the solitary mind is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad: the mind stagnates for want of employment, grows morbid, and is extinguished like a candle in foul air. -Piozzi: Anecdotes of JohnsonHe that lives well in the world is better than he that lives well in a monastery. But, perhaps, every one is not able to stem the temptations of public life; and if he cannot conquer, he may properly retreat. Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. Many are weary of their conflicts with...
Sharia Law
2009-01-12 17:33:00 Downing Street says,'We received a petition asking:“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop Islamic Sharia Law being used in Great Britain.”“The most senior judge in England and Wales has said that aspects of Islamic sharia law could be used in the UK, provided they don’t conflict with existing laws. I say that Islamic sharia law should not be used in the United Kingdom and the Prime Minister should do everything within his power to stop it being introduced.”Government’s responseShari’a law is the code of personal religious law governing the conduct of Muslims. It can extend into all aspects of people’s lives – personal, religious, family, civil and criminal.Shari’a law is not part of the law of England and Wales. The Government does not intend to change this position in relation to the whole or part of the United Kingdom. However, provided an activity prescribed by Shari’a law does not contravene the law of England and Wales, there is nothing t... More About: Sharia Law
Society- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-11 21:22:00 It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. -Jeremy Bentham _An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation_, 1789 Chapter I, "Of the Principle of Utility"3A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. -Thomas JeffersonIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -KrishnamurtiCivil society depends on people agreeing to two things: Don't deliberately give offense to others, and don't be too easily offended. Too few people are giving any thought to either.-Karl LembkeSince the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but i... More About: Society
Married couples 'punished by tax system'
2009-01-10 12:49:00 Click on the title for article.This government hates God, his law and therefore marriage. Nutorys are unlikely to be any better. More About: System , Couples , Married
Court upholds Christian Counsellor's Claim for wrongful dismissal but law i
2009-01-09 10:58:00 This is from the Christian Legal Centre 'Gary McFarlane, a relationship counsellor, won a claim for wrongful dismissal against Relate Avon. He was sacked because his Christian beliefs prevented him giving sex therapy to homosexual couples.The Employment Tribunal was in December and Mr. McFarlane was represented by religious liberties specialist, Barrister, Paul Diamond.Gary McFarlane had worked for Relate since 2003. He was disappointed with the hostility he had experienced from Relate. Although Mr McFarlane had never had to provide sex therapy to a same sex couple, he thought that if the situation did arise, he would be able to discuss his Christian views with his supervisors so that his position could be discussed and if necessary accommodated. Any such discussions were, however, pre-empted by unexpected meetings between Mr McFarlane and his manager in October 2007 when he was asked to state his views regarding same sex couples. Despite explaining that he would counsel couples i... More About: England , Court
From Oxford Press NOMOPHOBIA
2009-01-09 05:56:00 "In her latest book, Words of the Year, Countdown's Susie Dent takes a look at the new and newly revived words, some serious, and some rather more light-hearted, that have been appearing in the English language in 2008.In addition to the now familiar financial terms such as NINJA LOANS, STAGFLATION, FUNTS, and JUNGLE MAIL, the book also looks at expressions from other areas of our lives - including online social networking, ethical living, and the world of styling - that have been bubbling under this year.'Our language is becoming more expressive than ever,' says Susie Dent, evident from the appearance of words such as BOYTOX, Botox treatment for men (and MANSCAPING, the all-over removal of a man's body hair as part of a grooming routine); NOMOPHOBIA, a fear of being out of mobile phone contact, and GOOGLEABILITY, the ease with which a name or subject can be found by the Google search engine.Yet the word that is on everyone's lips at the moment and that has been chosen by Susie... More About: Oxford , Press
I have a counter slogan.
2009-01-08 22:10:00 I have a counter slogan. For the buses in London .The are probably no atheists.Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.Glorify God and enjoy Him forever. More About: Counter , Slogan
The agnostic buses
2009-01-08 14:40:00 Click the link for an article.It says,'the campaign was originally started as a positive counter-response to the Jesus Said ads running on London buses in June 2008. These ads displayed the URL of a website which stated that non-Christians "will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in hell ? Jesus spoke about this as a lake of fire prepared for the devil". Our rational slogan will hopefully reassure anyone who has been scared by this kind of evangelism. ' So what slogan would we put out on the buses? Not, Smile Jesus loves you.God is angry with the wicked everyday.?I hate divorce.?God shows his love to us in that when we were yet sinners...?I have no doubt we would not have the freedom to quote parts of Rom 1 or Leviticus.Next the nomenclature. It is not an atheist campaign but an agnostic one. As Spurgeon pointed out, agnostic is Greek for not knowing. From the equivalent Latin we get, ignoramus. Personally I favour a little... More About: Agnostic , Buses
Tax efficient giving = Good stewardship
2009-01-08 13:56:00 Our church encouraged us to donate Christmas hampers to the poor. The problem was we were to buy the with our own donations. I wanted to give to the church and the church let the charity concerned buy the hampers. This way my donation would increase by two thirds. 6 becomes 10. But it was not to be.I was happy to help with donating to a housegroup hamper but not happy that there was no tax efficient way of doing so. I have a great dislike of giving from my net income when the law provides for me to get the tax back from the government. This dislike has increased as God has blessed me, and the government cursed me with a higher rate of tax. I do believe the higher rate of tax comes under James 1, a trial to be counted as joy. More About: Giving , Good , Efficient
Socialism- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-07 20:36:00 If the world were so organised that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served.We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. --Frederic Bastiat, 1850What then, is the common denominator to which all forms of socialism are reducible, and what is the bond that unites them against natural society, or society as planned by Providenc... More About: Socialism
159 years ago today
2009-01-06 20:56:00 ?Turn to me and be saved,all you ends of the earth;for I am God, and there is no other.Spurgeon's Conversion text 159yrs to the day. More About: Today , Years
Brown v Cameron: the moral issues
2009-01-06 08:34:00 Click on th link for Telegraph on Gordon's morality. But Christian Insitute scores them like thisBrown , J Gordon (Labour) Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil ServiceVoting Record Abstained or was absent on the vote for "mainly Christian" Religious Education throughout England and Wales in 1988 Voted against Section 28 Voted against banning experiments on human embryos in 1990 Voted for reducing the abortion limit to 24 weeks in 1990 Voted against making doctors specify the handicap when allowing abortion up to birth in 1990 Abstained or was absent on the vote for a public register of pro-life doctors in 1990 Abstained or was absent on the votes for an incitement to religious hatred offence in 2001 Abstained or was absent on the vote for 'no-fault' divorce Abstained or was absent on the votes for an 18 month or for a 2 year waiting period prior to divorce Voted for removing the ban on homosexuals joining the armed forces ... More About: Issues , Cameron , Moral
EPIPHANY Quotation
2009-01-06 08:06:00 Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. ... Leo the Great (390?-461) More About: Christmas , Epiphany
Snow - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-05 14:10:00 Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled.When men were all asleep the snow came flying,In large white flakes falling on the the city brown,Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town;Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs failing,Lazily and incessantly floating down and down:Silently sifting and veiling road, roof and railing;Hiding difference, making unevenness even,Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing.For now doors open, and war is waged with the snow;And trains of sombre men, past tale of number,Tread long brown paths, as toward their toil they go.But even for them awhile no cares encumberTheir minds diverted, the daily word is unspoken,The daily thoughts of labour and sorrow slumberAt the sight of the beauty that greets them, for the charm they have broken.Robert Bridges: London Snow More About: Snow
Smoking - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-01-04 22:37:00 Cancer cures smoking.Whene'er I take my pipe and stuff itAnd smoke to pass the time away,My thoughts, as I sit there and puff it,Dwell on a picture sad and gray:It teaches me that very likeAm I myself unto my pipe.Like me, this pipe so fragrant burningIs made of naught but earth and clay;To earth I too shall be returning.It falls and, ere I'd think to say,It breaks in two before my eyes;In store for me a like fate lies.No stain the pipe's hue yet doth darken;It remains white. Thus do I knowThat when to death's call I must harkenMy body, too, all pale will grow.To black beneath the sod 'twill turn,Likewise the pipe, if oft it burn.Or when the pipe is fairly glowing,Behold then, instantaneously,The smoke off into thin air going,Til naught but ash is left to see.Man's fame likewise away will burnAnd unto dust his body turn.How oft it happens when one's smoking:The stopper's missing from its shelf,And one goes with one's finger pokingInto the bowl and burns oneself.If in the pi... More About: Smoking
Five times I should have spoken out.
2009-01-03 21:07:00 I have a list of protests I should have made.1. Age 19 I should have walked out loudly in the middle of Osbourne's awful Inadmissible Evidence in the West End.2. I should have protested when the Nigerian elders disciplined someone for merely tasting alleged alcoholic beverage.3. I should have shouted out when in Belfast at the height of The Troubles, Paisley's preacher said we could spiritualize, 'Hands that are swift to shed blood'.4. I should have protested when the Nigerian local government head said, 20 years after independence, that the country's problems were of Britain's making.5. Last year I should have protested in the Waterloo museum where almost all the souveniers commemorate the losing French dictator, not the victors. More About: Times , Spoken
Books for sale
2009-01-03 07:50:00 I do not know how many books I own except it has for 2 years been too many to fit the house. So some have lived at church where I am an elder. But our deacons want the space so I need to relocate the library. I have decided that most books I do not need for reference. The resr can go and are being put on amazon.co.uk. Click on the title above. I am seller maigemu2. You may email be of you want a particular book but I have not yet listed it. I may have one for sale. More About: Books , For Sale , Sale
Books Read in January 2009
2009-01-01 22:58:00 1. The Practical Christianity of Malcolm Muggeridge by David PorterI knew the author as a friend and also visited the Muggeridges at their home. David was an evangelical Christian interviewing Mug just before he announced his move to Rome. Mug was a very different kind of Christian and David sympathetically brings this out in this fascinating book which has some great quotes by and about Mug. I can first hand concur with Davis as to why Mug joined the RCs. I asked him and he replied with one word. Abortion. He thought only the RCs had a clear position against it. More About: Books , January , Read
I am not a Zionist...
2009-01-01 11:35:00 ..but any nation has the right to live securely. More About: Israel , Zionist
2008 stats
2009-01-01 07:53:00 Annual Stats 2008 Month Posts Books readJanuary 201 7February 234 6March 139 4 April 55 10May 82 5June 44 9July 36 9August 69 9September 21 6October 12 5November 11 2December 30 6Total 944 78So you can see I have emerged from autumanl depression. This last year has been more blogging, less reading, propably due to having my Macbook on my knee in front of the TV in the evenings.Previously 20072006 in bracketsMonth Posts Books readJanuary 27 (6) 10 (3)February 21 (7) 8 (5)March 30 (7) 4 (7)April 46 (13) 10(8)May 40 (14) 22(14)June 10 (4) 11(12)July 30 (30) 6 15)August 9 (10) 5 (11)September 8 (37) 4 (15)October 29 (49) 8(17) November 25 (37) 9 (2)December 18 (26) 10(13)Total 293 (240) 107(122)
Blowing my own trumpet again
More articles from this author:2009-01-01 07:40:00 Click on the title. Vote for me and boost my rating. I am now selling too as maigemu2. I fyou go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/shops/index.ht ml?ie=UTF8&sellerID=A29Q72GBEFKJLFyou will see what I am selling. More About: Trumpet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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