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Books read in June 2009
2009-06-07 18:24:00
1, Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century by David UnderdownDorchester was rated as the most godly community in seventeen century England. This book tells you what that meant. If you did not go to your parish church every Sunday or if you went and fell asleep, you risked a fine. That was the law of the land, not the locality. The commonest offences brought to law were drunkenness and swearing. The law was applied to rich and poor alike to the concern of some of the gentry. A hospital and schools were built. There was extraordinary generosity in collections for Dorchester was rated as the most godly community in seventeen century England. This book tells you what that meant. If you did not go to your parish church every Sunday or if you went and fell asleep, you risked a fine. That was the law of the land, not the locality. The commonest offences brought to law were drunkenness and swearing. The law was applied to rich and poor alike to the concern of...
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Vice - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-05-28 16:31:00
No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in. -Joseph AddisonVice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask. - Benjamin FranklinSome faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)Inactivity is the beginning of all vice. - C.F.W. Walther , letter: 15 Jan 1873

Vegetables - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-05-27 18:48:00
Do you know the difference between broccoli and nose-pickings?You have to tell your children to eat broccoli.I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?Vegetarians don't live longer, they just look older.Nothing wrong with vegetarians. Some of my best friends are vegetarians. Admittedly, they're also quadrupeds....Peter AndertonThe conclusion which he drew, or pretended to draw, as that if it was sinful to kill and eat animals, it was not less sinful to do the like by vegetables, or their seeds. None such, he said, should be eaten, except what had died a natural death, such as fruit that was lying on the ground and about to rot, or cabbage-leaves that had turned yellow in late autumn. These and other like garbage he declared to be the only food that might be eaten with a clear conscience. Even so the eater must plant the pips of any apples or pears that h...
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Vanity - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-05-25 22:06:00
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchmen and an Englisman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English. --William Hazlitt, 1823Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. -- John Milton aka Satan, in Devil's Advocate 1997

Homeopathy
2009-05-23 10:47:00
During my degree we were taught that homeopathy rests on the principle that symptoms can be relieved by taking a drug that mimics them; like cures like. Homeopathic medicines are made by diluting these specifics many thousand fold if not millions. Just at the point when there may be no molecules of the active ingredient left, the homeopath says it becomes a potent medicine.As far as i am concerned this is nonsense. I will not sell drugs I believe to be of no benefit. The best I can say is they will have no side effects.However, homeopathic practitioners claim to be wholistic, treating patients not disease. This can only be positive even if their medicines are rubbish.However many people claim to be helped by homeopathy I remain unconvinced.
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Equality Bill Will Force Churches to Employ Homosexuals
2009-05-22 16:32:00
CCFON says, 'Churches and other Christian groups will be forced to employ practising homosexuals, transsexuals and civil partners under the Government?s new Equality Bill .The Bill aims to sweep all of the existing law on equality into one Act of Parliament and to eliminate more forms of discrimination than are currently covered. While Christians believe in the innate worth of every human being, the Bill undermines basic Christian freedoms to adhere to biblical values in the area of employment. Churches and other Christian groups will not be able to discriminate on the basis of sexual practice which contravenes biblical values or gender reassignment when employing staff. Only roles which mainly involve teaching, promoting, or leading worship services will be exempt from the provisions of the Government?s new Equality Bill. Far from simplifying the law which the Equality Bill promised to do. The Bill places even more complex requirements above and beyond those already within the exis...
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European Elections Thursday 4th June - A Time of Jubilee?
2009-05-20 14:14:00
Working with Christians in politics across Europe, The Christian Party ? Christian Peoples Alliance (CP_CPA) have come together united by their Christian faith to contest the EU elections. They offer a vision forEurope based on the social teachings of the Churches and aredetermined to restore truth and integrity to politics. Many people are fed up with the big party system. Could this be the moment to see a return to Christian values in Britain? In this election, you can't vote for individual candidates as you dofor Westminster. You have to choose a political party 'list', with MEPselected according to how many votes the list wins. In several regionsof England, such as the North West and London, it's possible for theCP-CPA to win a seat with just 8 per cent of the vote - giving a voice for values in the European Parliament. Read more about the campaign by visiting either www.VoteChristian.infoor www.cpaparty.org.uk The Christian Peoples Alliance was born out ofthe Movement for...
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Muslim appointed BBC Head of Religion
2009-05-18 18:42:00
CCFON says,'The reaction of many to the appointment of Muslim , Aaqil Ahmed to the post of Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC must be?'How is this possible?' Until now, our public national broadcaster has been charged with reflecting our Country?s Christian heritage and ethos. Aaqil Ahmed?s appointment is controversial because his background and previous work at Channel 4 has revealed a noticeable bias towards Islam and multiculturalism. According to The Daily Telegraph, senior bishops wrote to the BBC?s Director General Mark Thompson when it was envisaged that Mr. Ahmed might be appointed, to question the BBC?s commitment to Britain's Christian audience. The Archbishop of Canterbury had also raised concerns with Mr. Thompson that the ?Christian voice is being sidelined? after Mr. Ahmed was first connected to the role. The appointment could be seen as the inevitable result of our multicultural society, in which all religions are viewed as of equal value. This is the secul...

Books read in May 2009
2009-05-04 10:29:00
1. Surprised by Hope by Tom WrightWright had written an excellent text to show the Christian hope is not heaven after death but resurrection. Salvation is for the body, not disembodied souls. We do not look to heaven but to a new creation at the return of Christ, a new heaves and earth. Wright works out the practical implications now. He certainly makes one look afresh at our hymnody where the focus is too often on heaven not resurrection.However, at three points I would depart from Wright. First, he says that once you establish there is no purgatory there is nothing wrong in prayers for the dead. I do not see to one end one can in any way pray for any alteration in the state of the dead. Second, Wright has a less than biblical understanding of hell and eternal punishment. He sees the lost merely as in someway dehumanised by losing the divine image. I think this is mere non-biblical speculation . Finally I cannot for the life of me understand why he thinks that third world debt is...
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An unwelcome intervention
2009-04-28 15:54:00
Yesterday this blog published a scam type letter from Nigeria, since deleted. How this happened I do not know. I did not publish it. It is the first time I have been hacked.

Usury - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-28 15:53:00
Calvin dealt with the absolute prohibition upon lending money at interest (usury), for example, by arguing that it was merely an accommodation to the specific needs of a primitive society. Since there was no similarity between such a society and Geneva;interest is merely rent paid on capital, after all; he allowed lenders to charge a variable rate of interest. - Alister McGrath, Calvin and the Christian Calling, First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 31-35.

Unkindness - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-24 15:57:00
Man's inhumanity to manMakes countless thousands mourn.Robert Burns. 1759-1796. To a Mouse.

Unity - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-23 11:18:00
Daisies of the world unite - you have nothing to lose but your chains.Eunuchs of the world unite - you have nothing to lose.Misspellers of the world, untie.Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. -Richard Baxter 1651If we do not depart from God, and disinite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.- Oliver Cromwell, to his army officers, 23 March 1649I may worship in a different building from you, I may worship in a different style, but all we hold dear is God's gift in Christ Jesus, who is our Unity. In Him we have all and lack nothing.- Michael J DavisWhen we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.--E Stanley JonesUnity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.- Abraham Kuyper, Uniformity:The Curse of ...

Unique - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-22 16:17:00
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.Nature made him, and then broke the mold.-Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)_Orlando Furioso_ [1532], Canto X, Stanza 84Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.-Tallulah BankheadThere is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.- Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWe all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.- Deborah Tannen (1951 - )
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UFOs - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-21 13:16:00
I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extraterrestrial intelligence.-- Richard Feynman
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Tyranny - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-19 09:05:00
He who fights against tyrants is holy, and he who tames the arrogant serves the Lord.-- Ernst Moritz ArndtThe tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny. -- Edmund BurkeFind out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.-- Frederick Douglass
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Typing - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-18 08:47:00
The typewriter, *ike all macæines, has amind of it sown ~Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, 1890-1971My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway. Frank Lane
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TV - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-17 10:09:00
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't workAll television is children?s television.-- Richard P. AdlerIn California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.~Woody AllenTelevision is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what the people do want.~Clive BarnesWhoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture. - Allen GinsbergTelevision-a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.~Ernie KovacsTelevision is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. Lee LoevingerI find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. (Julius Henry) Groucho Marx (1890-1977) Television ...

Truth- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-16 08:23:00
It's only arrogance if you're wrongFight truth decay. . study the Bible daily.Do you believe in truth?If so, why?What is truth?Is truth real?Can you prove truth?How? Who says?Is my truth different to your truth? If so, who is right? I think we must conclude wisely that as truth is incomprehensible we are not bound to regard it.Do you believe in love?If so, why?What is love?Is love real?Can you prove love?How? Who says?Is my love different to your love? If so, who is right? I think we must conclude wisely that as love is incomprehensible we are not bound to regard itWhen you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.--Arab proverbFear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it. -Arab proverbTell the truth and run. -- Yugoslav proverbSentences which simply express moral judgements do not say anything. They are pure expressions of feeling and as such do not come under the category of truth and falsehood. -- A J Ayer. Language, Truth and Logic, ch6, 1936No pleasu...

Trust - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-15 10:13:00
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. --Arabian proverb.Tust in God but lock your doors -- russian proverbPray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian ProverbTrust everybody, but cut the cards -- finley peter dunneWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. --Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
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Trolls - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-14 17:13:00
I post thought-provoking discussion starters, you are contentious, he trolls.- Graham Nye
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Trinity - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-13 08:25:00
What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity , if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skillful in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should this profit thee without the love and grace of God? ... Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of ChristThe doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world.... Robert P. Lightner (1931- )Every once in a while in my discussions someone asks how I can believe in the Trinity. My answer is always the same. I would still be an agnostic if there was no Trinity, because there would be no answers. Witho...

Archbishop?s Homeless Charity Suspends Christian for Answering Questions ab
2009-04-12 21:57:00
Christian Legal Centre says,'An employee at a Christian ?homeless? charity, whose Patron is the Archbishop of Canterbury, s been suspended for answering questions about his faith to a colleague at work. David Booker, aged 44, a Christian from Southampton , has worked for the English Churches Housing Group for almost four years .On 26 March, whilst working an evening shift, he had a 35 minute conversation with female colleague Fiona Vardy. Ms Vardy asked him about his faith and beliefs. During the conversation he was asked the Church?s teaching on homosexuality and same-sex marriages, which Mr Booker explained. The conversation was free-flowing and Mr Booker clearly explained that he had homosexual friends and that he was not homophobic. The following day he was summoned by his employers and told that he was suspended for ?events that happened last night?. On March 30, he was given a formal suspension notice alleging that: ? On 26 March 09, whilst on shift with Fiona Vardy, you...
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Transcendence - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-12 07:35:00
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.- Martin Buber, quoted in The Eclipse of Heaven, A J Conyers, Inter Varsity Press, 1992.What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope,and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world through the midst of the darkness upon the path illumined by the word and Spirit of God? - John Calvin on Hebrews 11:1.If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.- P T Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind, 1907The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power which come from participation in eternal realities. But this new age cannot any more successfully live on religious faiths that are out of harmony with known truth, or that hang loose in the air, cut apart from the fundamental intellectual culture of the age. The hour has struck for the serious b...

Tourism - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-11 09:37:00
Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? -George CarlinLike tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up-- Nietzsche
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Totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz