We are all back at work now, after our Christmas break. You might think that a bit of Christmas spirit would have lasted into the New year, but it seems to have evaporated and there is a lot of sharp argument on a host of topics. I feel really sorry for the New leader of the House, Lord Hill, who has to deal with all the aggro.
On a different note, this afternoon i went to a reception by the Plymouth Bretheren,a Christian Church, who have had their charitable status removed. They spoke about all the good work they do and were very persuasive that they should have their status rstored.
One of our local churches, which was/is Plymouth Brethren is a very aggressive business enterprise involved with a very substantial property development. The five elders are business partners.
Like the United Reform church about 25 years ago, it may be that the time has come for them to move on and they find they are on to very considerable “profits” if they choose to take them, and share them round.
They probably want the charitable status restored to an empty shell of a church, ie to the people of it, rather than the capital
value!!
A bit like the rugby clubs in 1995, when their amateur status was abandoned.
The chairmen gave the “Club/Association” status away, privatised the business with shares distributed mainly to themselves by subtle agreements with carefully selected general meetings and then (by contrast( claimed the capital/chattel value of the PLAYERS, for themselves, which is very substantial indeed.
It is about time there was a stirring in the heart of that house and that tempers are on edge. The way things are going something better give for we are all lost if this endless nothingness isn’t addressed.
As far as Christianity is concerned, that has been killed off. We are in the throws of of the end of it as we know it. Once you remove the right of association and the right to a creed not interfered with by clearly insane politicians you lose on every level. And they have lost this war. Mostly from their own division inside and veering from the biblical message.
The flock will fall away and nothing but those who have no true interest in its premise will begin to play games with it until they make it a comedy show. Those with any real faith in the Christian teaching will have left to join the RC group. The ones who are, borderline touched, will look at the more extreme religious context and move to them. And that will be it.
The void will be filled by another faith, probably Islam, which is their intention as living in a so called Godless country cannot be accepted by their group.
All religions are ballooning more ‘hole-y’ than righteous;
From the Islamist, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, “Scientologist’, Quakers, Hussites, Moonies, and Plymouth Brethren et al to the Atheist. Agnostic, and Humanist ‘faiths’
all fall badly short of Sustainworthy Individual Human Development,Sustainable Collective Human Development, and of both Preservational & Conservational Environmental Philosophy and Practise.
Is it possible that the Plymouth Brethren mentioned have actually been making progress in meeting these as it were ‘newly-necessary’ sustainworthinesses ?
and have simply been scapegoated, ‘victimised’ as (as it were) one of the ‘Darwinian small and weak’ ?
Christianity is a hot topic at the moment with the Human Rights Act condemning the notion to choose a moral path and have priniciples that go against a politically correct doctrine that closes its eyes to the fact that Europe’s culture and civilisation is based on Christian beliefs. This idea persecutes a majority of religious people in Europe as well as here in the UK. Yet, this fact was ignored and, once again, democracy is sidelined for the few who claim they are an elite.
Listen to the smug, over confident, Polly Toynbee, in this documentary as she sits so full of herself. What she so blatantly refuses to address is, secularism is as dogmatic as the most extreme of religions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nA7rqqNTZg
Yet at the same time, a hairdresser must hire a Muslim wearing a veil covering that hides the fact she has hair as that hair is seen as shameful to expose. Doesn’t matter this idea is akin to the covering of a dining table leg (Victorian practice) because it may arouse male sexuality leading to rape. Islam in Europe and the UK, with its subjugation of women, is acceptable in the enforced covering of a womans head. Yet wearing a small cross around the neck is seen as intolerable.
To go one step further, how many Englishmen would be able to join guards at the palace wearing a turban? No matter his religion.
Our European identity is being trounced in the name of tolerance and equality. Yet, that equality is not extended to the existing culture. We are being forced to absorb society and cultures of other nations rather than their acceptance in this culture being contingent on their absorbing ours.
Removing the identity of a host culture will not work on any level, as the outcome will prove intolerable to the civilisation in which it exists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9eSbIJOsHo
Our European identity is being trounced in the name of tolerance and equality.
The UNHCR (Human rights) would never have been successfully introduced to the UK without it being passed down to UK courts by the European legislature.
I understand what ME is saying though in that
European wide culturalism finds it hard to co-exist with the conservation of ethnic minority traditions, such as language, dress,and food.
Just think how diffiult it is for the Taliban who are murdering anti-polio campaigners,for going door to door with their innoculation kits. It is a very hard and uncompromising way of thinking, possibly about genetic legacy ,which is hard to understand.