The crisis of conservatism on both sides of the pond | Melanie Phillips
The agony of the US Republicans, engulfed by an existential crisis since the second term victory of Barack Obama, reminds me so much of the UK Conservatives’ similar crisis after the accession of Tony Blair to power in 1997.
That victory ushered in a three-term Labour hegemony. The Tories, aghast at the inversion of the natural order by which they assumed they had a divine right to rule, looked in bewildered mortification upon the upstart Blair whom they found it impossible to dislodge -- and arrived at precisely the wrong conclusion about both conservatism and British society. It was a fundamental error that I believe the Conservative Party is still making – and if they aren’t careful, the US Republicans will fall into the same trap.
The root of the error was to misunderstand both why the Tories lost power in 1997 and the appeal of Tony Blair. They looked at Blair-- young, telegenic, hip, with his jeans and his guitar and his ‘hey man’ and his ‘I feel your pain’ -- and they were torn between thinking he was a cynical charlatan and alternatively that he won power because he was in tune with Britain’s shift towards a more caring, sharing, emoting, tolerant, liberal society.
Wrong on all counts. Blair won above all because the Tories had made themselves unelectable. The government of John Major, which took over after the reginacide of Margaret Thatcher, had become a national joke, an embarrassment, a synonym for sleaze, arrogance and supreme incompetence. Moreover, a number of Tory MPs just looked ... well, totally weird. The whole lot of them were viewed as totally beneath contempt and wholly unfit for government.
Blair saw his opportunity – but having concluded about his own party that its left-wing positions had made it unelectable, he took a leaf out his friend Bill Clinton’s book and triangulated his message. While remaining committed under the radar to extreme, indeed revolutionary left-wing positions – the erosion of sovereignty by closer union with the EU, mass third world immigration, multiculturalism, gay rights -- he sent out the (misleading) message that he was instinctively on the side of Middle Britain and would put right what worried them most. This was above all intolerable levels of crime and disorder and poor education standards, which in turn stood proxy for a feeling that society was breaking down.
Utterly failing to understand any of this, the Conservative party promptly fell apart. Not for nothing is it called ‘the stupid party’. Concluding that Blair possessed some shaman-like property to bewitch the electorate, and themselves still viewing every issue through the prism of economics (aka making money), they failed completely to grasp that socialism had not been defeated but had simply morphed into a mind-bending culture war against the fundamental tenets of western civilisation. Failing accordingly to grasp that language itself had been hijacked – with words such as ‘tolerance’, ‘equality’, freedom’, ‘compassion’ and many such others having been turned into their polar opposite and with the term ‘right-wing’ having become a synonym for ‘enemy of humanity’, they made two disastrous strategic errors.
The first was to circle the wagons by making shrill statements about issues like immigration or the EU. But these Tories seemed to be the same old clapped-out, weird and sleazy bunch that had been thrown out; and their shrillness was no more than a retreat to their old comfort-zone which they had themselves managed to discredit, rather than a proper dissection of the true threat posed to ordinary people by their purported left-wing champions, not just in politics but throughout the politically correct cultural establishment.
The second error they made was to reverse themselves and conclude, under David Cameron, that the reason they lost three general elections to Labour was that the Tories were seen as ‘the nasty’ party – and that they therefore had to ‘decontaminate the brand’ by being seen as tolerant, compassionate, equality and freedom-loving as the left. So the Cameroons swore undying commitment to the National Health Service, ring-fenced international aid, created a minister for (ie against) climate change, mounted campaigns against bankers and promoted gay rights.
And when they failed to win the 2010 general election, forcing them into coalition with the extreme left Liberal Democrats, the Cameroons said the reason was they hadn’t been left-wing enough. The outcome is widespread contempt on both left and right for the Conservative party– which has also managed to put itself on the wrong side of the culture war. It is significant in this regard that, even while Americans despair over their future under their President’s leadership, Cameron reportedly swoons over Obama’s political skills.
The recent history of the US Republicans is a very similar series of misreadings and strategic errors. Outraged and bamboozled in equal measure by the mysteriously enduring popularity of Bill Clinton, the Republicans decided that they too had to triangulate. The result was George W Bush’s ‘compassionate conservatism’ –his now almost forgotten signature motif before he was engulfed by Iraq – which became synonymous with big government and huge rises in public expenditure which all but bankrupted the country.
Facing a ruthlessly partisan media class that was determined to bring Bush down over Iraq and then to install Barack Obama through a wholesale corruption of truth and journalism, the Republicans panicked by circling their own wagons. Ill-served by the inflammatory shrillness of talk radio and Fox News, they failed to stamp upon the crazies and weirdos emerging in the slipstream of the mainstream Tea Party movement and allowed them to define the Republican Party in the public mind. They thus gave the impression they were incapable of thinking other than on extreme tramlines. And in the insulated arrogance of those who believe they are born to rule, they thought it was inconceivable they could lose.
Most disastrously of all, they failed to understand the true contours of the culture war. As a result, they failed to confront properly what needed to be confronted, while simultaneously making enemies of those who should have been their allies. So for example, the Republicans no less than the Democrats bought heavily into the lethal myth of the ‘moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood – while managing, through their undiscriminating anti-immigration posture, to hack off those many Hispanic voters who should have been their natural constituency because these voters are in many respects on the right side of the culture war.
Now there are signs that some Republicans at least are beginning to understand this. While siren voices still insist that the only way back to power is to commit ideological suicide, others like Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich appear to realise that the party has to change in ways which don’t have to sell the civilisational pass in order to connect with decency and reality.
We have yet to see whether, issue by issue, they finally get this right. But if they need a good example, they certainly should not look across the pond.
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Labour Bolton Councillors Mosques and houses are of equal importance
Does Cliff
know his priorities?
For over a year
Bolton Council has been conducting what it refers to a consultation exercise
called the Draft Allocations Plan. The Council’s reason for implementing the
Allocations Plan is apparently to establish parcels of land which would be
suitable for house building and incorporate public feed back into the
identification of such land.
On the
25th of November Anthony Backhouse wrote to the leader of Bolton
Council, Cliff Morris regarding an answer Mr Backhouse had received at one of
Bolton Boroughs Area Forums. Mr Backhouse had been attempting to establish why,
with land for house building at such a premium permission had been granted to
build a Mosque on land which could have accommodated 12 or 13 houses on Gilnow
Rd in Bolton. It was part of the reply from Councillor Kevin McKeon which
prompted Mr Backhouse to write to the leader of the council.
Mr Backhouse asked
Councillor McKeon ‘are you of the
opinion that providing provision for Mosques is as important as providing
housing?’ To which Councillor McKeon replied ‘yes I am’.
The implications which might derive from such
an outlook could be very serious; as outlined in this section of Mr Backhouse’s
letter: ‘I would like to point out that
it is my understanding that about 9% of the population of the Bolton Borough are
Muslim, and if Councillor McKeon’s opinion that providing Mosques and houses are
of equal importance is an opinion shared by yourself and those people
responsible for drawing up the Draft Allocations Plan I believe this should have
been factored into the consultation exercise. Having studied the Allocations
Plan I can see no reference to providing Mosques.’
On the
30th December Mr Backhouse received this two sentence reply from
Councillor Morris’s office: ‘The
Allocations Plan is only required to show land set aside for housing. As you
have noted it does not nor should it include places of worship.’
So the leader of
Bolton Council has overtly avoided being candid about whether he agrees with his
Labour colleague that building Mosques is as important as building houses. With
so many Mosques currently dominating Bolton’s skyline Cliff Morris’s evasive
approach to such a serious question must be viewed as being of grave concern,
not only to all those people who do not whish to see our country dominated by
Islamic theocracy but also to those in Bolton who believe the Draft Allocations
Plan might be little more than a PR sham.
Sunday 30 December 2012
I Am Freeman JOHN HARRIS : It's an Illusion | 2009 (FULL VERSION)
A must watch video showing the slavery of the British People enforced by by stealth .
Friday 28 December 2012
Communist Victory Amerika 2
Communist Victory Amerika 2
"There are meaningful warnings that
history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance,
the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and
evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture
is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden
crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The
smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite
unstable and unhealthy."
Invasion has begun
"But the fight for our planet, physical
and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of
the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their
decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens
and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What
is the joy about?"
Liberation into Moral Poverty
"..in early democracies, ...all
individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That
is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the
assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the
heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty
years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an
individual could be granted boundless freedom simply for the
satisfaction of his instincts or whims. Subsequently, however, all such
limitations were discarded everywhere in the West; a total liberation
occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great
reserves of mercy and sacrifice. State systems were becoming
increasingly and totally materialistic. The West ended up by truly
enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of
responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past
decades, the legalistically selfish aspect of Western approach and
thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a
harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified
technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer
space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one
could imagine even as late as in the Nineteenth Century."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
, one of the greatest writers of our time, stood up to the tyranny that
enslaved his country. He exposed the atrocities being done on his
homeland in the gulags and slave camps. Over thirty years ago he warned
others in this new country only to be ridiculed as being a "boy scout"
and ignorant of the real world. He did not serve their purpose. He was
ignored or laughed at. When he returned home he received the highest
award in Russia, "The Order of St. Andrew".
Russia's Freedom Costly
How did Russia free itself from an atheistic government? Through the blood of martyrs and prayers of the faithful,
Russia's penance purified its soul and allowed it to embrace its
Savior. Like the prodigal son Russia came to its senses and went home to
his Father. The living are at peace and the tortured and murdered faithful are in paradise.
"These are they who are come out of
great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white
in the blood of the Lamb. And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow
shall be any more, for the former things are passed away; And I heard a
voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of
great thunder; Singing the canticle of Moses and the canticle of the
Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty;
just and true are thy ways, O King of ages. Who shall not fear thee, O
Lord, and magnify thy name? For only thou art Holy!"
The last priest of St Basil's Cathedral
was Fr Ioann Vostorgov. He had written earlier, "..,there is not and
cannot be complete and absolute freedom for man, that it is limited and
must be directed by the Law of God". The free thinking and lovers of
mankind, the Communists, did not like what he said so they shot him in
1918. How tolerant they were. All liberals are this way. They talk about
the best for mankind and give speeches on tolerance, equality and
justice for all while they fill their pockets with riches and impoverish
the rest. If you disagree with them they ignore you, shout at you or
prefer you dead.
Witnesses
Many other witnesses came forth like
Solzhenitsyn who had won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Others
were more demonstrative. In 1990 a monk from the Russian Orthodox
monastery at Zagorsk, carrying a life-sized crucifix seven feet tall
travelled to Moscow. He stood before Lenin's tomb and straightened the
cross before all to see. He raised his head and shouted to Gorbachev
and his cronies in a voice of thunder: " Mikhail Sergeyevich, Christ is
Risen! " A year later the Soviet Union fell.
Conclusion
Is there a Communist in every closet?
No, but the threat was a horrible reality in Russia as it is now in
Amerika. Do they admit they are Communists? How naïve you are if you
think they will openly say that word. Many do not even know that they
are. They prefer to ridicule anyone who uses the word "Communist". The
peaceful solution is to repent from sin.
Penance is necessary. Laugh if you will
all you cynics and enjoy your suffering! "Christ's death on the cross is
nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it
is God's power" - St Paul. Christianity is the only religion where God
sacrifices his son to have us share eternal life with Him. Scream your
hearts out all you adversaries and possessed and declare our
imperfections and failures! Side with the accuser the devil and enjoy
your torment tomorrow! The effects of Communism were already manifested
in Russia during the last century. To ignore it or to think somehow it
will work elsewhere is to condemn oneself to complete darkness.
There are physical laws and there are
also spiritual laws that govern this universe. Ignore the spiritual laws
if you will but they still exist unseen as the wind. The physical world
is a shadow of the spiritual world. As Malachi Martin, the author of Hostage to the Devil
wrote, "A bird flies not because it has wings, but because it is a
bird". There is nothing new under the sun. Human nature is the same
throughout the annals of antiquity. The people of Rome no longer have
slaves and persecute Christians in the arena. Follow Russia's lead out
of the same tyrannical darkness. Repent or be enslaved. I remind those
in the USA who have remained faithful:
"But they that hope in the Lord
shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall
run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." -Isaiah 40:31
Solzhenitsyn's Own Words:
Thursday 27 December 2012
Communist Victory Amerika 1
Communist Victory Amerika 1
By Xavier Lerma
Once upon a time there
once was a country so beautiful with spacious skies, with purple
mountain majesties where everyone sang "God shed his grace on thee". It
promoted freedom of religion and allowed Christianity to grow. It gave
opportunities for everyone to better themselves in education and create
businesses that not only made them rich but allowed those in poverty to
prosper and become middle class citizens. It became the richest country
in the world and millions immigrated to this land. On the other side of
the world was an evil government that enslaved its people. It saw this
nation as a threat to its plan of world domination but knew conquering
it could never be done militarily. "Before we can assume power we must
corrupt" they said.
They began to invade the country as a
virus infects a body. Like the plague it engulfed the whole land and the
strongest lamented over the nation's weakness. These creatures twisted
the words freedom into the freedom to do every vice and evil the wicked
could conceive. It turned everything upside down. Good was bad. Men
became women. Women became men. Sodom and Gomorrah was rebuilt.
Capitalism was no longer there to help others but selfishness grew and
greed vomited out its illicit pleasures of entertainment that blinded
the minds of millions. Those who could not be perverted were given
comforts and toys that would satisfy them. Souls became empty and they
reached out for anything that gave them temporary peace again and again.
Through all the invaders efforts there were still noises of discontent. Their shadow government, their "Shadow Party"
was not completely effective. There were people who could see the
sinister changes in their country. They saw the rising tide of violence.
They saw how families were being destroyed as the devil rocked every
cradle. The sane were considered insane. The foolish were praised as
philosophers. Judges were deranged and released from prison murderers,
rapists and child molesters back into the public to kill, rape and
sexually assault children. Good people watched in horror on TV. Was it a
movie, TV show or was it reality? Like a cat toying with a mouse before
it's killed, millions were entranced before meeting their end.
These invaders had to move forward
quickly. Their focus on conquering the world weakened their own
government. Their very own people had overthrown its yoke of slavery and
became free to worship Christ and people were normal again. They were
strangers to their own land so they had no choice but to make their home
in this foreign country they sought to destroy. No matter. This new
country had more power to destroy and influence the world. It is richer
and easier to control. They swiftly sat themselves upon the throne and
boasted their intentions without fear of being exposed. Their plan of
world domination could now be done militarily. "Conquest through
corruption was yesterday's game" they said, "We can assume power through
military force anywhere, anytime". Promising peace while attacking
nations. Promising prosperity while creating poverty. We shall destroy
them and they will cheer louder than any people in history.
If only it was a fairy tale
Those who worshipped their leader
lay before him like a whore and gave up their children. They never
questioned his background and accepted his lies wholeheartedly. The
words of Russian Bishop Ignaty Bryanchaninov in 1927 ring ever so
clearly today, "Whoever does not obtain the kingdom of God within
oneself will not recognize the Antichrist and will inevitably, become
his follower". The presidential elections in Amerika are a set up and
always have been after Kennedy was shot.
Americans think the Soviets were not
angry about the Cuban missile crisis. While it is true the Soviets did
not want a nuclear war they did move Kennedy out of the way and they
attacked America within and conquered it. Now they always point at the
new Russia with cries of "foul play!" and "stolen elections!". The
Communist trick is to accuse their innocent opponent of the illegal
activity they themselves are involved in.
Russia in their presidential elections
had cameras in every voting station. Anyone could log in and see it. I
did it myself. 600,000 Russians volunteered to monitor the Presidential
Elections Online. ID and Russian language only was required. Paper
ballots avoided fraud. Electronic voting in Amerika is a joke. Foreign
observers were accepted in Russia and rejected in Communist Amerika. Any Russian
could sign up to volunteer to watch out for voter fraud in person. In
the end the election reflected the opinion polls from dozens of
independent sources in Russia. Putin was the most popular and he was
elected.
In Amerika there are only 2 main
parties. Oh sure, there are others but one would never know it the way
the Amerikan media hides them. . Russia had 5 parties that qualified for
the presidential elections. The mainstream media in Amerika demonized
Putin and insulted Russians in this video. Amerika will never show Putin like this video or this on TV.
Amerika calls it Russian propaganda. Again, the Communist trick is to
accuse their opponent of illegal activity they themselves are involved
in. The Communists were the bully in school who first threw a rock at a
little boy and then immediately blamed the little boy for doing it.
It's the Communist way. It's the Chicago way. They blame others for
being a racist when they are really bigots themselves.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King
said "character" was more important than the color of one's skin. The
Communists had him shot. They tried to help him at first thinking they
could use him to divide America. However, if "character" is more
important, then they cannot divide the masses and promote social strife.
They need to color code the masses and divide them just as Stalin did
when he divided Russia by its ethnic boundaries. They need the blacks to
hate whites not peace. Americans have been brainwashed by the
Communists to be Amerikans in the new USSA, United Socialist States of Amerika.
Some people have been fooled to think
that there is a cultural difference that will not allow the races to
coexist. Most Hispanics, who are traditionally conservative, ally
themselves with a Democratic party that promotes abortion and gay
marriage. Again, they too have been happily misled. All Democrats, most
Republicans and 90% of blacks hate or ignore intelligent and successful
blacks like Dr. Alveda King, Alan Keyes, Allen West, and Wayne Perryman . Alan Keyes called Obama a "radical Communist"in this video in
2009 and he is correct, but no one ever acknowledged him. Intelligent
minorities that can see through the Communist lies are ignored or
attacked. Their own race attacks and laughs at them in almost the same
way Christ was attacked by His own people before He was crucified.
Corrosion of Evil
Brave souls spoke out against this new
regime but it was too late. They were in the minority. They failed to
listen over 30 years ago when a prisoner from the invading country was
exiled with them. He spoke out and tried to warn them before this day
came.
"Destructive and irresponsible freedom
has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense
against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of
liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of
pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom
and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to
look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its
inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil."
Free love, sex, drugs and rock and
roll. "This is a free country, man!", they all shouted. All manner of
illicit behavior was expressed publicly. They did not care what others
said because they have rights to do as they want. "Daddy does not exist
so we can do anything". These childish mentalities only rotted away
their lives and society. The foreign invaders had already taught them in
school all they needed to know. Their seed had been sown in
universities, colleges and public schools years ago.
Mainstream Media
"In-depth analysis of a problem is
anathema to the press. It stops at sensational formulas. Such as it is,
however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western
countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the
judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected
and to whom is it responsible?"
He knew the mainstream media was
controlled by the Communists and he was trying to awaken the minds of
the satisfied and well fed masses. These talking heads he warned about
could but only serve their master too well. They were journalists who
had sold their souls to the devil. They were given the power to change
America and they did.
Communism failed in Russia so the
mainstream media in Amerika always shows protesters in Russia to
Americans without telling them the protesters are Communists or that the
protesters are paid by the Amerikan embassy. The Amerikan media never
shows religious gatherings in Russia or Putin in Jerusalem video.
They hate the fact that Christian Russia overcame Communism. They also
twist the words of America's founding Fathers, "separation of church
and state" to mean that Christianity is outlawed in public. Deep down in
their hearts they want to eliminate Christianity. It is the "opium of
the people".
Destruction of the Human Spirit
"I hope that no one present will suspect
me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present
socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a
country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not
speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member
of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the
title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of
any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and
to a leveling of mankind into death. "
Oh do put a sock in it, you atheist Scrooge | Melanie Phillips
Oh do put a sock in it, you atheist Scrooge | Melanie Phillips
You really would need to have a heart harder than the five-pence piece in the Christmas pud not to feel sorry at present for Professor Richard Dawkins.
Christmas must be such a terrible trial for the planet’s most celebrated — and angriest — atheist. All that cheerfulness and pleasure associated with Christianity’s main celebration seems to drive him simply nuts.
Indeed, just a few days ago he lunged into yet another wild denunciation of religious faith. This time, the Chief Inquisitor of Unbelief declared that raising a child as a Catholic was worse than subjecting it to sexual abuse.
His view of religion is as cheerless as it is unbalanced. As countless others prepare for an enjoyable and — dare one say it — even spiritually uplifting holiday, Professor Dawkins seems to become all the more miserable.
If Charles Dickens were writing A Christmas Carol today, surely he would have replaced Ebenezer Scrooge with the figure of the joyless, rage-fuelled Dawkins spitting out ‘Bah, humbug!’ at families sitting down to the Christmas turkey.
After last week’s census details which showed that Christianity in Britain is in decline, Dawkins rejoiced that it was ‘on the way out in this country’.
Well, this is tantamount to rejoicing that Britain and western civilisation are on the way out. For Christianity underpins their most fundamental moral values — ones that both believers and non-believers hold dear, such as the difference between right and wrong, respect for other people and doing good things rather than bad.
It is also woven into Britain’s literature, art, music, history and national identity.
What’s more, despite the decline in believers, nearly two-thirds of the population still describe themselves as Christian. If Britain stops being a mainly Christian country, then it will stop being recognisably Britain.
It is not just Dawkins and his followers, however, who are dancing prematurely on Christianity’s grave.
In the eyes of just about the entire governing class, cultural milieu and intelligentsia, belief in Christianity is viewed at best as an embarrassment, and at worst as proof positive of imbecility.
Indeed, Christianity has long been the target of sneering comedians, blasphemous artists and the entire human rights industry — all determined to turn it into a despised activity to be pursued only by consenting adults in private.
As it happens, I myself am not a Christian; I am a Jew. And Jews have suffered terribly under Christianity in the past.
Yet I passionately believe that if Britain and the West are to continue to be civilised places, it is imperative that the decline in Christianity be reversed.
For it is the Judeo-Christian ethic which gave us belief in the innate equality of all human beings, the need to put others’ welfare before your own and the understanding of absolute truth.
Without this particular religious underpinning, our society will lose the moral bonds that instil respect and care for other human beings. Without a belief in absolute truth, it will succumb to the dominance of lies.
And it will also lose the understanding, embodied in both Judaism and Christianity, that government should be distinct from religious rule — a belief which eventually helped pave the way for democracy.
Lose Christianity, and what remains will be a vacuum which will result in religious, secular and ethnic groups fighting each other — and with the most brutal and ruthless filling the void.
Of course, non-believers can be good people, and believers can behave atrociously.
But non-believers who subscribe to the basic moral tenets of western society are subscribing — whether they like it or not — to the values given to the world by Judaism and Christianity.
Such people may not believe in God, but they were not born with these moral values encoded in their DNA. They are inescapably shaped by the Judeo-Christian culture in which such unbelievers have grown up.
Without that culture, our society would be a savage and uncivilised place, governed by selfishness, self-centredness and narcissism.
Indeed, I would go even further. Rather than religion and reason being diametrically opposed to each other — as non-believers contend — it was, in fact, the Hebrew Bible which gave us reason in the first place, by introducing the then revolutionary idea that the world had been created by a rational intelligence in linear time.
It was this belief that gave us the idea that the universe was governed by natural laws, which in turn gave rise to science and modernity.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the alarming slide in Christian belief has gone hand in hand with both the relentless coarsening and brutalisation of our culture and the progressive flight from rationality — as demonstrated by the prevalence of conspiracy theories, resistance to factual evidence, and belief in the occult. In other words, people who stop believing in God start making religions of other things.
For the religious instinct seems to be hard-wired in us. Some 70 per cent believe in a soul, and more than half in life after death, and these numbers are rising.
Although many no longer go regularly to church, some 85 per cent go at least once a year — perhaps to the Christmas carol service. Despite its regrettable over-commercialisation, Christmas may be the one time when some people are exposed to the Christian message.
Many would like that message to be stronger; and not just at Christmas. But for religion to thrive, there has to be strong leadership. And both in the political and religious spheres, that has been sorely lacking.
Christmas is quintessentially the time when people get together with their families. And families are at the very heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
But for years, political leaders have done everything in their power to undermine the family by promoting nihilistic sexual licence. Even David Cameron’s supposedly ‘family-friendly’ but in fact socially liberal policies hardly correspond to Judeo-Christian principles.
Of course, we don’t expect our politicians to be religious leaders. But if society is to adhere to basic moral principles, politicians have to uphold them. Yet so much of the political class is now governed by the desire for power for its own sake, rather than to make a better world.
The leadership of the Church itself has hardly been any better. But there are high hopes of the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who appears to have a more robust and muscular understanding of Christianity than did his predecessor.
The challenge he faces, however, is much more profound than the divisions over women or gays in the clergy. These are but symptoms of the real malaise afflicting the Church of England — which is nothing less than a loss of belief in its own Scriptural doctrines.
This deep demoralisation can be traced all the way back to the birth of modernity itself, in the 18th century.
In contemporary times, it is why the Church has grovelled on the one hand to godless liberalism, and on the other to Islam. Desperately trying to appease both to stave off its own demise, the Church has succeeded instead in creating a vacuum which has only hastened it.
The single most urgent task for Bishop Welby is surely to find a language with which the Church can reach out to all those millions who are searching for something outside themselves in which to believe but who no longer find it in Christianity.
This is not just about saving the Church of England. It is about saving the culture, identity and civilisation of Britain and the West.
You really would need to have a heart harder than the five-pence piece in the Christmas pud not to feel sorry at present for Professor Richard Dawkins.
Christmas must be such a terrible trial for the planet’s most celebrated — and angriest — atheist. All that cheerfulness and pleasure associated with Christianity’s main celebration seems to drive him simply nuts.
Indeed, just a few days ago he lunged into yet another wild denunciation of religious faith. This time, the Chief Inquisitor of Unbelief declared that raising a child as a Catholic was worse than subjecting it to sexual abuse.
His view of religion is as cheerless as it is unbalanced. As countless others prepare for an enjoyable and — dare one say it — even spiritually uplifting holiday, Professor Dawkins seems to become all the more miserable.
If Charles Dickens were writing A Christmas Carol today, surely he would have replaced Ebenezer Scrooge with the figure of the joyless, rage-fuelled Dawkins spitting out ‘Bah, humbug!’ at families sitting down to the Christmas turkey.
After last week’s census details which showed that Christianity in Britain is in decline, Dawkins rejoiced that it was ‘on the way out in this country’.
Well, this is tantamount to rejoicing that Britain and western civilisation are on the way out. For Christianity underpins their most fundamental moral values — ones that both believers and non-believers hold dear, such as the difference between right and wrong, respect for other people and doing good things rather than bad.
It is also woven into Britain’s literature, art, music, history and national identity.
What’s more, despite the decline in believers, nearly two-thirds of the population still describe themselves as Christian. If Britain stops being a mainly Christian country, then it will stop being recognisably Britain.
It is not just Dawkins and his followers, however, who are dancing prematurely on Christianity’s grave.
In the eyes of just about the entire governing class, cultural milieu and intelligentsia, belief in Christianity is viewed at best as an embarrassment, and at worst as proof positive of imbecility.
Indeed, Christianity has long been the target of sneering comedians, blasphemous artists and the entire human rights industry — all determined to turn it into a despised activity to be pursued only by consenting adults in private.
As it happens, I myself am not a Christian; I am a Jew. And Jews have suffered terribly under Christianity in the past.
Yet I passionately believe that if Britain and the West are to continue to be civilised places, it is imperative that the decline in Christianity be reversed.
For it is the Judeo-Christian ethic which gave us belief in the innate equality of all human beings, the need to put others’ welfare before your own and the understanding of absolute truth.
Without this particular religious underpinning, our society will lose the moral bonds that instil respect and care for other human beings. Without a belief in absolute truth, it will succumb to the dominance of lies.
And it will also lose the understanding, embodied in both Judaism and Christianity, that government should be distinct from religious rule — a belief which eventually helped pave the way for democracy.
Lose Christianity, and what remains will be a vacuum which will result in religious, secular and ethnic groups fighting each other — and with the most brutal and ruthless filling the void.
Of course, non-believers can be good people, and believers can behave atrociously.
But non-believers who subscribe to the basic moral tenets of western society are subscribing — whether they like it or not — to the values given to the world by Judaism and Christianity.
Such people may not believe in God, but they were not born with these moral values encoded in their DNA. They are inescapably shaped by the Judeo-Christian culture in which such unbelievers have grown up.
Without that culture, our society would be a savage and uncivilised place, governed by selfishness, self-centredness and narcissism.
Indeed, I would go even further. Rather than religion and reason being diametrically opposed to each other — as non-believers contend — it was, in fact, the Hebrew Bible which gave us reason in the first place, by introducing the then revolutionary idea that the world had been created by a rational intelligence in linear time.
It was this belief that gave us the idea that the universe was governed by natural laws, which in turn gave rise to science and modernity.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the alarming slide in Christian belief has gone hand in hand with both the relentless coarsening and brutalisation of our culture and the progressive flight from rationality — as demonstrated by the prevalence of conspiracy theories, resistance to factual evidence, and belief in the occult. In other words, people who stop believing in God start making religions of other things.
For the religious instinct seems to be hard-wired in us. Some 70 per cent believe in a soul, and more than half in life after death, and these numbers are rising.
Although many no longer go regularly to church, some 85 per cent go at least once a year — perhaps to the Christmas carol service. Despite its regrettable over-commercialisation, Christmas may be the one time when some people are exposed to the Christian message.
Many would like that message to be stronger; and not just at Christmas. But for religion to thrive, there has to be strong leadership. And both in the political and religious spheres, that has been sorely lacking.
Christmas is quintessentially the time when people get together with their families. And families are at the very heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
But for years, political leaders have done everything in their power to undermine the family by promoting nihilistic sexual licence. Even David Cameron’s supposedly ‘family-friendly’ but in fact socially liberal policies hardly correspond to Judeo-Christian principles.
Of course, we don’t expect our politicians to be religious leaders. But if society is to adhere to basic moral principles, politicians have to uphold them. Yet so much of the political class is now governed by the desire for power for its own sake, rather than to make a better world.
The leadership of the Church itself has hardly been any better. But there are high hopes of the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who appears to have a more robust and muscular understanding of Christianity than did his predecessor.
The challenge he faces, however, is much more profound than the divisions over women or gays in the clergy. These are but symptoms of the real malaise afflicting the Church of England — which is nothing less than a loss of belief in its own Scriptural doctrines.
This deep demoralisation can be traced all the way back to the birth of modernity itself, in the 18th century.
In contemporary times, it is why the Church has grovelled on the one hand to godless liberalism, and on the other to Islam. Desperately trying to appease both to stave off its own demise, the Church has succeeded instead in creating a vacuum which has only hastened it.
The single most urgent task for Bishop Welby is surely to find a language with which the Church can reach out to all those millions who are searching for something outside themselves in which to believe but who no longer find it in Christianity.
This is not just about saving the Church of England. It is about saving the culture, identity and civilisation of Britain and the West.
Friday 21 December 2012
COLUMBINE SHOOTINGS STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !!
COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER
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Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of ...the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.
"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.
"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death.
Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.
I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.
"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"
- Darrell Scott
Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can.
God Bless
Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of ...the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.
"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.
"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death.
Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.
I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.
"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"
- Darrell Scott
Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can.
God Bless
Thursday 20 December 2012
Sunday 16 December 2012
Sandy Hook elementary school shooting , a Suspicion!
By Horwich Nationalists
As concerning the Sandy School shootings ,This is awful and a tragedy! innocent blood spilled!
And what I write will be as most likely be treated at first with revulsion, and duely noted as I suspect I would also normally do so say this was 1976.
But! I have a strange and suspicion in my mind, the same thing happened at Hungerford and Dunblane over here in the UK .
With the perpetrator been found dead by committing suicide. And apparently the same profile of the shooter white socially isolated male. .
And in both cases was then followed by draconian gun laws.that severely restricted the publics accessibility to fire arms. on the grounds that stopped any threat to the public.
I am sorry but I am very suspicious about such heartbreaking tragedies now.
As they never happened as i recall, before the clamour for gun control both here and the USA. As in both cases soon after you get the liberal elitist politicians with fake sympathy , I am sorry but I rely do think it is so, to them it is an opportunity to forward their agenda of slavery!
I put this forward as something to consider that is all . As I do not put anything past a govt that will bomb a wedding party in Afghanistan to get there one objective.When the overall objective achieved here and especially desired in the USA by the Liberal elites is to remove the 2nd amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. In which it's citizens have the right to bear arms, in case of a tyrannical government.
One only has to see how helpless we the people in the UK are against our own tyrannical Government of elitists, with their heavily armed political police force. Who are determined on an agenda on racial and cultural genocide of the indigenous British people.To realise the awful quote of Lenin " One man with a gun can control a hundred with out one." And then concerning gun laws and the no access of firearms to the responsible adult population to a nation, one can only be suspicious now about these all to common events that seem to happen ONLY WHEN CALLS FOR GUN CONTROL ARE BING PUSHED FOR BY THE ELITE!
As concerning the Sandy School shootings ,This is awful and a tragedy! innocent blood spilled!
And what I write will be as most likely be treated at first with revulsion, and duely noted as I suspect I would also normally do so say this was 1976.
But! I have a strange and suspicion in my mind, the same thing happened at Hungerford and Dunblane over here in the UK .
With the perpetrator been found dead by committing suicide. And apparently the same profile of the shooter white socially isolated male. .
And in both cases was then followed by draconian gun laws.that severely restricted the publics accessibility to fire arms. on the grounds that stopped any threat to the public.
I am sorry but I am very suspicious about such heartbreaking tragedies now.
As they never happened as i recall, before the clamour for gun control both here and the USA. As in both cases soon after you get the liberal elitist politicians with fake sympathy , I am sorry but I rely do think it is so, to them it is an opportunity to forward their agenda of slavery!
I put this forward as something to consider that is all . As I do not put anything past a govt that will bomb a wedding party in Afghanistan to get there one objective.When the overall objective achieved here and especially desired in the USA by the Liberal elites is to remove the 2nd amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. In which it's citizens have the right to bear arms, in case of a tyrannical government.
One only has to see how helpless we the people in the UK are against our own tyrannical Government of elitists, with their heavily armed political police force. Who are determined on an agenda on racial and cultural genocide of the indigenous British people.To realise the awful quote of Lenin " One man with a gun can control a hundred with out one." And then concerning gun laws and the no access of firearms to the responsible adult population to a nation, one can only be suspicious now about these all to common events that seem to happen ONLY WHEN CALLS FOR GUN CONTROL ARE BING PUSHED FOR BY THE ELITE!
Saturday 15 December 2012
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