Is Romney deliberately dishonest or is he simply ignorant about historical Christianity? Mitt Romney is a Mormon and is running for the Republican nomination, so he can run for US president in the coming elections.Yesterday his religion was discussed on BBC Radio4 as here in the UK some are wondering how his religion could affect [...]
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Mitt Romney Republican hopeful believes Jesus is son of God. Oh does he?
Posted: 13th October 2011 by graham in Culture, Global, news_commentGovernment blocks free speech debate on Section 5
Posted: 6th October 2011 by graham in Culture, news_comment, preach_it!Two weeks ago police banned a Christian café in Blackpool from displaying Bible verses. Acting on a complaint from someone claiming to be an aggrieved individual, police officers warned the Owner of the Salt & Light Coffee House, Jamie Murray, that he was breaching Section 5 of the Public Order Act. See my previous post [...]
Police in Lancashire told the owner of a Christian café in Blackpool that displaying Bible texts is a breach of public order laws. What planet are they on?! The café is called the Salt & Light Coffee House. Its owner, Jamie Murray uses a set of DVDs that display the words of the New Testament [...]
Let your jaw drop as you listen to this uncaring banker
Posted: 27th September 2011 by graham in Culture, Global, news_commentBBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: “The Collapse Is Coming…And Goldman Rules The World”
Does Dawkins make bigotry sound respectable?
Posted: 19th September 2011 by graham in Culture, news_comment, preach_it!Richard Dawkins may be a fool in the biblical sense but he is not unintelligent so I wonder what his tactic is with his current campaign to get any other but his own views excluded from science teaching in schools. It sounds to me like he is playing a long game and is aiming at [...]
Norwegian massacre & odd BBC Radio4 announcement
Posted: 23rd July 2011 by graham in Church, news_commentWas it biased BBC reporting or was it simply an unwise gaff? I heard news of the tragedy unfolding as it was reported on, my favourite station, radio 4. But I was rather alarmed to hear the wording of the headline announcement. The perpetrator was described as a “fundamentalist Christian”. As a Christian I would [...]
General Lord Richard Dannatt on the Moral and Spiritual Vacuum
Posted: 15th November 2011 by graham in Culture, news_commentIn the 2011 Theos annual lecture delivered last week, General Lord Richard Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff, said the Armed Forces could no longer presume that new recruits “would have absorbed an understanding of the core values and standards of behaviour required by the military from their family or from within their wider [...]