Who the hell is this deluded dude? Who the hell is this joker? – © Mark Alexander
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Donald Trump ‘Is a Good Christian,’ Claims His Spiritual Advisor | Pastor Mark Burns
Who the hell is this deluded dude? Who the hell is this joker? – © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
God Bless America: How the US Is Obsessed with Religion | ENDEVR Documentary
The USA is falling into darkness! And whatever happens in the USA, it isn’t long before the rest of the West catches up; so, the rest of the Occident will soon be on the same trajectory.
The version of Christianity of these fundamentalists bears no resemblance to the Christianity I was raised in. I was raised in the Anglican tradition. In Anglicanism, there are plenty of myths and tall stories too; but they are generally either overlooked or considered to be symbolic. They are not taken literally. These fundamentalist Christians in the US, however, are clearly incapable of sifting fact from fiction. Sad! Little wonder the USA is in the mess it is. No wonder these people are hoodwinked by, and taken in by, Trump.
It wouldn’t be so bad if Trump’s re-election just impacted and messed up the States. Alas, it won’t end there. The re-election of Trump is highly likely to mess up the West in toto. Let us all hope that America comes to its senses before that. – © Mark Alexander
Thursday, December 07, 2023
Mohamad Faridi in Discussion with Nonie Darwish on Islamic Values and Biblical Values
This excellent discussion is a very important one for Westerners to be able to understand the true nature of Islam. Both Nonie Darwish — a famous authoress — and Mohamad Faridi are former Muslims who have seen the light and have converted to Christianity.
This discussion cuts through the politically correct and woke nonsense Westerners are fed to get to the truth about Islam, to its true nature. It shows us not what people want to believe about Islam, but what people should believe about it. Enjoy the discussion! – © Mark Alexander
Monday, December 04, 2023
The Lincoln Project: Christian Trump
Friday, December 01, 2023
Douglas Murray: The Legacy of Christianity | #shorts
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Cruelty and Heartlessness in a Post-Christian World
MARK ALEXANDER: I should like to write a few words on my observations on government policies in our post-Christian Britain.
The news today that our Supreme Court has determined that this country’s government policy of sending unwanted asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful is as welcome as it is encouraging. These days, our increasingly populist, right-wing government, which appears to have no understanding of traditional, one-nation conservatism, and certainly no recollection of it, come up with some pretty heartless and hare-brained ideas and policies. Most of these people are Thatcher’s babies, people who have taken the worst of Thatcher’s uncaring policies and are busy peppering them with even more acridity and pungency. To these extreme right-wingers, being caring, merciful and compassionate is redolent of left-wing wimps and wussies.
Suella Braverman was the epitome of this heartlessness. It has come to my attention in recent years that if you are looking for examples of cruelty, you must often turn to women! Politics in the West is replete with cruel women. It seems that the longer that women have been in the workplace, the traditional domain of men, the tougher and crueller they have become. Forget about the fair sex! We are all men in a man’s world now, it seems!
Suella Braverman’s utterances recently on being homeless and on homelessness being a “lifestyle choice” were as cruel and insensitive as they were absurd and dead wrong. Then there was her dream of seeing unwanted asylum seekers on a plane, flying off to Rwanda. Ostensibly, such a scenario floated the heartless woman’s boat!
Clearly, our government policies appear to be becoming crueller, the further away we turn from Christianity. In a post-Christian world, anything, it seems, is possible. Anything goes.
We should all note well that the void left by Christianity’s demise will most definitely be filled; and so obviously by the ever-growing presence of Islam in the West, which our clueless, ignorant and cowardly politicians have allowed to happen. Furthermore, our politicians have busily prepared the way into the heart of the West for the these Muslims. And instead of insisting on full integration and assimilation, and their adoption of Western ways and standards as a prerequisite of entrance to the West, they have encouraged these immigrants to bring with them the ways of their own countries of origin. So, if no stop is put to this nonsense, we can look forward to the recent cruelty of Hamas replacing the gentleness of our hitherto Christian ways. A post-Christian Western world will be harsh and merciless – a world devoid of compassion.
The Islamic world provides us no example of a gentler way of life. In the Islamic world, as we must all surely know by now, it is not uncommon for hands to be amputated for theft, beheadings are common for more serious transgressions, whippings for those who indulge in alcohol and stonings to death for adulteresses. Their treatment of gays is unimaginably cruel.
We abandon our Judæo-Christian heritage at our own risk, and if we continue to abandon it, we will all have a rude awakening. Be you a devout or just a nominal Christian, you are better off in our Judæo-Christian world. Turn your backs on it at your peril!
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The news today that our Supreme Court has determined that this country’s government policy of sending unwanted asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful is as welcome as it is encouraging. These days, our increasingly populist, right-wing government, which appears to have no understanding of traditional, one-nation conservatism, and certainly no recollection of it, come up with some pretty heartless and hare-brained ideas and policies. Most of these people are Thatcher’s babies, people who have taken the worst of Thatcher’s uncaring policies and are busy peppering them with even more acridity and pungency. To these extreme right-wingers, being caring, merciful and compassionate is redolent of left-wing wimps and wussies.
Suella Braverman was the epitome of this heartlessness. It has come to my attention in recent years that if you are looking for examples of cruelty, you must often turn to women! Politics in the West is replete with cruel women. It seems that the longer that women have been in the workplace, the traditional domain of men, the tougher and crueller they have become. Forget about the fair sex! We are all men in a man’s world now, it seems!
Suella Braverman’s utterances recently on being homeless and on homelessness being a “lifestyle choice” were as cruel and insensitive as they were absurd and dead wrong. Then there was her dream of seeing unwanted asylum seekers on a plane, flying off to Rwanda. Ostensibly, such a scenario floated the heartless woman’s boat!
Clearly, our government policies appear to be becoming crueller, the further away we turn from Christianity. In a post-Christian world, anything, it seems, is possible. Anything goes.
We should all note well that the void left by Christianity’s demise will most definitely be filled; and so obviously by the ever-growing presence of Islam in the West, which our clueless, ignorant and cowardly politicians have allowed to happen. Furthermore, our politicians have busily prepared the way into the heart of the West for the these Muslims. And instead of insisting on full integration and assimilation, and their adoption of Western ways and standards as a prerequisite of entrance to the West, they have encouraged these immigrants to bring with them the ways of their own countries of origin. So, if no stop is put to this nonsense, we can look forward to the recent cruelty of Hamas replacing the gentleness of our hitherto Christian ways. A post-Christian Western world will be harsh and merciless – a world devoid of compassion.
The Islamic world provides us no example of a gentler way of life. In the Islamic world, as we must all surely know by now, it is not uncommon for hands to be amputated for theft, beheadings are common for more serious transgressions, whippings for those who indulge in alcohol and stonings to death for adulteresses. Their treatment of gays is unimaginably cruel.
We abandon our Judæo-Christian heritage at our own risk, and if we continue to abandon it, we will all have a rude awakening. Be you a devout or just a nominal Christian, you are better off in our Judæo-Christian world. Turn your backs on it at your peril!
© Mark Alexander
All Rights Reserved
Monday, November 13, 2023
Why I Am Now a Christian
UNHERD: Atheism can't equip us for civilisational war
In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay with precisely the opposite title.
The year before, I had publicly condemned the terrorist attacks of the 19 men who had hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the twin towers in New York. They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam. I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?
At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they and their leader Osama Bin Laden had articulated so clearly. So Islam had an alibi. » | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Monday, November 13, 2023
In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay with precisely the opposite title.
The year before, I had publicly condemned the terrorist attacks of the 19 men who had hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the twin towers in New York. They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam. I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?
At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they and their leader Osama Bin Laden had articulated so clearly. So Islam had an alibi. » | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Monday, November 13, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
"It All Goes Back to Isaac & Ishmael" - Israel at War - Jewish Historian Ken Spiro
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Monday, October 30, 2023
‘I Just Wonder, Are We Heading to Some Form of Religious War?’ | Nigel Farage's UK Protest Concerns
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Friday, October 13, 2023
Inside the Persecuted Church of Iran | Documentary Series Pt. 2
Part 1.
Hard to Reach: Why Christianity Is Booming in Iran (Even under the Islamic Regime) | Documentary Series Pt. 1
Sunday, October 08, 2023
Religious Roundtable | PBD Podcast | Ep. 306
Sunday, October 01, 2023
Joshua Maponga:"Christianity and Islam Are BULLIES of African Culture." | #shorts
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
How a New Christian Right Is Changing US Politics - BBC News
Nov 28, 2023 | A new battle of faith is being driven by some pastors and politicians in the United States. Their central message is that the country's conservative Christian way of life is under threat, and American society is moving in the wrong direction.
The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher explores the impact of this growing movement on US politics.
The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher explores the impact of this growing movement on US politics.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Muslim Mobs Torch Churches after Koran ‘Desecrated’
THE TELEGRAPH: Dozens of houses also set ablaze as thousands riot in Pakistan after brothers accused of violating blasphemy laws
Muslim mobs have torched churches in Pakistan after two locals were accused of desecrating the Koran, violating blasphemy laws.
The violence erupted after torn pages of the sacred text with insulting remarks allegedly scribbled on them were found near a Christian community in Jaranwala, eastern Pakistan.
Local authorities said five churches and dozens of houses were set ablaze as thousands of rioters, led by local clerics, rampaged through the city carrying iron rods and knives, forcing Christians living there to flee.
Footage of flames and smoke billowing from buildings and people tearing a crucifix from a church was shared widely on social media.
The rioters were demanding that the two accused men, brothers who have fled their homes, be handed over to them. » | Samaan Lateef in New Delhi | Thursday, August 17, 2023
Muslim mobs have torched churches in Pakistan after two locals were accused of desecrating the Koran, violating blasphemy laws.
The violence erupted after torn pages of the sacred text with insulting remarks allegedly scribbled on them were found near a Christian community in Jaranwala, eastern Pakistan.
Local authorities said five churches and dozens of houses were set ablaze as thousands of rioters, led by local clerics, rampaged through the city carrying iron rods and knives, forcing Christians living there to flee.
Footage of flames and smoke billowing from buildings and people tearing a crucifix from a church was shared widely on social media.
The rioters were demanding that the two accused men, brothers who have fled their homes, be handed over to them. » | Samaan Lateef in New Delhi | Thursday, August 17, 2023
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Saturday, July 15, 2023
The Abuse Scandal Leaving a Trail of Destruction across Christianity
THE TELEGRAPH: The evangelical world is in uproar after musical superstar Matt Redman claimed he was the ‘victim’ of preacher Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi
If you are not an evangelical Christian, then he is almost certainly the most influential music superstar that you’ve never heard of. Yet this week, the British artist Matt Redman became known for something other than his internationally-best-selling “praise music” when he took on another global titan of the conservative Christian world – and his former mentor – Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi.
Pilavachi is a captivating, magnetic preacher. For young Christians aspiring to a life in ministry, worship leading or prayer, the talented British evangelist, of Greek Cypriot descent, has been revered as a gifted man with “an amazing connection to the Holy Spirit’’, “a direct dial to God” and “the gifts to enable it all”.
Avowedly celibate – repeatedly telling crowds how he has never slept “with anyone, animal, vegetable or mineral and I’m okay” – he has travelled around the world giving sermons, wearing colourful tie-dye kaftans, speaking the word of God and converting thousands of people to the faith with his radical “Soul Survivor” summer youth festivals known by some as “the Christian Glastonbury”.
Yet beneath the veneer of his chaste Christian superstardom, preaching in front of a giant crucifix lit up on stage, it is claimed that a “conveyor belt” of young, attractive men – many of whom were vulnerable and had difficult childhoods – were encouraged to receive full-body oil massages in their underwear in their vicar’s bedroom.
Victims have also told of vigorous wrestling matches that could last as long as 20 minutes at a time – sometimes in church. » | Gabriella Swerling, Religious Affairs Editor | Saturday, July 15, 2023
If you are not an evangelical Christian, then he is almost certainly the most influential music superstar that you’ve never heard of. Yet this week, the British artist Matt Redman became known for something other than his internationally-best-selling “praise music” when he took on another global titan of the conservative Christian world – and his former mentor – Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi.
Pilavachi is a captivating, magnetic preacher. For young Christians aspiring to a life in ministry, worship leading or prayer, the talented British evangelist, of Greek Cypriot descent, has been revered as a gifted man with “an amazing connection to the Holy Spirit’’, “a direct dial to God” and “the gifts to enable it all”.
Avowedly celibate – repeatedly telling crowds how he has never slept “with anyone, animal, vegetable or mineral and I’m okay” – he has travelled around the world giving sermons, wearing colourful tie-dye kaftans, speaking the word of God and converting thousands of people to the faith with his radical “Soul Survivor” summer youth festivals known by some as “the Christian Glastonbury”.
Yet beneath the veneer of his chaste Christian superstardom, preaching in front of a giant crucifix lit up on stage, it is claimed that a “conveyor belt” of young, attractive men – many of whom were vulnerable and had difficult childhoods – were encouraged to receive full-body oil massages in their underwear in their vicar’s bedroom.
Victims have also told of vigorous wrestling matches that could last as long as 20 minutes at a time – sometimes in church. » | Gabriella Swerling, Religious Affairs Editor | Saturday, July 15, 2023
Wednesday, July 05, 2023
"Bad for Religion": Gay Baptist Minister with Interfaith Alliance on SCOTUS LGBTQ Rights Ruling
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