Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Chris Hedges Exposes How America’s FAKE Christian Right & Billionaires Are Destroying Us! | Reupload

Feb 11, 2025 | Marc Lamont Hill sits down with Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former New York Times Middle East bureau chief, to break down America’s looming future under a toxic mix of corporate greed, religious extremism, and fascist politics. Hedges calls out the “Christian Right” for its deep ties to the billionaire class, claiming they're using "magic Jesus" to distract the masses from real economic collapse. The conversation goes deep into how the system is rigged against the working class, how “boutique activism” misses the point, and why the fight for true justice can’t be won without confronting economic inequality head-on. The explosive talk covers the dangerous rise of Christian nationalism, the genocide in Gaza, and why the left is too weak to stop the chaos ahead. You won't hear this anywhere else.

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and social critic. With a long career covering war and global injustice, Hedges brings his deep insights into the collapse of the American empire, economic inequality, and the rise of authoritarianism. He's the author of several books, including America: The Farewell Tour and Wages of Rebellion, and a fierce critic of both political parties.


Friday, February 07, 2025

Trump Signs Order to Fight ‘Anti-Christian Bias’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The president convened a task force to “prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism.” Critics said he’d turned religious freedom on its head by singling out one faith.

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at eradicating “anti-Christian bias” in the federal government by having agencies review policies and practices that he says have tried to squelch religious activities and activism.

Mr. Trump, who announced the order at the National Prayer Breakfast, appointed his new attorney general, Pam Bondi, to lead a task force at the Justice Department to spearhead the effort. Mr. Trump said the task force would “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society” and “move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

“You’ve never had that before, but this is a very powerful document I’m signing,” he said. “You got it now — first time you’ve had it. If we don’t have religious liberty, then we don’t have a free country. We probably don’t even have a country.”

The executive order is meant to reverse what it calls an “egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses” under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. It cited the convictions of anti-abortion demonstrators for blocking access to abortion clinics. » | Erica L. Green | Reporting from Washington | Friday, February 7, 2025

Thursday, January 23, 2025

MAGA Congressman Wants to DEPORT Bishop Who CALLED OUT Trump

Jan 22, 2025


Gosh! That courageous Bishop did a wonderful job showing up Trump & Co in that cathedral that day. American Evangelical Christians seem to have no understanding of the teachings of Jesus; in fact, they appear to have no understanding of Christianity at all! – © Mark Alexander

Thursday, January 16, 2025

The History of Christianity and Homophobia | Sir Noel Malcolm: The History of Homosexuality (2/4)

Jan 16, 2025 | How has Judaism and Christianity understood and treated homosexuality throughout history? Throughout this fascinating lecture, learn how the answer is that it was radically different and varied across time and place. Discover the influence theology has had in the development of how various romantic acts were legally categorised.

Sir Noel Malcolm is a British historian and author, known for his work in early modern history and the relationship between Europe and the Islamic world. He's a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and has written extensively on Thomas Hobbes, among other subjects. Knighted in 2014, he's also a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature



Part 1 of this lecture is to be found here.

Sunday, January 05, 2025

A Move Toward Christianity Stirs in a Muslim Land

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as a key to their European identity.

Two men chatting in front of a church in the village of Llapushnik, Kosovo, where a baptism ceremony took place in November. | Armend Nimani for The New York Times

The Catholic priest stood at the altar in the hilltop church for the mass baptism, dunking dozens of heads in water and tracing a cross with his finger on each forehead.

Then he rejoiced at Christianity’s recovery of souls in a land where the vast majority of people are Muslim — as the men, women and children standing before him had been.

The ceremony was one of many in recent months in Kosovo, a formerly Serbian territory inhabited largely by ethnic Albanians that declared itself an independent state in 2008. In a census last spring, 93 percent of the population professed itself Muslim and only 1.75 percent Roman Catholic.

A small number of ethnic Albanian Christian activists, all converts from Islam, are urging their ethnic kin to look to the church as an expression of their identity. They call it the “return movement,” a push to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as an anchor of Kosovo’s place in Europe and a barrier to religious extremism spilling over from the Middle East. » | Andrew Higgins and Fatjona Mejdini | Reporting from Llapushnik, Podujevo and Pristina, Kosovo | Saturday, Jan 4, 2025

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The Churches Response to Islamisation in Europe | Panel Discussion

Sep 27, 2024


Islam is seductive to young men, especially because Islam is a muscular religion. It is muscular and masculine. Islam has no concept of “turning the other cheek”; rather, it preaches an “eye for an eye’. It is easy to see its attraction for young men.

Go to a church on a Sunday these days and you are likely to find not many young men, but many elderly ladies. – © Mark Alexander

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Angels and the Festival of Michaelmas

Sep 24, 2024 | Rupert explores the significance of Michaelmas, the Feast of Saint Michael and all angels, celebrated on September 29th. He discusses the role of angels in various religious traditions, and how modern beliefs about angels persist despite materialist skepticism. He touches on encounters with angels in dreams and altered states, questioning whether they are real or products of imagination. Drawing on figures like Carl Jung and Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rupert reflects on angels' place in the collective unconscious and their roles in Western thought.

About Rupert:

Dr Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University, as a Fellow of Clare College, he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells, and together with Philip Rubery discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport. In India, he was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. He is the author of more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and his research contributions have been widely recognized by the academic community, earning him a notable h-index for numerous citations. On ResearchGate his Research Interest Score puts him among the top 4% of scientists.



Nb: I am posting this out of great interest. I am not posting it because I necessarily believe in angels! I neither believe in them nor disbelieve. But when this very interesting video showed up on my YouTube homepage, it reminded me of family traditions in my childhood. My grandmother on my father’s side ALWAYS brought the family together for a special family meal on the feast of St Michael. My grandmother always served a Michaelmas goose. Happy memories. – © Mark Alexander

WIKIPEDIA: Michaelmas»

Monday, June 24, 2024

Holy Humanist: Sick of Sinning | The Power of Religious Indoctrination

Jun 23, 2024 | “Join me in conversation with Jennifer Graham as we unpack her fascinating and enduring life story, delving into the power that religious indoctrination once held sway over her.

Jennifer grew up in South Africa under the oppressive apartheid government and gave her life to the Lord early in life. As cognitive dissonance began to set in and the claims of Christianity fell apart, Jenn eventually de-converted. She let go of her limiting beliefs and discovered a sense of empowerment leaving it all behind.

Many thanks to Jennifer for sharing her story!" - Nuriyah



For those wishing to do so, Nuriyah Khan’s work can be supported on PayPal here.

Jennifer Graham’s book, An Immoral Proposal, is available on Amazon. – Mark

Monday, June 03, 2024

"Theological Bullsh*t!" Richard Dawkins Challenges Ayaan Hirsi Ali's New-found Christianity

Jun 1, 2024 | Face to face in New York City...

"You are no more a Christian than I am" wrote the world's most famous atheist Richard Dawkins when he learnt his old friend Ayaan Hirsi Ali had converted to Christianity.

Ayaan, an apostate twice over, from Muslim to prominent New Atheist has come to Christ. She describes her journey to a packed room at the inaugural Dissident Dialogues festival of ideas in Brooklyn, New York.

Dawkins grapples with her faith, challenges her beliefs in one of the most significant encounters of New Atheism and New Theism. Physics vs metaphysics, rational vs spiritual, Is vs Ought. Surely the most important questions of the age.

Moderated by Freddie Sayers of Unherd. Filmed on May 4th, 2024.


Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Donald Trump ‘Is a Good Christian,’ Claims His Spiritual Advisor | Pastor Mark Burns

Jan 23, 2024 | “He is a student of the word of God.” Despite Donald Trump’s legal battles and personal indiscretions, his spiritual advisor Pastor Mark Burns insists the former president is a good Christian.


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

Jan23, 2024 | Despite being an officially secular country, religion is everywhere in the United States. 70% of Americans are Christians and the majority of them voted for Trump. Evangelicals mobilized in their masses to get Donald Trump elected and they similarly geared up to do the same in the most recent election. Evangelicals have even created their own Bible-themed attractions, boldly rewriting the science books to educate their children. In Kentucky, an actual-size Noah’s ark has been built along with a museum that supports the theory that the universe was created in just six days. In this documentary, we dive into the religious world inside the United States.


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

Aug 27, 2020


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

Dec 4, 2023 | Pious, faith-driven, and humble. These are things that Donald Trump is not.

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!

© Mark Alexander
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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

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

"It All Goes Back to Isaac & Ishmael" - Israel at War - Jewish Historian Ken Spiro

Oct 26, 2023 | Historian and Rabbi Ken Spiro joins J-TV to share shed light on how the Torah's narratives around Isaac and Ishmael - the birth of the Jewish and Arab nations - sows the seeds for the times we are in today.


Ken Spiro’s website here »

Ken Spiro’s podcast here »

Monday, October 30, 2023

‘I Just Wonder, Are We Heading to Some Form of Religious War?’ | Nigel Farage's UK Protest Concerns

Oct 30, 2023 | 'I never thought I'd see these scenes in my country'. Nigel reacts to footage of protests from this weekend and the demonstration at the Cenotaph.

Friday, October 13, 2023

Inside the Persecuted Church of Iran | Documentary Series Pt. 2

May 2, 2023 | What is it like being a Christian in Iran? In this episode of Neighborhoods and Nations, Steven Morales speaks to Iranian Christians about Iran’s secret church. Nima Alizadeh, an Iranian Christian, tells us about the persecution that Christians face in Tehran.


Part 1.