Michael Coren is now friends with Ibtissam Bellydance.
I suppose he knows what he is doing.
Strange facebook alliances
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And now your daily laugh: Iran wants to monitor UK human rights violations
From here:
Iranian official urges Britain to allow delegation into country to investigate police human rights violations.
As riots have spread across the UK leading to hundreds of arrests and the death of one 26-year-old man, Iran has called on British police to avoid using violence against rioters and demonstrators, and to show “restraint” when dealing with protesters, Iranian Fars News Agency reported.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast reportedly asked the UK government to open dialogue with “protesters,” and has called on human rights groups to investigate the killing of Mark Duggan, 29, which sparked the violent riots that has seen substantial damage and theft.
If something is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well, so Iran’s delegation is privately offering to share its longstanding experience in torture, rape, mutilation, murder and kangaroo courts with Britain, which never has had a particularly good grip on how to violate human rights properly.
Barbarians within the gates
Malcolm Muggeridge spent much of his time predicting the downfall of the West in gems like this:
So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, laboured with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over–a weary, battered old brontosaurus–and became extinct.
Although his prognostications of doom were premature, he was essentially right.
The evolution of the e-card
I’ve always thought e-cards were a bit strange. Now they have become quite a bit stranger: you can send a “you may have caught an STD from me” e-card to your friend, bishop, whatever.
For the immoderate sower of wild STD oats, you can send a card to six people at once, along with a personal message – something touching like “Thank you for being part of my life and if you’ve seen any unusual lumps or sores, lately, I might know why.”
From here:
The e-cards, which can be sent anonymously, are pithy and to the point.
“Sometimes there are strings attached,” reads one. “I got diagnosed with STDs since we were together. Get checked out soon.”
Another says: “It’s not what you brought to the party, it’s what you left with. I left with an STI. You might have, too. Get checked out soon.”
E-cards can be sent to up to six partners at a time, and users have the option of including a personal message.
Anglicans deal with heretical bishops by waiting for them to die
That seems to be Rev. Gary Nicolosi’s approach in this article. While waiting for wayward bishops to die might appear to be gentler than summarily defrocking them – assuming the process isn’t artificially hastened – it doesn’t work particularly well in a church like the Anglican Church of Canada which is producing new heretical bishops at a greater rate than it is burying them.
Bishop Paul Moore of New York told a story several years ago about an incident that occurred in his junior year at General Theological Seminary. Some of the students were upset by a headline in The New York Times stating that the bishop of Birmingham (England) did not believe in the resurrection of Jesus. The students rushed to their theology professor, Dr. Marshall Boyer Stewart. “Dr. Stewart, Dr. Stewart,” said the students, “what are we going to do? The bishop of Birmingham, a real English bishop, does not believe in the resurrection!” Dr. Stewart put his face in his hands, sighed and said, “Well, the bishop of Birmingham will die someday, and the next bishop of Birmingham probably will believe in the resurrection.” That, Bishop Moore said, is how Anglicans deal with heresy!
Nicolisi’s article deliberately muddles the necessity for confronting heresy by quoting Matthew 13:24-30, the parable of the weeds: in his view, heresy is a weed that, if uprooted, might also uproot the wheat. This, of course is a typically devious liberal misapplication of a parable. While we are not to uproot possible unbelievers from the church, allowing teachers – bishops – to spout anti-Christian nonsense is an entirely different issue.
2 Peter 2:1-3 puts pay to the idea of tolerance for false teachers; unsurprisingly, Nicolosi doesn’t quote from it.
An extraordinary testimony
At church today from this chap – Ray Smith.
Linda Gibbons, Canada’s prisoner of conscience
For doing what you see in this video, disobeying a 1994 “temporary” injunction by continuing to protest the killing of the unborn, Linda Gibbons has spent 8 years in jail.
Here is a video of the latest arrest for her “crime”:
Canada’s lack of legal limits on abortion is a disgusting example of apathetic tolerance for evil. Persecuting a 69 year old who has the temerity to mildly protest the unfettered killing of the unborn is shockingly twisted. It shames Canada, Canadian law and Canadian citizens who, through their taxes, are paying for a travesty of justice that would find itself more at home in the KGB than a civilised society.
More here.
Back to Church Sunday, red light style
Further to the article below, an Amsterdam church has a new way to get people into the church:
Churches in Amsterdam were hoping to attract such people with a recent open evening.
At the Old Church “in the hottest part of the red light district”, the attractions included “speed-dating”.
As skimpily dressed girls began to appear in red-lit windows in the streets outside, visitors to the church moved from table to table to discuss love with a succession of strangers.
Clergyman in Netherland’s largest Protestant denomination has decided Jesus didn't exist
So obviously he wasn’t resurrected. While we’re at it, God isn’t a supernatural being, there is no life after death and the Bible describes myths.
Fittingly, his church is named the Exodus Church: that’s what his congregation should do as soon as possible.
He is not alone. According to a study by the Free University of Amsterdam, one-in-six clergy in the Protestantse Kerk in Nederland and six other smaller denominations are either agnostic or atheist.
Here he is.
More here.
Where have all the atheists gone?
Received via email:
The President of the British Humanist Association has pulled out of debating renowned Christian apologist William Lane Craig. Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist and prominent critic of religion, initially readily agreed to a debate on the Existence of God with Craig in April but withdrew her involvement last week saying “I hadn’t realised the nature of Mr Lane Craig’s debating style, and having now looked at his previous performances, this is not my kind of forum”.
Dawkins and Grayling (who have also refused to debate with Craig on his forthcoming UK Tour) are both Vice-Presidents of the British Humanist Association which describes one of its core values as “engaging in debate rationally, intelligently and with attention to evidence”.
William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, California. He has debated leading atheists the world over including Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, who described him as “the one Christian apologist who has put the fear of God into my fellow atheists.”
More information can be found at the Reasonable Faith Tour 2011.
The press release goes on to note this comment from Richard Dawkins:
Richard Dawkins, who has been publicly accused of cowardice for refusing to debate the arguments he presents in The God Delusion, recently described Craig as a “deeply unimpressive…ponderous buffoon”, who uses logic for “bamboozling his faith-head audience.” Yet he still has not responded to the actual content of the arguments presented by Craig.
Dawkins, the self proclaimed champion of reason, doesn’t want to expose himself to logic for fear of being bamboozled. What does that remind me of? Oh, I know:
