David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective
Episodes
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
1) Ukraine - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/in-ukraines-presidential-elections-life-is-imitating-netflix/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47763176
2) Theybies and Childism -
3) Moral Maze – Puritanism –- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003jj5
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17538407.bbc-question-time-defends-lgbt-morality-debate/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0003mp9/question-time-2019-28032019
Coeercice and Controlling behaviour - https://twitter.com/scotgov/status/1112655845525995520?s=12
5) New Zealand
7) Restriction on science –
- https://quillette.com/2019/04/01/activists-must-stop-harassing-scientists/
Pseudo Science - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/lying-with-science-a-guide-to-myth-debunking/
8) Melvin Bragg – Unbelievable – https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Why-William-Tyndale-s-Bible-changed-the-world-Melvyn-Bragg-and-Ben-Virgo?fbclid=IwAR1gG6Qfm2TMYv5kcR2IEIwV3nsY396Ettlqtur1P6O41RhIfVW9x4CeW7o
9) Difference between Americans and British – the Cure - https://twitter.com/stormhuntley/status/1112344763049615361?s=12
“Road unsafe when this sign is under water” (US sign).
Robin Aitken – The Noble Liar – “ our ruling elite in Britain– the politicians, lawyers, academics and media people – view the current state of affairs as a positive thing;”we have banished superstition”, they say, rejoicing at the thought; but there remains a sceptical minority who look at the society brought into being by this type of thinking and see little to admire. The liberal hegemony has created an unhappy society which doesn’t really know what it believes in. And whether you are a supporter of the current orthodoxy or not, here is one thing you can rely on: it is not permanent. The qualities that make Christianity a force to be reckoned with– the truth that wins human hearts and compels belief – will not change, and will go on winning converts to its banner. In the coming years, who is to say whether the old beliefs will not triumph again over the arid fictions of our current noble lie?”
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 29, 2019
New Zealand Mosque – https://twitter.com/johnpaulpagano/status/1110579872932552706?s=12
What is Islamaphobia - https://www.christianconcern.com/our-issues/islam/what-is-islamophobia
Jordan Peterson
China and the Church
Eu and the Internet - https://capx.co/the-eus-censorious-copyright-directive-will-create-two-internets/
China and AI technology - https://www.facebook.com/188625661189259/posts/2377454685639668/
The Mueller inquiry and Justin Smollet - https://www.christianpost.com/news/russia-investigation-complete-mueller-attends-same-church-trump-attended-last-week.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=99cad22efc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_25_04_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-99cad22efc-2509241
Treatment of the elderly in the Netherlands - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dutch-legislator-wants-doctors-to-be-able-to-deny-surgeries-to-patients-older-than-70?utm_content=buffere5520&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM&fbclid=IwAR2XobCBPSLjBHBaVmHo_cd50jXYBf5gbblUt2anURKsWZmAqIFgvp2mM6w
BMA and Assisted dying - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47641766
Glasgow Uni – Life https://adfinternational.org/news/freedom-of-speech-upheld-at-glasgow-university-following-legal-challenge/
Rape Crisis centre in Canada defunded - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/rape-crisis-centres-funding-axed-over-refusal-to-accommodate-men/?fbclid=IwAR3fYWlHhpCfzRQdu_cn7HgIHI9gNlDWMylZmrczidt6v_zCxGx5xN4lcmc
Chick Fil –A - https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/chick-fil-a-banned-san-antonio-airport-legacy-lgbtq-behavior-report
Scott Walker - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6846697/Scott-Walker-star-Walker-Brothers-dies-aged-76.html?ico=pushly-notifcation-small
Ricky Gervais -
https://theweeflea.com/2017/02/03/ricky-gervais-v-stephen-colbert-the-real-answers-an-open-letter/
“Heaven is a fairy story told for people afraid of the dark”
Stephen Hawking
“Atheism is a fairy story for those afraid of the light” John Lennox
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Friday Mar 22, 2019
- Cyclone in Mozambique – Zimbabwe and Malawi –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47637166
- New Zealand Mosque Shootings – Dutch and African killings.
https://theweeflea.com/2019/03/18/christchurch-commentaries/
Nicola Sturgeon - https://twitter.com/radioclydenews/status/1106580389877989376?s=12
Brendan O’Neil - https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1107982933338583040?s=12
- Brexit
- Iranian Christian Refused Asylum
- British Journalist Questioned for Misgendering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeJlv62nig
- British MP condemns parents who don’t want LGBT indoctrination
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-appoints-first-national-adviser-for-lgbt-health
Also the name Donald....and Lucifer..
Regensburg and Trip Advisor.
Kentucky and Abortion.
7) Out of the Ashes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_YSZyhRv5s
“If you want me to stick my neck out, I think I would say that if the Church were officially to approve homosexual partnerships as a legitimate alternative to hetrosexual marriage, this so far diverges from biblical sexual ethics that I would find it exceedingly difficult to stay. I might want to stay on and fight a few more years, but if they persisted I would have to leave” (John Stott, Balanced Christianity p.61)
Friday Mar 15, 2019
Friday Mar 15, 2019
The EU Debacle - and Cromwell
2) Michael Jackson - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/michael-jackson-sexual-abuse-media-coverage_n_5c7af551e4b0e1f776521c8e?guccounter=1
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/leaving-neverland-michael-jackson-and-me/on-demand/63905-001
David Steel and Cyril Smith . http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/lord-steele-admits-that-former-rochdale-mp-cyril-smith-confessed-to-him-that-child-abuse-allegations-were-true/
3) Transmania - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791187/Now-girl-gymnasts-share-changing-rooms-boys-identify-female.html
4) Sex Education
5) The Herald –
Chinese Church blown up - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-christianity-religion-crackdown-megachurch-chinaaid-golden-lampstand-church-linfen-communist-a8156031.html
7) Dutch Church – SSM - https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/dutch-reformed-churchs-decision-not-to-recognise-same-sex-unions-overturned-19728977?fbclid=IwAR3U37673SCK8r_bCXzAjNQZtdqwaIjI1uE4Ph_kWQWwaGO1IDQIBteqeOg
8) Brendan O’Neill – Knife Crime -
10) Australian use of technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlBByFWTf4
If we abandon God, and the ethical imperatives that proceed from that, we are in danger of ending up in an amoral morass, where the sort of technocratic debates about whether certain human beings should be regarded as sharing a common humanity, like the Soviet purges of "enemies of the people" or the Nazi’s belief in the expendability of certain races, most particularly Jews, become possible. You then land in an amoral jungle, animated only by some mud- begotten social Darwinianism. This is because there was no longer a guiding moral authority. These regimes could "reason" their way to any conclusion." (Kevin Rudd – page 217). God is Good for You.
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Knife Crime – https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/1036030733187727/
2) Birmingham Parents –
- https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/06/those-birmingham-parents-are-right/
- https://albertmohler.com/2019/03/04/end-parental-rights-chilling-case-canada/
3)Trudeau downfall – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/02/28/downfall-justin-trudeau/
4) Q and A Australia – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmNSlF7lcaw
5) Transgender athletes – Sharon Davies - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/47438175?ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbc_match_of_the_day&fbclid=IwAR0DX_8Ib0RM8YKH5PmSKPgCP-Ocs38ClsdF74MxYLWu1v8EC8VDxZ6HYlA
https://order-order.com/2019/02/28/twitter-bars-suzanne-evans-saying-trans-woman-wasnt-ladylike/
6) China and KFC - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/05/asia/kfc-china-lei-feng-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2019-03-06T09%3A44%3A03&utm_term=link
7) Birthstrike - https://twitter.com/victorialive/status/1102626925158252544?s=12
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46118103
8) Andre Previn - https://twitter.com/andrewlane1962/status/1101182707739041793?s=12
Quote of the Week - “At the beginning of time, according to the great Western tradition, the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. It is axiomatic, within that tradition, that man and woman alike are made in the image of that God. We also transform chaos into Being, through speech. We transform the manifold possibilities of the future into the actualities of past and present. To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being. Truth builds edifices that can stand a thousand years. Truth feeds and clothes the poor, and makes nations wealthy and safe. Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word, so that he can become a partner, rather than an enemy. Truth makes the past truly past, and makes the best of the future’s possibilities. Truth is the ultimate, inexhaustible natural resource. It’s the light in the darkness. See the truth. Tell the truth>’ Jordan Peterson
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
1) United Methodists Defend Biblical Teaching
https://juicyecumenism.com/2019/02/23/african-united-methodists-wont-trade-bible-for-dollars/
2) India and Pakistan
3) Brexit betrayal –
4) Shamima Begum –
5) Hate Speech -
https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1100093417420476416?s=12
6) George Pell -
7) Gender issues…
http://archbishopcranmer.com/faith-sexuality-conversion-therapy-research/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/23/child-transgender-service-governor-quits-chaos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45329067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRc_jqXlSOU
9) Culture -
http://theconservative.online/article/scottish_musical_fascists
“On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions ... Why do people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? … Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us to where we can never return.”
—Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), pp. 40-41.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqeSJlgaNk
Peter Took – The Monkees.
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
1) Children, Climate Change and Democracy –
2) De-Colonisation of the curriculum
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/universities-should-resist-calls-to-decolonise-the-curriculum/
3) Hungary - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002kzj
4) Bishops and Popes
https://youtu.be/NMqlAdpucNU?t=1476
5) End of Parents
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/will-first-baby-britain-not-have-mother/
6) End of Men and Women
7) End of Babies
8) Texas – Fracking - http://time.com/5492648/permian-oil-boom-west-texas/
9) Humanist Celebrants - https://www.humanism.scot/what-we-do/news/regional-celebrant-recruitment-open/?fbclid=IwAR3Of31OH41RcsRfyRIP0YxZmPHpdxUOhuOF154eraqy3vOK2twLpT65SJk
10- The Kiss - https://www.scotsman.com/news/george-mendonsa-sailor-in-iconic-times-square-kiss-dies-aged-95-1-4875070
quote of the week - It seems that causing hundreds of casualties inadvertently was a less heinous crime than rocking the boat. (Page 401) The Somme – Into the Breach Hugh Sebag Montiefiore
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
- The Naked Brexit
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/what-is-the-naked-brexit-academic-trying-to-achieve/
- Selling Greece – Perhaps use a little Greek music to intro? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6lVjHPxVM
- Gordon Banks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLam4RAbg8
- Euthanasia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002cfb From 8:40
- The Flag of Domination- https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17428661.lgbt-history-month-glasgow-councils-decision-not-to-fly-pride-flag-is-slammed/?ref=ebln
https://www.upsu.net/articles/news/2019-02-06-guest-speaker-event-postponed
- Polygamy in Australia
- Transgenderism everywhere.
8) Churches Threatened
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46891432 _
- NUJ – and religious discrimination –
Michael Green –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW4MNMVTBXA
Quote of the Week: "In New York a therapist can tell a man who suffers from gender dysphoria that he is Napoleon, but not that he is a man".
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Friday Feb 08, 2019
Friday Feb 08, 2019
1) Liam Neeson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOPeiNU01I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb8KEpkCdRo
2) Donald Trump – State of the Nation….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5sZNXK2YZo
3) Brexiteers should go to Hell - Tusk plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Dx4Rnl5Og
4) Whats’ an immigrant worth? – Jess Phillips….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=ojjaUtremG0
5) Australian Drought – and Floods –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=0gtv4G3p-Rw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-47112044
6) Kazakhstan -
7) Disney Pride –
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1092563199931633664
8) C of E – Trans Baptisms
https://www.christian.org.uk/news/c-of-e-faces-opposition-over-trans-baptism-services/?e010219
9) Ken Larter – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwEn3qQBciE&fbclid=IwAR0MjqrwAfmfu3kKONtvNPlDFJIqrZkEY7Av_b0dC8WWhM5ISJG2d29d4Ec
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Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
- Consent - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000248j from 36 minutes….
- Alex Salmond
- Drugs deaths in Scotland
- The Tea Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8
- The Hate crime thought police are still here- https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/thought-police-row-after-cops-13919529
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/is-it-now-a-crime-to-like-a-poem-about-transgenderism/
Trolling Christian Schools -
- Mary – Queen of Scots -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnqjSgMU36U
Quote from Theodore Dalrymple – Our Culture What’s Left of It
"In the orgy of sentimentality into which much of the country sank after Diana's death, and which reminds me of the hot bath into which I gratefully sink after a hard day at the hospital, one thing has become evident: that the British under the influence of the media of mass communication, which demand that everyone wear his emotion or pseudo-emotion on his sleeve, have lost their only admirable qualities - stoicism, self-deprecation, and a sense of irony - and have gained only those worthy of contempt. They have exchanged depth for shallowness, and have thought they got the better of the bargain. They are like people who think that the answer to constipation is diarrhea."