David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective
Episodes
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."
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
- Zimbabwe –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002220 - from 2:38 - David Coulthard
3) America – Catholic Kids and Group Hate.. https://quillette.com/2019/01/20/truth-and-disfavored-identities/?fbclid=IwAR2h6ED7ViM9uy6aMmTO-oshMWf7dvcIpNNcla1jN38a7MYbG9Pq1H6ooeM
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-covington-catholic-bonfire-at-the-stake/
4) Lady Gaga and Mike Pence - https://www.christianpost.com/news/lady-gaga-calls-herself-christian-slams-mike-pence-as-worst-christian.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=2f6d3d73c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_22_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-2f6d3d73c9-2509241
Judas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wagn8Wrmzuc
5) Tony and the Flypast. - https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1087627217541189632?s=12
6) Prayer in parliament – Sunday – John Lennox
http://archbishopcranmer.com/parliamentary-prayers-impose-exclude/
7) Riots in Greece – https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1075198/greece-riots-macedonia-riots-protests-police-tear-gas-athens
8) Socialist Utopia in Australia - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/socialist-utopia-2050-what-could-life-in-australia-be-like-after-the-failure-of-capitalism?CMP=share_btn_link
Bowie on the Internet – in 1999 - https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1083298716700815360
“The potential of what the internet to society both good and bad is unimaginable….its an alien lifeform
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
- EU and Parliament
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062plkt
2) Toxic Masculinity….
https://gillette.com/en-us/the-best-men-can-be
3) Abortion - Cuomo
4) Bishop Curry and Anglicanism
5) John Finnis
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/is-john-finnis-the-bravest-don-in-oxford
6) LGBT depression –
7) Andy Murray
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/46867066
Quote of the week – From an Uncivil Brexit.
"The system always wins – rebooting the system? The vision wasn’t flawed…its people that are flawed – the politicians – they did it crap they ruined it…there is a systems failure in this country and across the West…we are languishing..we are drifting without a vision or a purpose..what do you do when there is a systems failure? You reset…that’s all I did. What did they do? What did all of you do? You rebooted the same operating system. The same tired old politics of short termism and self serving small thinking bullshit.
I’m as bad as the rest of them but that’s what the system does, the virus…it infects, but I was hoping, just praying that someone, anyone with the minimalist amount of (swearing) imagination or vision or aspiration could see that there was the opportunity for something to actually happen for someone to step in and do something to make a change…."
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019
- 1) China – Threats to Taiwan….https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46733174
- 2) The Yellow Vests - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46788751
3) BBC how Trans people choose their names -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46567954
Using He and She could be offensive - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/nhs-tells-staff-using-he-and-she-could-be-offensive/
Drag Queens in libraries - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-46753018
http://travisalabanza.co.uk/burgerz-2/
5) Attacking politicians - Anna Soubry –https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/08/pressure-grows-on-police-to-act-over-nazi-slurs-against-anna-soubry
Nigel Farage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YaM1TUfzk
6) Billy Connolly - https://www.thenational.scot/news/17332798.billy-connolly-admits-he-is-near-the-end-but-isnt-scared-of-dying/
7) The Iolaire - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-46633716
Quote of the Week - The only truly acceptable contemporary Christianity for Western political culture now seems to be a Christianity which doesn’t mention God and which subscribes to conventional elite wisdom on policy issues (page 226).
Friday Jan 04, 2019
Friday Jan 04, 2019
This is a follow up to Quantum 22 which looked at what happened last year - now we look ahead.
1) ) We will continue to live in a confused culture -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaS6NGvH6U
There will be growing gender confusion and a pushback against the Transgender ideology –
https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/12/26/the-year-of-trans-tyranny/
2) Immigration –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06vy1pq (from the beginning?)
3) Turmoil in the EU –https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/protesters-are-violent-racist-hate-filled-liars-says-macron-xrf5wsr0w
4) In politics Brexit will not happen in any meaningful form –
5) The SNP will pay the price for focusing on Brexit.
6) The Battle for Marriage and Family will continue -
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/how-taiwans-silent-majority-blocked-same-sex-marriage-momentum
7) Education - http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/57102/political-leaders-issue-christmas-messages-to-catholic-community-and-all-scotlands-christians/
8) China will face a turbulent year – BBC Sunday – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001sxk
9) The battle for democracy
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/stan-grant-2019-the-end-of-history/10675572
10) Atheism will decline and a spiritual hole will be left - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/atheism-is-down-as-uk-gets-spiritual-z00nxczn7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUv7sYBXEFw&t=58s
Friday Dec 28, 2018
Friday Dec 28, 2018
Quantum 22 – Review of 2018
10) A BitterSweet Day - https://theweeflea.com/2018/12/10/a-bittersweet-day-the-end-of-an-era/
9) The End of Scottish Indy - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/16/the-end-of-scottish-independence/
8) Ireland Regresses - https://theweeflea.com/2018/05/27/ireland-regresses-sunday-bloody-sunday/
7) The Dark Side of Transgender Ideology - https://theweeflea.com/2018/11/12/the-dark-side-of-transgenderism/
6) 12 Rules for Life - https://theweeflea.com/2018/01/25/12-rules-for-life-a-christian-perspective/
5) A Revolutionary Question for the Church - https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/10/a-revolutionary-question-for-the-evangelical-church/
4) Bishop Curry - https://theweeflea.com/2018/05/21/bishop-michael-currys-sermon-a-distorted-gospel-divides-the-church/
3) Undivided - https://theweeflea.com/2018/06/25/undivided-an-open-letter-to-vicky-beeching/
2) The Hate Police - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/02/the-hate-police-are-now-here/
1) America’s Disgrace - https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/28/americas-disgrace/
Quote of the Year: “Christians are always more short-sighted than they realize. They are often unable to tell, for instance, where their Christian principles leave off and their cultural perspectives begin. What many of them fail to ask themselves is, ‘where are we coming from and what is our own context?”
Friday Dec 21, 2018
Friday Dec 21, 2018
1) Christmas at Thistle shopping mall in Stirling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqBd3Wi7Mk&feature=youtu.be
2) Stornoway Sabbath Swimming - Catriona Murray. Friday 7:45. GMS - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001kfh
https://posttenebraslux.co.uk/2018/12/18/journalism-satan-and-sunday-opening/
3) Referendums - Ireland abortion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mmm
4)Was Jesus funny? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001md1
5) Saudi Arabia and Yemen - https://unherd.com/2018/12/how-britain-profits-from-yemens-pain/
6) Mary’s Boychild - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mcb