David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective - this podcast was known as Quantum of the Wee Flea. Now it has been turned into a radio programme with Rhema FM.
Episodes
Saturday Mar 11, 2017
Saturday Mar 11, 2017
David Robertson brings a Christian perspective to some of the recent messages that are being conveyed through the media.
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Gigamansions
CNBC - Take a peek inside the most expensive home for sale in the US
The Telegraph - America's priciest mega-mansion on sale for $250 million, and you get the helicopter from Airwolf
The Spectator - What explains the idiocy of the liberal elite its their education.
Jenni Murray, the BBC and Feminism v Transgenderism
Sunday Times (paywall) - Jenni Murray: Be trans, be proud — but don’t call yourself a “real woman”
BBC - Radio 4's Jenni Murray criticised over trans women article
Sensitivity Readers
Slate - Is My Novel Offensive?
Christians being driven from public life
The Spectator - People of faith are being driven from public life.
Facebook reports the BBC to the UK Police for sharing sexualised images of children on Facebook with Facebook!
(Yes you read that correctly.)
BBC - Facebook failed to remove sexualised images of children
Russell Brand Talks Sex, Softcore & Hardcore Porn
Life Site News - Russell Brand just destroyed porn in one of the most jaw-droppingly awesome rants ever
Ben Carson
The Daily Wire - Outraged Celebrities Apologize After Finding Out Obama Said Almost Exactly What Ben Carson Did About Slaves--Oh Wait
Holland - 4% of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2015 were Euthanasia.
Dutch Health and Justice ministers are proposing legislation for assisted suicide for those who feel their ‘life is complete should be allowed to finish that life in a manner dignified for them.'
Saturday Mar 04, 2017
Saturday Mar 04, 2017
Prior to the 2017 Oscars, all the directors nominated in the foreign language film category issued a joint statement on the Trump travel ban. David Robertson is a big fan of foreign films, but he's not such a great fan of the kind of sloppy thinking they used in their statement so can't help explaining more in episode 100 of Quantum.
The Oscars.
The Guardian - Foreign language Oscar nominees decry 'climate of fanaticism in US'
"Human rights are not something you have to apply for. They simply exist – for everybody. For this reason, we dedicate this award to all the people, artists, journalists and activists who are working to foster unity and understanding, and who uphold freedom of expression and human dignity – values whose protection is now more important than ever. By dedicating the Oscar to them, we wish to express to them our deep respect and solidarity."
Solas SHORT/ANSWERS - What are human rights based on?
A Gay Disney Film?
HuffPost Entertainment - ‘Beauty And The Beast’ To Feature First ‘Exclusively Gay Moment In A Disney Movie’
Majority Of Scots MSPs Support The TIE Campaign.
CommonSpace - “Historic” milestone: Scottish Parliament becomes first in Europe to back LGBT+ education
The Rising Tide of Paedophilia.
The Heidleblog - R Scott Clark - The Normalization Of Pedophilia Approaches
Peter Tatchell's 1997 letter to the Guardian - Peter Tatchell and Dares to Speak
BBC News - Do not jail all paedophiles, says police chief
The Telegraph - Streets should not be named after local heroes in case they are later found to be paedophiles, councils told
Apocalypse Preppers
The Independent - Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
The New Yorker - Doomsday prep for the super-rich
Tracy Ullman - A Christian's Job Interview
BBC One - A Christian's job interview - Tracey Ullman's Show: Series 2 Episode 4 Preview
Gerard Kaufman and Hans Rosling
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
David Robertson rises from his sick bed after a couple weeks to cast an eye over some of the recent media stories which impact on the Christian faith.
- Facebook 'muzzling' Christians?
- Trump, Sweden and Fake News.
- Post Truth - Short Answers.
- Milo Yiannopoulos and the growing sexual confusion in our culture.
- Sam Allberry, David Bennett and the Anglican Synod.
- Straight Civil Partnerships.
- Katie Couric's documentary, Gender Revolution.
- Nigeria's Northern Christians under attack.
- Jim Elliot in the Amazon.
- UKIP Christian Soldiers.
- Abu-Zakariya al-Britani / Ronald Fiddler.
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Facebook 'Muzzling' Christians?
Christian Today - Christian Vlogger Accuses Facebook Of 'Muzzling' Her For Saying Bible Condemns Homosexuality
Trump, Sweden and Fake News
The Washington Post - Riots erupt in Sweden’s capital just days after Trump comments
The Spectator - This fake story made me feel sympathy for Donald Trump
The Hill - Anti-Trump protests swell outside Parliament during debate on official visit
CNN - Insults fly as UK Parliament debates Donald Trump's visit
Post Truth
Solas SHORT/ANSWERS - How do we know what truth is?
Milo and the growing sexual confusion in our culture
Christian Post - Milo Yiannopoulos Says Homophobia Did Not Play Role in CPAC Disinvite, Resigns From Breitbart News
Milo Yiannopoulos - Full Press Conference (2/21/17)
Pink News - More than half of young people don’t identify as straight
Sam Allberry, David Bennett and the Anglican Synod
The Gospel Coalition - A Two-Minute Clip on Homosexuality Every Christian Should Watch
Christian Today - What About The Rights Of The Gay Christians Who Choose Celibacy?
Straight Civil Partnerships
BBC - Heterosexual couple lose civil partnership challenge
BBC Radio Scotland - The Kaye Adams Programme - 22/02/17
Segment involving David Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZhRsJ6bDU
Katie Couric's "Gender Revolution."
Daily Mail - Katie Couric chats to Ellen Degeneres
Nigeria's Northern Christians under attack
The Spectator - Who will protect Nigeria’s northern Christians?
Jim Elliot in the Amazon.
BBC - Killed for Christ in the Amazon
UKIP Christian Soldiers?
Political Scrapbook - UKIP Campaigners say Christians are 'committing treason against God' if they don't support Brexit
Saturday Feb 04, 2017
Saturday Feb 04, 2017
David Robertson picks his way through the links and threads that tie all these topics together...
- The New Fascism.
- The New Judge?
- Same Sex Marriage in the Churches of Norway and England.
- Transgender Reversion.
- UK Parliament votes to begin Article 50 Brexit negotiations.
- Tam Dayell.
- The Doomsday Clock.
- Euthenasia murder.
- Anti-Theist murder.
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The New Fascism.
The Guardian - When they go low, going high is not enough – video
CNN - Berkeley: '150 masked agitators' ahead of Milo Yiannopoulos talk
The new Judge? Gorsuch, abortion and the danger of confirmation bias in world views
BBC World News - Neil Gorsuch: The man who could shape American law for decades
BBC News - Trump picks Neil Gorsuch as nominee for Supreme Court
Desiring God- http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/wise-women-build
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell interviewed on Fox News about SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch and abortion.
Same Sex Marriage in the Churches of Norway and England
Transgender Reversion
Tam Dayell - His basic principles
The Doomsday Clock
Christian Today - As Doomsday Draws Near And The Devil Seeks To Swallow Us Up, The Only Answer Is In Jesus
Trump's Ban
TheWeeFlea.com - Donald Trump, the American Immigration Crisis and the Hummus Revolution
Euthenasia murder
Anti-Theist Murders Christian
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
David Robertson offers a Christian perspective on some of the messages that have been doing the rounds in the media recently:
* Northern Ireland politics.
* Trump’s Inauguration and the reaction to it.
* The Women’s March and the March for Life.
* The Queen, the Establishment and Faith.
* Sherlock and books in UK homes.
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Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness
Belfast Telegraph – Ian Paisley: My dad prayed regularly with Martin McGuinness… and the first time we met he laughed when I made a quip about balaclavas
BBC Northern Ireland – ‘Thank you’ – Ian Paisley’s words to Martin McGuinness
Trump’s Inauguration Speech and the reaction that followed
BBC’s Andrew Neal interviewing Ted Malloch.
Independent Journal Review – SNL Writer’s Tweet About Barron Trump is Beyond Unfunny–It’s Being Called ‘Vile’ and ‘Disgusting’
Bustle – “Funny” Tweets About Barron Trump At The Inauguration Are Not Appropriate
The Nation – Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched—You Can Thank the Black Bloc
Women’s March and the March for Life
Sheologians Podcast: Summer White interviews Feminists at Women’s March in Phoenix
LifeSite News – Trump ends funding of abortion oversees: Press Sec. Sean Spicer
BBC News – Netherlands government to counter Trump abortion funding ban
The Queen, the Establishment and Faith.
Premier Christianity – Queen’s chaplain quits to condemn Qur’an reading at church
Sherlock and books
The Scotsman – 1 in 10 homes don’t own books while smart device ownership soars
Sunday Jan 22, 2017
Sunday Jan 22, 2017
President Trump, Meryl Streep, the BBC Documentary," Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?" and Nicola Sturgeon's commitment to the TIE Campaign are some of the topics David Robertson covers this week before challenging Scottish politicians from all parties to stand up and defend parents and children, in the face of activist pressure and online abuse.
For more info on Solas, please visit www.solas-cpc.org
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President Trump
TheWeeFlea.com: Is Donald Trump the Christian President?
Washington Times: Calif. church to stop praying for president by name, says ‘Trump’ is ‘literally a trauma trigger’
BBC: Full Donald Trump Press Conference - 11/Jan/2017
Meryl Streep
TheWeeFlea.com: A Cry in the Dark? Dear Meryl…
Feedback on Israel.
Quantum 94 - Comments on Israel
Home Secretary's Hate Speech.
British police registered as a "hate incident" a speech by the Home Secretary at the Conservative Party conference after a professor of physics at Oxford University complained about it under hate-speech laws the Home Secretary herself okayed.
The Spectator: Watch: Andrew Neil skewers Oxford professor over hate crime claim
The Spectator: If Amber Rudd doesn’t like being investigated for a ‘hate incident’, she should change the law
UK Government minister labels opposition to Same Sex Marriage as ‘extremist.’
Nicola Sturgeon voices her support for TIE Campaign and LGBT-inclusive education.
Third Force News: Nicola Sturgeon commits to LGBT inclusive education in Scots schools
The Scotsman: Dare to debate this damaging idea that gender is a social construct
BBC iPlayer: Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?
Sunday Herald: Christian right accused of whipping up 'trans panic'
TheWeeFlea.com: Debate About Gender Issues – Letter in The Sunday Herald
Eugene Cernan.
Fox News: Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82
Nigerian Leaders Singing, "Oh God Our Help In Ages Past."
Saturday Jan 14, 2017
Saturday Jan 14, 2017
Dramatically increasing his stoning prospects, David Robertson doubles-down on the prophecies for 2017. This week's it's the prospects for the Church in the West;
- Mainstream decline.
- Post-modern evangelicals.
- American charismatic next big thing.
- Creflo Dollar won't be back.
- Greater unity.
- Salt and light in the public square.
- The Reformation.
- US Evangelicals split over Donald Trump.
- Reaching the poor.
- Africa and Asia.
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TheWeeFlea.com – Ten Prophecies re the Church in 2017
Saturday Jan 07, 2017
Saturday Jan 07, 2017
David Robertson is neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but as an observer of culture and society he gives ten suggestions that might be the main issues in this coming year; The Queen, Israel, Brexit, the War against Humanity, Islam and Islamophobia, Donald Trump, British Politics, Celebrities, Automation and Censorship.
Next week, it's the turn of the Church in 2017.
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TheWeeFlea.com - Ten ‘Prophecies’ for Society/Culture in 2017
Friday Dec 23, 2016
Friday Dec 23, 2016
A wee Christmas message from David Robertson and Andy Bannister.
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Rebuild Haiti - An EP of Christmas Songs
Help Mission International reach out to Haiti this Christmas by downloading their EP of songs by Scottish singer/songwriters David Henderson, Lins Honeyman and Allan McKinlay. Your donations - through Mission International - will help alleviate the poverty faced by so many in the amazing country that is Haiti.
https://rebuildhaiti.bandcamp.com/
SHORT/ANSWERS on Christmas.
05 | Is belief in God just like belief in Santa Claus?
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
This week, in the last Quantum for 2016, David Robertson looks at some of the world view messages that we're hearing (or not hearing) being expressed through the media.
1) Gender / Transgender Update.
2) University and Education
"Social constructionism is the doctrine that all human roles are socially constructed. They’re detached from the underlying biology and from the underlying objective world."Dr Jordan Petersen
3) Secular swimming pools
BBC - Funds raised to open pool in Lewis on Sabbath
National Secular Society - Sabbath swimming campaign succeeds, thanks to islanders and secularists
SPIN ALERT - Of course, another way of looking at this story is that, since the Indiegogo 60 day crowdfunding campaign was about to expire without meeting its fundraising pledge target, the 'All-or-Nothing' campaign would have collapsed without raising a penny unless the NSS had stepped in at the end to fund 20% themselves.
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of old devotees, that they believed without knowing why they believed. But the moderns believe without knowing what they believe - and without even knowing that they do believe it. Their freedom consists in first freely assuming a creed, and then freely forgetting that they are assuming it. In short, they have always an unconscious dogma; and an unconscious dogma is the definition of a prejudice."G.K. Chesterton, from an article in the Illustrated London News, March 15, 1919.