Christ v Bible / State Intro
The relationship between the Old Testament Historical Narrative/Conventional Religious Thinking and the Testimony of Christ is a great deal more than between just old and new ways of thinking. Essentially, the relationship is a dialogue between the man-made image of God and the image of God as a man of eternity. The consequence of canonising […]
Learn Nothing From History
Los Angeles Times local December 2010 “In December 1944, his prayer was answered. The weather miraculously cleared (it did eventually snow, but the prayer hadn’t mentioned snow), and Patton was able to get his army moving again. When the Germans launched their final attack against Allied Forces, the Battle of the Bulge, Patton swung his […]
The Dilemma of a Bipolar Church
Fox News Article Christmas 2010An article in FoxNews by Col. Oliver North typifies the confusion in the minds of the military concerning their relationship with God.He opens his article with a verse that contains the phrase, ‘thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.’Presumably Mr North thinks that the word […]
Both believers & unbelievers think that war gives meaning to their lives
I am well aware of some of the ways in which social engineering is used by the media to condition people to believe in a shared identity, a collectivized humanity under one flag, to die for the myth of nationalism. The BBC war narrative is good at achieving these nationalistic goals. Every week they slip […]
These are the heroes
17th Sept 2010 Private Bradley Manning decided to blow the whistle on one heinous crime (probably among thousands) committed by US Apache Helicopter Crews roaming the skies in Iraq to ‘blow away’ terrorists. The recorded conversations between command centre and crew reveals a chilling insight into the sociopathic condition of men trained to be hunters […]
OT rhetoric in Christendom
17th September 2010 An article written by Robert Koehler on AntiWar.com’s website also touches on the very real problem concerning the extremely worrying rhetoric of US military leaders claiming to be Christian Warriors. The language they use is not dissimilar from the language of radical jihad Islamic fundamentalists. The reason for parity in the type […]