Ban the burqa, ban cousin marriages. Deport any who do not integrate into our society. Basic Christian beliefs should be taught in all schools. Also British history and literature, especially Shakespeare.
Welcome sister in Christ to the family of God our Father!
Such a joyous occasion for you, as mine was for me 36 years ago. We met in Melksham (did you know Boaz won his seat?) and I wish I’d known then you were on your faith journey as I’d have loved to have prayed with you. God bless you Alex 🙏💕
Congratulations and God's blessings on your baptism. As a Catholic Priest I have to ask if the baptism was done in the correct form which I suspect it was but for the record the exact words are... "I baptize you in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit".
I would wonder why you call yourself father when the Bible specifically states “ call no man father “ perhaps you could question that instead of the words used in a Christian baptism
Baptism is so important I though you would be concerned with using the EXACT words Christ commanded us to us, but what do I know. As for your other question I suggest you look here
If you have an open wound from a fall, you clean it out and patch it up and check on it until its healed, you absolutely do not allow it to fester because the bacteria should have equality of outcome. If you do that you risk the pathogens killing the host. It's absolutely the same in our society and economies. When we identify something that is putting the host at risk we should in no uncertain terms address it. Every parent knows that to be able to help their children they need to be okay themselves and that requires saying NO to the take take take. If we want to retain the store of value built by 400 years of Christian values and leverage it to help lift the rest of the world out of fuel poverty and towards a post scarcity future then we have to ensure, now, that we will still be in good enough shape to do it. Posts about that over on my substack.
Congratulations on your baptism! I’m also sorry to hear that your car was badly vandalized the other day. I actually worry about the future of British Jews.
Warmest congratulations, Alex, and thanks for your continuing good work. I completely agree with what you have written here. We cannot go on pretending there is moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam.
An interesting article highlighting the blatant misogyny clearly rife in Islam which is clearly resembles a medieval cult more than a religion compatible with modern times regarding any civilised society. That all being said, you fail to mention the clearly misogynist passages in the bible and fact that only male Reverends are accepted by the church you purport to be part of which isn’t reporting the full picture.
Christianity for the most part has been a negative influence in Britain holding back scientific advancements, executing various groups ( including atheists) and various women for being “devils” etc. Simply because Islam is much worse and where Christianity was 500 years ago, doesn’t validate the latter. Non religious/ Non Christian countries like Japan enjoy a higher standard of living and clear evidence you don’t need Christianity to combat Islam.
Both religions are essentially incompatible with any intellectual discussion regarding our place in the cosmos and the idea that we should aspire to be tea drinking Christians is fanciful to say the least. For centuries “Christians” have been murdering, raping and torturing various groups of people along with jailing various people who have attempted to advance society such as Galileo who was effectively imprisoned after releasing his heliocentrism theory ( which was correct) of planets orbiting the sun rather than the Earth being the epicentre of the solar system. Thankfully most leading academics are moving away from religious models of our place in the universe which to me seems a logical course of human development as intelligence levels of the general population increase. People are free to believe in what they choose, but there is no place in any school for any religion including Christianity. You say the country is Christian, but the church attendances and fact that most people wouldn’t know biblical verses from passages in a book written by Hans Christian Andersen suggest otherwise
Your comments here are extremely ignorant, Dr Wolf. Rather than Christianity holding back scientific advancements, it is widely attested - including by atheists and agnostics - that Christians and Christian thought played a foundational role in the development of modern science. It is also worth noting that both Galileo and Copernicus were Christians, and that the opposition they faced came largely from the universities rather than the church. Ironically, it was attachment to pagan ideas about the cosmos that caused them to counter the new theories.
Coming from someone believing in a book that has a talking donkey, talking snake and possessed goat, I wouldn't be calling anyone ignorant Craig. The scientific community has the highest percentage of atheists in it of virtually any profession in the world. In terms of scientists and people of that era being "Christians" , well they had no choice other than say that or they would be likely jailed or possibly worse if they were atheists. Not that someone like you has given the matter much thought though. I study things like Quantum physics -a fundamental branch of physics that describes the behaviour of matter and energy at the smallest scales, such as atoms and subatomic particles -you follow a book with talking animals. Your IQ is probably about 85 chap
I can see that you are a highly disrespectful, arrogant and presumptuous individual, Dr Wolf. You are simply making unqualified claims about the history of science, based on nothing more than sheer hateful prejudice. For someone who claims to know about science, I might have expected about more knowledge as to the origins of your whole discipline. Then again, Dawkins is world-renowned and is just as ignorant about the Bible and history and the factors that created the scientific revolution. On the other hand, he has at least had the humility in recent days to recognise that he is a cultural Christian. Which was something barely imaginable just a few years ago. If you do have any curiosity to fill the evident gaps in your own knowledge, you might do well to read The Return of the God Hypothesis, a book which gives very strong arguments for why believing in God has never been more credible on a scientific level. Alternatively, you could just listen to Stephen Meyer on YouTube. I don't have much hope that you will do any of this, however, as you seem very fanatical in your devotion to scientific materialism. Well, that's the religious for you, after all! Evidence and reason have absolutely no importance to such people.
You started the "disrespect" in the reply Craig, so don't play the victim when you get back what you dish out, as you are in no position to be talking about ignorance. It isn't "hateful prejudice", you can follow you silly sky fairy in the clouds with nonsense books of Noah's Ark floating about , but don't cry when people challenge this absurd narrative based on a book of fiction. The bible has inspired no scientific advancement ever in human history - after all what could be advanced based on a book written in an era when people believed in horse headed demons, "amulets " to ward off the devil and sacrifices being made to appease the "Gods"
Dawkins is an atheist, it doesn't matter what bizarre claims you make about "cultural Christianity". It's irrelevant anyway, we are talking about Christianity not atheism- you believe in talking animals, water turned to wine and people being brought back from the dead because a book written by mankind said so.
Answer this then Criag, you seem to think you are on the right side of the argument - do you believe in evolution. If the answer is yes, the whole narrative of the "garden of Eden" is fiction, if you don't you are arguing against the general consensus of all scientific opinion using quantifiable evidence of something close to 100% fact. Evolution on its own knocks Christianity into a cocked hat let alone the other rubbish your faith holds to be true. A book that was written in an era where children/animals were sacrificed, people were castrated to honour Cybele (Phrygian goddess)
You are really disgusting, sir, and I grow tired of these exchanges with such a loathsome man. In terms of who started the disrespect, the only reason I engaged with you at all was because you mocked a woman for being baptised. That was really very low, whatever one's opinion of Christianity or religion in general. As for evolution, it really depends on what you're talking about, but if it's the molecules to man nonsense then no, I certainly don't believe in that, and I don't believe in it because it cannot, and has not EVER, been demonstrated empirically. To be sure, we can observe small changes within species, like a beak growing bigger or smaller, but that is nothing but adaptation to the environment and is perfectly in keeping with what one should expect in God's creation. The rest of the evolutionary narrative is nothing but fanciful science fiction, which is why increasing numbers of scientists and lay people alike are turning away from its silly claims. Anyway, I don't why I bother since you are quite indifferent to evidence of any sort, and only have the capacity to dole out mockery to anything and anyone you don't agree with. I shan't be corresponding with you anymore, but I do pray you may find the courage to explore what lies beyond your complacent materialist assumptions.
Personally I feel the burka and halal bans are distracting everyone away from the most important issue and that’s a national enquiry into these grooming gangs R ape. We can’t let this fade away again, these girls deserve better and all those involved in coverup brought to justice.
I`m` glad you have become a Christian and are now in the fight, against the darkness that`s in this world. We have a name for it, its called Islam. I have watched you many times on the TV and have enjoyed your debates. You chime in with the rest of us Alex. Those of us that can see “ the emperor has no clothes” and are not afraid to call it out. That`s why I was a bit surprised, at your out burst, against Ben Habib on the Dan Wootton show. A little bit over the top and even poor old Dan came in for some tongue lashing. I think we need Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe to hold Reform and Farage to account. I must say, I thought the treatment of Rupert Lowe by the hands of Farage, Anderson and Yusef, was disgusting. I for one , hope that Mr Lowe takes them to court for defamation of character. Reform needs to clean their act up, before they can take the keys to number 10. I do hope, that they don`t let the rest of us down. We`ve all had enough of broken promises and nasty vile politicians………….
Way back the D of E confirmed that Madrassas (set up here,there and everywhere - I know this from living for 25 years in inner city Easton, Bristol, with a large Muslim population) are not monitored.
Congratulations! ❤
Ban the burqa, ban cousin marriages. Deport any who do not integrate into our society. Basic Christian beliefs should be taught in all schools. Also British history and literature, especially Shakespeare.
Welcome sister in Christ to the family of God our Father!
Such a joyous occasion for you, as mine was for me 36 years ago. We met in Melksham (did you know Boaz won his seat?) and I wish I’d known then you were on your faith journey as I’d have loved to have prayed with you. God bless you Alex 🙏💕
Congratulations and God's blessings on your baptism. As a Catholic Priest I have to ask if the baptism was done in the correct form which I suspect it was but for the record the exact words are... "I baptize you in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit".
God bless Fr. Allan
I had a proper Canon do the liturgy and am registered in his Parish. No cutting corners. It needed to be official
couldn't agree more.
I would wonder why you call yourself father when the Bible specifically states “ call no man father “ perhaps you could question that instead of the words used in a Christian baptism
Kathy
Baptism is so important I though you would be concerned with using the EXACT words Christ commanded us to us, but what do I know. As for your other question I suggest you look here
https://www.catholic.com/tract/call-no-man-father
If you have an open wound from a fall, you clean it out and patch it up and check on it until its healed, you absolutely do not allow it to fester because the bacteria should have equality of outcome. If you do that you risk the pathogens killing the host. It's absolutely the same in our society and economies. When we identify something that is putting the host at risk we should in no uncertain terms address it. Every parent knows that to be able to help their children they need to be okay themselves and that requires saying NO to the take take take. If we want to retain the store of value built by 400 years of Christian values and leverage it to help lift the rest of the world out of fuel poverty and towards a post scarcity future then we have to ensure, now, that we will still be in good enough shape to do it. Posts about that over on my substack.
Congratulations on your baptism! I’m also sorry to hear that your car was badly vandalized the other day. I actually worry about the future of British Jews.
Warmest congratulations, Alex, and thanks for your continuing good work. I completely agree with what you have written here. We cannot go on pretending there is moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam.
An interesting article highlighting the blatant misogyny clearly rife in Islam which is clearly resembles a medieval cult more than a religion compatible with modern times regarding any civilised society. That all being said, you fail to mention the clearly misogynist passages in the bible and fact that only male Reverends are accepted by the church you purport to be part of which isn’t reporting the full picture.
Christianity for the most part has been a negative influence in Britain holding back scientific advancements, executing various groups ( including atheists) and various women for being “devils” etc. Simply because Islam is much worse and where Christianity was 500 years ago, doesn’t validate the latter. Non religious/ Non Christian countries like Japan enjoy a higher standard of living and clear evidence you don’t need Christianity to combat Islam.
Both religions are essentially incompatible with any intellectual discussion regarding our place in the cosmos and the idea that we should aspire to be tea drinking Christians is fanciful to say the least. For centuries “Christians” have been murdering, raping and torturing various groups of people along with jailing various people who have attempted to advance society such as Galileo who was effectively imprisoned after releasing his heliocentrism theory ( which was correct) of planets orbiting the sun rather than the Earth being the epicentre of the solar system. Thankfully most leading academics are moving away from religious models of our place in the universe which to me seems a logical course of human development as intelligence levels of the general population increase. People are free to believe in what they choose, but there is no place in any school for any religion including Christianity. You say the country is Christian, but the church attendances and fact that most people wouldn’t know biblical verses from passages in a book written by Hans Christian Andersen suggest otherwise
Your comments here are extremely ignorant, Dr Wolf. Rather than Christianity holding back scientific advancements, it is widely attested - including by atheists and agnostics - that Christians and Christian thought played a foundational role in the development of modern science. It is also worth noting that both Galileo and Copernicus were Christians, and that the opposition they faced came largely from the universities rather than the church. Ironically, it was attachment to pagan ideas about the cosmos that caused them to counter the new theories.
Coming from someone believing in a book that has a talking donkey, talking snake and possessed goat, I wouldn't be calling anyone ignorant Craig. The scientific community has the highest percentage of atheists in it of virtually any profession in the world. In terms of scientists and people of that era being "Christians" , well they had no choice other than say that or they would be likely jailed or possibly worse if they were atheists. Not that someone like you has given the matter much thought though. I study things like Quantum physics -a fundamental branch of physics that describes the behaviour of matter and energy at the smallest scales, such as atoms and subatomic particles -you follow a book with talking animals. Your IQ is probably about 85 chap
I can see that you are a highly disrespectful, arrogant and presumptuous individual, Dr Wolf. You are simply making unqualified claims about the history of science, based on nothing more than sheer hateful prejudice. For someone who claims to know about science, I might have expected about more knowledge as to the origins of your whole discipline. Then again, Dawkins is world-renowned and is just as ignorant about the Bible and history and the factors that created the scientific revolution. On the other hand, he has at least had the humility in recent days to recognise that he is a cultural Christian. Which was something barely imaginable just a few years ago. If you do have any curiosity to fill the evident gaps in your own knowledge, you might do well to read The Return of the God Hypothesis, a book which gives very strong arguments for why believing in God has never been more credible on a scientific level. Alternatively, you could just listen to Stephen Meyer on YouTube. I don't have much hope that you will do any of this, however, as you seem very fanatical in your devotion to scientific materialism. Well, that's the religious for you, after all! Evidence and reason have absolutely no importance to such people.
You started the "disrespect" in the reply Craig, so don't play the victim when you get back what you dish out, as you are in no position to be talking about ignorance. It isn't "hateful prejudice", you can follow you silly sky fairy in the clouds with nonsense books of Noah's Ark floating about , but don't cry when people challenge this absurd narrative based on a book of fiction. The bible has inspired no scientific advancement ever in human history - after all what could be advanced based on a book written in an era when people believed in horse headed demons, "amulets " to ward off the devil and sacrifices being made to appease the "Gods"
Dawkins is an atheist, it doesn't matter what bizarre claims you make about "cultural Christianity". It's irrelevant anyway, we are talking about Christianity not atheism- you believe in talking animals, water turned to wine and people being brought back from the dead because a book written by mankind said so.
Answer this then Criag, you seem to think you are on the right side of the argument - do you believe in evolution. If the answer is yes, the whole narrative of the "garden of Eden" is fiction, if you don't you are arguing against the general consensus of all scientific opinion using quantifiable evidence of something close to 100% fact. Evolution on its own knocks Christianity into a cocked hat let alone the other rubbish your faith holds to be true. A book that was written in an era where children/animals were sacrificed, people were castrated to honour Cybele (Phrygian goddess)
and you/other people believe it lol.
You are really disgusting, sir, and I grow tired of these exchanges with such a loathsome man. In terms of who started the disrespect, the only reason I engaged with you at all was because you mocked a woman for being baptised. That was really very low, whatever one's opinion of Christianity or religion in general. As for evolution, it really depends on what you're talking about, but if it's the molecules to man nonsense then no, I certainly don't believe in that, and I don't believe in it because it cannot, and has not EVER, been demonstrated empirically. To be sure, we can observe small changes within species, like a beak growing bigger or smaller, but that is nothing but adaptation to the environment and is perfectly in keeping with what one should expect in God's creation. The rest of the evolutionary narrative is nothing but fanciful science fiction, which is why increasing numbers of scientists and lay people alike are turning away from its silly claims. Anyway, I don't why I bother since you are quite indifferent to evidence of any sort, and only have the capacity to dole out mockery to anything and anyone you don't agree with. I shan't be corresponding with you anymore, but I do pray you may find the courage to explore what lies beyond your complacent materialist assumptions.
Personally I feel the burka and halal bans are distracting everyone away from the most important issue and that’s a national enquiry into these grooming gangs R ape. We can’t let this fade away again, these girls deserve better and all those involved in coverup brought to justice.
Congratulations on your Baptism Alex, it strangely bought a tear to my eye.
Well said ,Alex. I couldn't agree more.Congratulations on your Baptism. Keep fighting for truth and justice God Bless 🙏x
I`m` glad you have become a Christian and are now in the fight, against the darkness that`s in this world. We have a name for it, its called Islam. I have watched you many times on the TV and have enjoyed your debates. You chime in with the rest of us Alex. Those of us that can see “ the emperor has no clothes” and are not afraid to call it out. That`s why I was a bit surprised, at your out burst, against Ben Habib on the Dan Wootton show. A little bit over the top and even poor old Dan came in for some tongue lashing. I think we need Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe to hold Reform and Farage to account. I must say, I thought the treatment of Rupert Lowe by the hands of Farage, Anderson and Yusef, was disgusting. I for one , hope that Mr Lowe takes them to court for defamation of character. Reform needs to clean their act up, before they can take the keys to number 10. I do hope, that they don`t let the rest of us down. We`ve all had enough of broken promises and nasty vile politicians………….
Sorry Alex congratulations on your baptism. God bless you
Way back the D of E confirmed that Madrassas (set up here,there and everywhere - I know this from living for 25 years in inner city Easton, Bristol, with a large Muslim population) are not monitored.
Hmmmmm
Soooo pleased for you Alex. Hope you had a happy bappy. Love your smiling face and your Spirit when I see you on Talk TV. Be blessed. Ivor x
Thank you Alex. https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/01/removing-your-hijab-can-get-you-killed-even-in-the-west/