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War, peace and the gospel
There is a strong anti-empire theme in the book of Revelation, which my church is studying at the moment – and very appropriately too, given the imperial war in which the Western US Empire is engaged, more and more openly (without parliamentary or popular vote) and not just using Ukraine as a proxy. Jeremiah 51:1-14 is worth reflecting on as to the nature of our current situation, I feel.
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Psychology of terminal diagnosis of a civilization
The unusual (and more or less simultaneous) outbreaks of violence at both the recent Notting Hill Carnival and the Reading Festival made me wonder if there is some particular sociological significance to it. This is especially so since other episodes of street violence and looting, including one in Oxford Street, have occurred in recent weeks, although they were little reported.
Posted in History, Medicine, Politics and sociology, Theology
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The old, old story
I’m currently reading Michael Denton’s new book, The Miracle of Man, which explores some of the astonishing fine tuning of the Universe not only for life, but for human life. I must do a blog on it soon, but my first reaction was a sense of resentment at how the insane deception now surrounding us on every side has drawn me from a decade of study of such wonders of nature (and hence of God) to filling these pages with stuff categorised as “politics and sociology”.
Posted in Creation, History, Philosophy, Theology
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Restoring the nations
An important post by Alexander Mercouris describes important speeches by both President Putin and Defence Minister Shoigu in Moscow. As the title, Putin, Shoigu Pitch Russia as Main Opponent of Globalisation indicates, the Russian Government is now pitching itself squarely against the globalisation pushed by the WEF and the ever-mysterious “them,” which so many of us have come to see as a major threat, if not an end-times climax to history.
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When the law becomes a tool of the State
An English friend in the US has reminded me of the current case of the journalist Graham Phillips, an English citizen journalist who has been reporting from Donbas since 2014, but who has now been put under anti-Russian sanctions by our government. He interviews the wrong people, and they say the wrong things, as far as our official narrative is concerned. This means his bank assets can all be seized, together with any residence he owns in England.
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Not yet the end times? New signs of the times.
Four years ago I was developing the idea – later than some but sooner than many – that in the West we are now living in a propaganda state. The following year I refined my research, in the light of the deceptive messaging impacting my own church, into the Samizdat e-book Seeing through Smoke, and not long afterwards the floodgates of delusion were opened in the form of the COVID lockdown disaster and all that has followed it.
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A poke at the Pope
I recently criticised Mattias Desmet for recycling – or actually elaborating for himself – a myth that Jesuits burned Native Americans at the stake in order to convert them. He did this through careless scholarship, but in a popular work that is likely to ensure the myth gets repeated until it becomes established fact.
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The Passion of Christ as a Mass Formation event
I may have criticised one paragraph of Mattias Desmet’s Psychology of Totalitarianism in my last post, but his overall thesis is compelling and powerful. I find myself wondering if it might help cast light on what, humanly speaking, led to the trial and crucifixion of the Lord Jesus.
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The psychology of agnosticism
Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism is arguably essential reading in understanding how it is that not only is the narrative running in the “Collective West” a pack of lies, but that a big majority of ordinary people believe the lies so fanatically that they marginalise any objectors.
Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Science
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As it was told in days of old…in the Church
Of all the confusions befuddling the people of Britain (mirroring those in the rest of the Collective West), one that seems to be most widely criticised is the wanton destruction of our literary culture in schools and universities.
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