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Category Archives: Politics and sociology
…and they still lie
“Some of the effects were direct from the disease, but many of them were indirect by the lockdowns, which were in and of themselves unpredictable because they weren’t part of the plan.” Chris Whitty at COVID Enquiry. So speaks the man who was Chief Medical Officer in 2020. Note the “Some” from COVID opposed to the “Many” from lockdowns. And he lies anyway, because even I (a retired non-CMO GP) predicted the tragic outcomes before the lockdowns happened. At the time I didn’t even know that the pandemic plans of everyone up to the WHO excluded lockdowns because their ill effects were entirely predictable. But you don’t get knighthoods for … Continue reading
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Nickel-plating gold
Bret Weinstein, as many readers know, is an evolutionary biologist who has come on a long, and now familiar, journey from trusting Western institutions to seeing them as thoroughly, and even maliciously, corrupted. Most of you are probably acquainted with his departure from the woke Evergreen University over diversity, his realisation that the COVID response defied science and logic, and his coming round to perceiving that the overwhelming degree of error points to a deep-seated conspiracy of lies rather than to incompetence.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics and sociology, Theology
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More on anomalies
Not long ago I did a piece on the Shroud of Turin as an anomaly, both to science (as it appears to defy naturalistic explanations) and to faith (since, though potentially evidential, it is not mentioned in the documents or traditions of Christian faith).
Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Theology
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How Jesus is society’s only answer
As nearly everybody, even starry-eyed Christians, begins to get a sense of the dire situation into which British and Western culture has sunk, I’ve heard a number of people say stuff along the lines of “Politicians and scientists won’t save us – only Jesus is the answer.” And I don’t disagree… subject, though, to a number of serious qualifications.
Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Theology
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The undeceived don’t panic
Here’s an excellent piece by John Stackhouse, writing for the Jubilee Centre. I don’t know John, but I do know Guildford Baptist Church, of which he is senior pastor, well from the past. He sums up my own feeling that closing the door gratefully on the COVID era leaves Christians vulnerable not only to future lockdowns, but to all kinds of ungodly restrictions that might be sprung on us.
Posted in Politics and sociology, Theology
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More insights on the cult(ure)
Here’s an excellent article on The Daily Sceptic, taking a slightly different tack from my recent piece on The Hump on the same phenomena.
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The Syro-Phoenician sister’s lived experience
(The woke answer to Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30) So, I heard this faith-healer was speaking in Tyre, and I went to hear him because of my daughter’s mental health issues. If I’d realised he was Jewish, of course, I’d have been there with my “Death to Zionists” banners rather than thinking about my daughter, who always stays at home for protests because they trigger her. In fact, the only time I took her to one she was arrested for decking a policeman and screaming “Why don’t you arrest my demons instead, Pig?”. That’s where NHS child psychiatry gets you!
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Understanding the Cult Wars (or trying to)
Toby Young (of the Free Speech Union – join!) reports that he had a moment of revelation recently when he realised that England’s current ruling class is, in fact, a “technocratic theocracy,” acting in effect as a secular State Religion, its own beliefs being unchallengable truths, and its opponents irredeemably evil.
Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Theology
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Christians outsourcing persecution?
To follow up on my last-but-one post, consider this.
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Mental health and the young
Quite regularly some new statistic appears about the increasing levels of mental health problems amongst children and young adults. The latest survey suggests one in five souls aged from eight to twenty-five had a “probable” mental health issue in 2023. It seems the conditions primarily blamed are anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, and depression. That does not indicate a healthy society.
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