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Saturday 27 March 2021

Alun Turing £50 note

Bank of England £50 note                                                                                      Source: BBC News

The design of the Bank of England's new £50 note features the mathematician, codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing. It enters circulation on what would have been his birthday, 23 June.

 Alan Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon in 2013 following his 1952 conviction for gross indecency. He was arrested after having an affair with a 19-year-old Manchester man and chemically castrated.

In 2017 around 49,000 gay and bisexual men were pardoned for past convictions under the so-called Turing law.

Remorse over the death of Alan Turing and changing attitudes to homosexuality have been used by pressure groups to demand equality for just about any preference. Alleged 'victims' have become oppressors demanding conformity to their ideas. 

Credit: Elinor Carucci for TIME
'Rights' are demanded however bizarre the circumstances may appear.

Gender has become so confused that trans-sexual 'men' having babies can be classified as male gender. 

In 2019 the first three-parent baby was born.

Mice have already been created using cells from same sex parents. 

Channel 4 is currently running a series 'Strangers Making Babies' which follows a group of "single, would-be parents looking for a platonic partner to have a baby with".
 
These are not isolated individuals. There are 70,000 people signed up to co-parenting sites looking for platonic partners to have children 'without love'. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is was love!

The Church has become complicit by giving in to demands for blessing same sex unions and church weddings. 

Campaigners will rejoice at Alan Turing's well deserved recognition but it comes at a price.

Monday 22 March 2021

Repent, the end is nigh - for traditional Anglicanism



The Church of England is once again calling for repentance. This time for "historic links to the slave trade and anti-racism training" according to a leaked report referred to in the Mail Online

It claims that the Church of England will order a 30 per cent quota for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates on its leadership programme and demand 'repentance' for historic links to the slave trade.

A Church of England taskforce was set up by the Church after the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was 'sorry and ashamed' that 'we are still institutionally racist'. Only one of the 42 diocesan bishops come from BAME backgrounds.

Officials are also planning to provide information "giving context to church statues which may have caused 'pain or offence' as part of plans to tackle discrimination".

The Church of England has previously called for repentance over the role of Christians in 'centuries of antisemitism'. 

And of course there was the call to the Church to 'repent' for its treatment of lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians after 'more than 100 senior Anglicans signed an open letter calling on the Church of England to do so.

There is unlikely to be a call to repentance for the treatment of 'traditionalist' Anglicans forced to keep the faith without pastoral and sacramental support.

Anglicanism has been ditched by the Church of England and other Anglican provinces such as the now irrelevant Church in Wales which continues to pump itself up by promoting same sex marriage as it accelerates the demise of Anglicanism in Wales.

We cannot undo the past, nor can we repent for actions of our predecessors however 'sorry and ashamed' later generations may feel. 

As for removing statues, far better to use them as teaching aids to help get one's message across. 

How would Welby feel if he were to be immortalised in stone only to find his likeness shattered by future generations who held him responsible for helping to destroy Anglicanism in favour of secularism.

Postscript [30.03.2021]

The BAME agenda




Disabled women of colour are encouraged to apply for the post of Dean of Hereford to exploit the Cathedral's treasures including the Magna Carta, Chained Library and Mappa Mundi in its mission.

I tried the reference http://ctjob.uk/JN9090 for more information but it did not work for me.

I am not in the running anyway!

Friday 19 March 2021

"Anything you can do I can do better..."

Four of the first female Eagle Scouts, from left to right: Lauren Krimm, Mia Dawbin, 
Valerie Johnston and Ysa Duenas.                                                      Source: Twitter

(CNN) Valerie Johnston knew she wanted to be a Boy Scout since she was 6. "I always wanted to be able to earn everything that my brother and all his friends were earning," Johnston told CNN. "I had my own book, and I would check off the requirements and everything, so I would wonder like, 'Well why can't I earn these?'"

In 2011 it was reported that more girls than boys became scouts in the past year - the first time this has happened in the movement's history.

When girls were asked about admitting boys they said they wanted "Girlguiding to still be just for girls. So no boys allowed!"

The Girlguiding organisation invites parents to 'register their daughters' but Girlguiding is trans-inclusive.

This drew a 'furious response' on mumsnet with 507 messages. The first reads: 

"Sorry for DM link but this is important. Brownies and Guides are going to admit boys if they identify as girls. Girls will have to share 'single sex' facilities including tents & changing rooms with them. Parents won't be told. Oh, and men who identify as women can become Brownie & Guide leaders, where they will get to supervise girls in those tents, changing rooms etc.

"How is this possible? There is an epidemic of sexual abuse. We are still in the fall-out of Rotherham, Saville etc yet we are enabling men to have access to every safe space for girls. AIBU?" [Am I being unreasonable?]

Writing about the passage of the "(In)Equality Act'" through the US House of Representatives in Virtueonline the "So-Called 'Equality Act'" is described as 'The Most Dangerous Bill of Our Time':

"It will affect every aspect of human existence from cradle to grave...No area of existence in this life will be free from the reach of its tentacles... The key point to recognize about the bill is that it will codify into law that you are a bigot, the moral equivalent of a racist. Read the full article here.

Here in Great Britain misogyny is to be treated as a hate crime. As Archbishop Cranmer wrote in his blog: "Misogyny is to be outlawed. Excellent. Now, what does it mean?" Read his opinion here.

Opponents of the ordination of women have often been accused of misogyny even though many opponents are women and married men. 

'Misogyny'  and 'discrimination' are frequent accusations from feminists in response to genuine theological disagreement, using secular criteria to appeal to society.

But the Church is losing her influence. Wales Humanists are celebrating what they describe as a "major development for secularism in Wales" after the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) passed a bill that "officially includes humanism in the school curriculum of all public schools in Wales."

Wales Online reports: Traditional boundaries between subjects are scrapped and there will be instead six new areas of learning and experience (AoLEs). Mandatory in the new curriculum will be "Religion, values, and ethics" and "Relationships and sexuality education".

Formal RE lessons will be scrapped and replaced with “religion, values and ethics” so humanism will be given the same importance as Christianity and Islam.

In Canada a father has been arrested for “misgendering” his own 14-year-old child by calling her his “daughter,” and referring to her with the pronouns “she” and “her.”

The father had "previously discovered that his daughter’s school had been showing her sexual and gender identity education materials known as “SOGI 123,” which the report referred to as transgender 'propaganda videos'.

"By the 7th grade, the school had changed his daughter’s name in the yearbook without telling her parents, and “socially transitioned” her with the input of gender ideologue psychologist Wallace Wong, who advised the pubescent child to take testosterone."

Saturday 13 March 2021

Saturday 6 March 2021

The Way

I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.

In their coverage of Pope Francis' visit to Iraq, Sky News report that Pope Francis met Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani - Iraq's top Shia cleric - at the Islamic scholar's home in the Iraqi city of Najaf.

"The Pope arrived at the cleric's small home in a bullet-proof vehicle. As he entered the house, white doves were released, reflecting the themes of this four-day visit to Iraq - peace, reconciliation and inter-faith dialogue. The meeting - the first of its kind between two such senior leaders in the Christian and Muslim world - was held privately and holds huge symbolism."

Later at an inter-faith prayer service Pope Francis condemned extremism saying, "Hostility, extremism and violence are not born of a religious heart. They are betrayals of religion." 

But Islam is a political ideology diametrically opposed to the faith of Christians and others. Convert to Islam, pay the jizya, leave or die is the message in Islamic countries.

Violence and persecution against Christians in the Middle East has been cited as one of the key reasons for the exodus of Christians from the region. A century ago, Christians in the Middle East comprised 20 percent of the population; today, they constitute no more than 3-4 percent of the region’s population - The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East.

Followers of Islam live a life of complete submission to Allah, relegating Jesus Christ to the role of a  prophet. 

Jesus said "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

How many Christian leaders believe that today as they engage in dialogue with Muslims as though all Abrahamic faiths were basically the same.
 
I do not doubt the sincerity of Christian leaders but to date the result of dialogue has merely led to greater tolerance of Islam, excusing every atrocity as the work of radicalised fanatics while ignoring the Islamic aim of dominance and submission of all to Allah.

In Wales the diocese of Llandaff is currently pushing The Landscapes of Faith Festival: "a community treasure hunt to celebrate our world faith traditions in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism and the prehistoric sites in South Wales."

Nothing new of course. We have been here before.

Peace Mala. The Archbishop of Wales with supporters @StDavidsNeath.                         Source: Twitter @WelshMuslims


Postscripts

[16.03.2021]


While religious leaders talk, "Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado...More than 2,500 people have been killed and 700,000 have fled their homes since an Islamist insurgency began in 2017.The militants have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group."

So sad.

[20.03.2021]


Another example of Islam's inhuman regard for Christians. "Excluded by his Muslim relatives. Forced to leave he was left with no food, shelter or source of income."

For the love of God!