This morning I was listening to a Radio programme by a trusted preacher and teacher. He was speaking about the things that people think of as Christian or taught in the Bible, but that are not, like:

• Eve eating an Apple, when all the Bible tells us is that it was a fruit.
• There being three wise men at the birth of Jesus when we do not actually know how many there were and we can be pretty sure that they did not come along until much later, may be even two years after the birth of Christ.

They also talked about the fact that we should not be celebrating Easter as it is not a Biblical feast, but a pagan fertility festival.

So far so good – I could not agree with them more.

Then they talked about the King James Version, (KJV), of the Bible having mistranslated the Greek work pascha as Easter where all the other Bibles have this rightly translated as Passover.

Humm!

This is where bells began to ring! Read the rest of this entry »

Co-operation is good, right? Yes of course it is. A strong police state is good, right? I mean if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. A surveillance society where your phonecalls, e-mails, web browsing habits are monitored has no fear for the good citizen does it? CCTV cameras prevent crime and help to find those who still do commit crime don’t they?

The answer to all of these is of course a resounding YES! Well, that is in a perfect world.

In a perfect world the fact that the supermarkets know everything you normally buy and know when you are likely to be in to buy it again is all to your good and will help them to serve you more efficiently.
In the perfect world the banks knowing your normal spending habits will help them to detect fraud. (Mind you in the perfect world there would be no fraud would there!).

In the perfect world the leaders of nations coming together to help solve global problems would be a good thing. Even the formation of global organizations; International Monetory Funds, World Banks, the United Nations would be a good thing, possibly a very good thing. Each nation acting equitably toward each other, except ‘nations’ wouldn’t probably be allowed!

But who lives in a perfect world? Read the rest of this entry »

According to a senior aid to Sarkozy, (Alain Minc), The French President thinks that Tony Blair is the only man who can help Europe stand up to the rest of the world. [Editors note: for 'stand up to' read join, become a province of the World Government]

Mince, (a political ‘Mr Fixit’ like Peter Mandelson), apparently made this remark when he was attending the Franco British Colloque, a high-powered discussion group of British and French politicians, civil servants and opinion-formers.

Descutions at the meeting are confidential, but apparently the Mail on Sunday has ‘established that Mr Minc used the meeting to win support for Mr Sarkozy’s campaign to ensure Mr Blair becomes the President of Europe’.

Mr Sarkozy’s support comes just after Tony Blair paid glowing tribute to the French President’s recent performance as the EU’s rotating president. Mr Blair said Read the rest of this entry »