City Bible Forum weekly talks start today in the Sydney CBD with a special topic - “Where was God in the bushfires?”
Speaker: Dominic Steele.
Time: Wednesday 12.10pm or 1.10pm, or Thursday 1.10pm.
Location: 123 Pitt Street (Angel Place Conference Centre) Martin Place for the Wednesday talks, or Chapter House (St Andrews Cathedral) Town Hall for the Thursday.
Cost: Free to bring lunch in or pay $7 for their lunch.
Will try for Wednesday 1.10pm, should be interesting stuff!
]]>Who knew climate scientists and environmentalists were despots bent on taking over the world and killing hundreds of millions of people? Climate change “sceptics”, that’s who!
Vaclav Klaus, climate change denialist, president of the European Union and the Czech Republic:
“The environmentalists don’t want to change the climate. They want to change us and our behaviour,” he told the Heartland conference. “Their ambition is to control and manipulate us. Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising they recommend preventing [climate change], not adaptive policies. Adaptation would be a voluntary behaviour.”
Environmentalism had replaced socialism as the totalitarian threat to freedom in the 21st century, he said.
“Environmentalists … do not want to reveal their true plans and ambitions: to stop economic development and return mankind centuries back.”
Threat to freedom! Wow.
Carter described the most powerful speaker [at the conference] as Arthur Robinson, a professor of chemistry and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. In a wake-up call to Christian groups who have rushed to embrace climate alarmism, Robinson pointed out the world’s poor will bear the brunt of carbon prohibition policies.
He described as “technological genocide” efforts to deny cheap energy, in the form of coal-fired power plants, to the Third World. “Billions of people who live at the lowest level of human existence will suffer greatly from the rationing of energy, and this, in turn, will lead to the death of hundreds of millions.”
Banning the use of DDT for mosquito eradication was the first “example of genocide by the removal of technology, [resulting] in the deaths of 30 to 40 million people and [leaving] half a billion infected with malaria”.
A wake up call to Christian groups from someone who is - surprise! - not a climate scientist eh?
Just as well the poor farmers aren’t dependent on the climate for the livelihood I guess.
Too much crazy? No sir!
He also told to the conference, in excerpts posted on YouTube, “Most arguments about global warming boil down to science versus authority. For much of the public, authority will generally win, since they do not wish to deal with science … Those who are committed to warming alarm as either a vehicle for a post-modern coup d’etat or for illicit profits will obviously try to obfuscate matters.”
A “post-modern coup d’etat”! You couldn’t make this stuff up. Unless you were crazy. Which these guys apparently are.
Why were a bunch of crazies getting together to discuss conspiracy theories?
Well, it turns out that 2000 actual experts were meeting and the news is rather grim (NY Times):
At the opening of yesterday’s session, Lord Nicholas Stern, former chief economist for the World Bank, added his own dose of gloom by saying that his now-famous report on the risks of global warming, written for the British government in 2006, had underestimated them. “The reason is that emissions are growing faster than we thought, the absorption capacity of the planet is less than we thought, the probability of high temperatures is likely higher than we thought, and some of the effects are coming faster than we thought,” he explained
Yup, far from alarmism, the risks have been underestimated.
]]>It preaches frequent sex as the cure for temptation and lust - so what the heck are singles supposed to do?
Really gets me annoyed seeing tripe that that peddled on allegedly christian websites. WHEN are people going to understand there is an important and essential ministry to singles in this modern western 20th century family dominated church of ours?
]]>My question is “was Mohammed a terrorist, and do his teachings inspire terrorists?”
This website True history of Islam which offers this:
Just a cursory look at Muhammad’s Qur’an (Koran) should be enough to warn you to keep your distance from Islam:
In it you will see “unbridled raw evil”, such as statements like these:
- Truly, god loves those who fight
- Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and seize them,
beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem.
- Chop off their hands and chop off their fingertips
- When you meet the unbelievers, chop off their heads
- Fight and slay those who don’t convert wherever you find
them
- Believers, take neither Jew nor Christians for your friends
- Those who follow Muhammad are ruthless to unbelievers
- Those who reject Islam are “the vilest of creatures” and thus deserve
no mercy
- Fight them until Islam reigns supreme (throughout the world)There are more than 100 verses in the Qur’an (Koran) advocating the use of violence to spread Islam. There are exactly 123 verses in the Qur’an about killing and fighting.
The word “Islam” has been falsely proclaimed by Muslims to mean peace. The word Islam, actually means “submission” to the Muslim god of intolerance and hatred. It comes from the root Arabic word “taslim”. In Arabic, the word for peace is only “solh”.
and this one Was Mohammed a terrorist? says:
Was Muhammad a terrorist? Of course he was. You’ve seen the information quoted exclusively from Islamic source materials. And there are many more crimes committed by Muhammad that could be detailed. To keep this article brief I only listed five. Yes Muhammad was a terrorist, and yes, terrorism is allowed in Islam. And yes, Fundamentalist Muslims are in a state of war with all those who reject Islam and terrorism is a legitimate weapon for their use.
I would hope that western mass media point out these facts in order to help both Muslims and non-Muslims look at the person who inspires such great following in the world. I would also hope that the message of Jesus Christ and the gospel should also be spelled out more clearly to the world.
Jesus is the only person with the message of hope and salvation, and a person like Mohammed is only counteracting this message with his lies which only lead to the despair we see so many Muslims (like David Hicks) living, as they live lives in slavery to the wrong message.
]]>My wife sent me these, even though most of them were first told to her by me.
1. Two antennas meet on a roof, fall in love and get married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.
2. Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.
One says, “I’ve lost my electron.”
The other says, “Are you sure?”
The first replies, “Yes, I’m positive…”
3. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, “I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything.”
4. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.
5. A sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Sorry we don’t serve food in here.”
6. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
7. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says:
“A beer please, and one for the road.”
8. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: “Does this taste funny to you?”
9. “Doc, I can’t stop singing ‘The Green, Green Grass of Home.’”
“That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome.”
“Is it common?”
Doc says “It’s Not Unusual.”
11. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.
12. A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet and says, “My dog’s cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?”
“Well,” says the vet, “let’s have a look at him.”
So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his teeth.
Finally, he says, “I’m going to have to put him down.”
“What? Because he’s cross-eyed?”
“No, because he’s really heavy.”
But what about a non-sexual romantic relationship between two people of the same sex? Does the Bible say anything explicit about such relationships? What about implicit? Any ideas?
]]>I watched The Dark Knight on DVD last night, and despite very positive reviews I thought it was overrated - maybe something was lost in the transition to the small screen, or I needed to see the prev movies or something, but it just didn’t seem to have much soul. 3 stars.
What have you seen lately?
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