A few good links
A few links I found interesting for one reason or another:
Future Shape of Church – Ecumenical Matters
Parchment and Pen – When God Does Not Show Up
Center for Law and Religion – Can the State Order a Church to “De-Baptize” Someone?
Chelliah Laity – Bishops Accused of Not Being So Christian
Slate – That’s Obama’s Jobs Plan?
MercatorNet – Will the “Great Satan” strike a deal with Iran?
Tags: Christian Life, Christianity, Church Life, Law Moral Ethical, Politics
January 25th, 2012 at 10:20 am
In hoc signo vinces†
Bishops Accused of Not Being So Christian
Lord Carey praised the efforts of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith – whom he called a “committed Christian” – to overhaul a benefits system which, at its worst, “rewards fecklessness and irresponsibility”. – Ex-Archbishop Carey attacks bishops over benefit cap
This has to be shot down “fecklessness” is a label the Nazis used as moral justification for the extermination of people.
The welfare reform “debate” is descending into the evil madness of “Arbeit macht frei”, an evil madness that as these reforms take effect will be visible to all.
Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
January 25th, 2012 at 10:23 am
I’m glad you commented on Lord Carey Goy, I was so annoyed I nearly emailed you!
January 25th, 2012 at 10:27 am
In fact, if I had the wherewithal, I would blog a rebuttal.
January 25th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
That’s the one downside I noted of my visit to the USA. If you are penniless you’re in serious trouble, and it made me appreciate even more the help that is available over here, particularly the NHS.
January 25th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
@webmaster,
Sue Marsh, the fighting spirit of a Christian Saint. Lord Carey, an ideological scrounger and morally bankrupt.
January 25th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
We have personal experience of the effects of the cuts. One of my children is seriously disabled and last summer his Disability Living Allowance was stopped. This was a huge blow to us.
Happily the hospital backed us very fiercely and it was reinstated, but his consultant said about a third of his patients who had previously been eligible for DLA had been refused during 2011 – though nearly all of them won at appeal. Going to appeal causes huge stress – and a considerable amount of extra work for NHS staff – to regain a benefit that common sense would grant immediately. All these kids are all under the care of a specialist department and being actively treated – fraud simply isn’t possibly.
I am appalled to see that 12 doctors employed by ATOS, the firm paid to assess people claiming disability benefit are under investigation by the General Medical Council over allegations of improper conduct. There’s an article about it in The Observer.
January 25th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Goy, would you agree with the premise that all major political parties are now neo-Liberal?
January 25th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Stuart this is good, you’ll enjoy this:
Lame excuses for not praying
January 25th, 2012 at 7:00 pm
@webmaster,
YES!
January 25th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Will it implode on itself?
January 25th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Also, sorry Goy, what blogs would you recommend I follow? I’m now following Diary of a Benefit Scrounger….
January 25th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
@webmaster,
Most of my webtime is now spent squatting on your site (apology), the thoughts on neo-liberalism or ultra-liberalism have been my own.
Will it implode on itself?
I think christianity can act as a counter to ultra-liberalism, it is a strange kind of politics it is both a vechicle to totalitarianism (implode) and an inciting agent of totalitarianism (explode) – its initial moral and political ambiguity and obscurity is its strength.
Eric Voegelin (on Gnosticism) gets close to what maybe the root of ultra-liberalism.
January 26th, 2012 at 1:04 am
Never apologise Goy, it’s great having around.
And you know what, I’m starting to get this….