Sunday, December 23, 2007
What holidays?

Each time i have to stand listening to Tv presenters or colleagues wish me happy holidays i just want to scream loudly "what holidays"?

The PC machine is active again, working overtime to ensure that with each passing year the christian significance of December 25 is eroded from public consciousness. Only 1 in 5 public schools in the UK will be putting up nativity plays this year.
We are constantly being told to tone down the religious significance of the birth of Christ so as not to "offend" those of opposite religious leanings. Using the term "merry christmas" in the media is probably likely to cost a job or at least a harsh reprimand. This in the same society that fell over itself in the bid to wish Jews a happy hanukah and a happy Eid to muslims just a few weeks ago?

While growing up as a child in Nigeria, christmas was all about the manger, the 3 wise men and the birth of the Saviour. Today's children now associate the "winter solstice" with decorative lights, toys and the white bearded man from the north pole.
Easter was first to be replaced by easter bunnies and mystery eggs, now atheists remind us that christmas was actually a pagan celebration stolen by the church. The irony is that those who claim NOT to believe in God would rather celebrate a day that early pagans reserved to worship the sun "god".

Everywhere is awash with signs wishing us a happy holidays, unfortunately few are bothering to ask . . . what really are we celebrating? Another period of greedy consumerism? Just like not everyone bothers to participate in ramadan celebrations, christmas is not forced on us all. Sadly no thanks to the commercialisation of christmas, everyone wants to be a part of it . . . with the exclusion of the religious aspect. With the help of political correctness they just might get their wish.
 
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Mahmoud the blogger
I stumbled on the blog maintained by the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, today while trawling the net.

On impulse i decided to leave a comment : Sir, isnt it hypocritical that you berate the US for fingerprinting foreign nationals? Are you telling us that visitors to Iran do not go through this purely security procedure? Why the cries about the US denying entry to people it deems a security risk? Since when did it lose its sovereign right to decide who enters its borders . . the same rights Iran enjoys? Isnt it the same Iran that forbids Isrealis from visiting Iran?
Pls sir, people who live in glass houses dont usually throw stones . . . you are throwing big rocks and very soon your glass house will come crashing down on you.
By the way, found any homosexuals in iran yet?


Let's hope it gets published . . . "after it has been reviewed".

I'm sure Mahmoud will get millions of visitors to his blog, less than 10% of them will be going there to read what he has to say. If it is anything along the lines of "there are no homosexuals in Iran" then lets all thank him for providing us some form of internet comic relief.
 
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Give the Lawd a bigggg hand!
Senator Charles Grassley is certainly on a collision course with the stupendously "blessed" leaders of the Word of Faith movement in the US. With the exception of Joyce Meyer, all other mighty men of Gawd have so far refused to respond to a congressional investigation into mismanagement of funds generated from tax-exempt "faith" ministeries.

Perhaps we need to remind the likes of Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland that Jesus Christ was certainly a firm believer in respecting constituted government authority. One would have thought they would be only too happy to share in the bountiful "harvest" that Gawd has rewarded them with.
I wont be surprised if some are already preparing sermons on "persecution". It would be a good idea if they bothered to understand that Christ did not dodge his taxes by hiding under the banner of "touch not my anointed".

They came with the bible; dusty, poor and desperate . . . then told us to close our eyes and pray, by the time we opened them we had the bible and they had our salaries.

Give Gawd a big hand!
 
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
What would Mohammed do?
"Why do people keep provoking the muslims? "

I allowed myself a brief moment to ponder over this question that was posed by a certain muslim shortly after the now typical muslim "outrage" over the Danish cartoons. If this is the real mindset of the average muslim then we are in deep trouble! If to draw a cartoon, attempt to preach gently, criticise and ask questions is to "provoke the muslims" then one wonders how much patience exists in this religion of "peace".

Gillian Gibbons is now back in the relative safety of Liverpool but the circumstances surrounding her sourjourn in Sudan will continue to dominate world politics long after she must have forgotten the spelling of the name "mohammed". How did thousands of Sudanese get so much time off work to wave clubs, knives and go chanting in the street for Gillian's head? Why the silence from those who constantly deceive us in the name of "moderate" islam? As the world slides ever closer towards the precipice of islamic hostage, i start to wonder when the bending over backwards to accomodate the violent cult that cloaks itself in the garments of "peace" will stop.

While muslims cry about the teddy bear named after a 7yr old pupil, there is pindrop silence about the several mohammeds slaughtering innocent Darfurians. In a nation where 200,000 have been killed and millions displaced in one of Africa's worst cases of genocide, the government seems more interested in fighting Mohammed's battles.

I start to wonder, what would mohammed himself have done? Would he be turning in the grave as muslims "hijack his religion"? A cursory look at the quran and hadith disabuse my mind . . . most likely mohammed would have asked for Gillian's head on a charger while laughing so excessively as to expose his molars.
Mohammed was no different from his adherents today, infact we do them a great diservice by expressing shock at their barbarity . . . they are only doing what allah loves best for "nothing is dearer to Allah than two drops and two marks: A drop of tears shed out of fear of Allah and a drop of blood shed in Allah's way".
 
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