Wisdom
No comment department. Speaks for itself department. Christian Voice.
“It was a bad day when they let homosexuals in the Armed Forces. People there do not want to be objects of sexual attention from blokes they are sharing a trench or tent with.” He added: “It was an even worse day when they let women on the front line. They should be in the home. The man should be the leader in the family and the woman should be the daughter or wife under the authority of her father and then her husband.”
Yup. Men like you – they should be the authority. Yup.
“We would like to reach out to Muslims and tell them they cannot find salvation in a dead Prophet.”
Right, because Christians have dibs on finding salvation in dead prophets.
(Okay so I commented a little.)
That was a riot:-)
Connecting with your comments in ‘I Believe Because They Believe and Vice Versa’, I see that the ‘Christian Voice’ website includes an article which notes that ‘[e]very English monarch since Alfred the Great has acknowledged Almighty God as sovereign over their realm, and every one since Edgar has been anointed by God to rule in the Name of Christ’ (http://tinyurl.com/6o2kv).
So what if they did/were?
Really. Big news flash – all the English monarchs have been avowed theists. No, really?! That’s especially fascinating because, as heads of the church ever since Henry VIII, obviously their day job has nothing at all to do with public religion, so it becomes quite an astonishing coincidence that every single one of them has not been an avowed atheist.
Hrm… Didn’t one Oliver Cromwell have a slight beef with this whole anointed-by-the-divine thing at some point in English history?
I’d also like to see what Christian Voice would make of the, well, somewhat violent “arguments” between Protestant and RC monarchs during the 16th century (Jane Grey, Mary Stuart and all). Which of them were _really_ anointed by God, and which were, well, just faking it?
M.
One of them was for real and all the others were evil demons!!
Merlijn – Well I’d like to see Christian Voice put in to the middle of a Cavalier – Roundhead battle, a really horrible one like Naseby in 1645. In the middle of the conflict, they could use their powers of pursuasion on both the Cavaliers and Roundheads, and win one or two converts, but mostly end up with their heads on poles. Go Roundheads. Go Cavaliers. Go poles.
I agree with the original author. Since when are the armed forces supposed to be enlightened institutions? They are barbarous by conception — kill people kill — and always will be. Better to work for a world in which armed forces are no longer necessary, than to put women and gays in the barracksk. At least in my opinion.