The Master put it oh so well, in my view...when He declared - as part of the new manifesto of His spiritual kingdom that - alongside Himself - had just then arrived (upon Planet Earth):
**"...with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you..." (Matthew 7:2.)
And so it should come as no surprise to anyone when I simply state the blimin' obvious: that we live in a day and age when the zealous ***thought-police are busily straining for gnats while simultaneously swallowing camels...-and that the very intensity and zealotry of their efforts is in inverse proportion to their related blindness in detecting the clear and present behemoth bestriding this temporal turf...
And so this blogpost is my response to two items 'in the news'/covered off by media over recent weeks - one upon the BBC World News, the other upon a New Zealand broadcaster - and tied together because they serve as lightning rod examples of the curious double-standards of modern-day mainstream media, at least in the secular West...
My notes being all over the place and otherwise not easily accessible at present, I will continue this tomorrow, but suffice to say - for now - the former (BBC-reported item) involved an American meteorologist dismissed for allegedly using some racist or other unsuitable epithet on public media - despite the evidence evidently lacking when push came to shove...the other/latter the way in which even the most basic, fundamental Christian sensibilities are routinely devalued and trivialized by trendy media pundits who would react with abject horror and outrage were the same sort of terms used in regards to the Muslim religion in particular...
...the connection between the two - fully accepting and acknowledging that my rather convoluted way of expressing myself may at times confuse folks - being they both revolve around contentious words.
Yes, To Be Continued (Very Soon)...
January 22:
Heartfelt apologies for taking so long to get back to this...and unfortunately you will have to go on waiting a little longer still...for matters of the utmost importance need to be dealt with today asap...
January 25: Ditto (with knobs on)...cf my latest (thus far extremely truncated) one upon our Justice Minister's recent international foray into bad-mouthing our great nation of God's Own...
*Isaiah 29:21, The Holy Bible.
**Scripture taken from the New King James Version. (c) 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
***To make even the likes of George Orwell's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World look like primers for mere amateurs...
**"...with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you..." (Matthew 7:2.)
And so it should come as no surprise to anyone when I simply state the blimin' obvious: that we live in a day and age when the zealous ***thought-police are busily straining for gnats while simultaneously swallowing camels...-and that the very intensity and zealotry of their efforts is in inverse proportion to their related blindness in detecting the clear and present behemoth bestriding this temporal turf...
And so this blogpost is my response to two items 'in the news'/covered off by media over recent weeks - one upon the BBC World News, the other upon a New Zealand broadcaster - and tied together because they serve as lightning rod examples of the curious double-standards of modern-day mainstream media, at least in the secular West...
My notes being all over the place and otherwise not easily accessible at present, I will continue this tomorrow, but suffice to say - for now - the former (BBC-reported item) involved an American meteorologist dismissed for allegedly using some racist or other unsuitable epithet on public media - despite the evidence evidently lacking when push came to shove...the other/latter the way in which even the most basic, fundamental Christian sensibilities are routinely devalued and trivialized by trendy media pundits who would react with abject horror and outrage were the same sort of terms used in regards to the Muslim religion in particular...
...the connection between the two - fully accepting and acknowledging that my rather convoluted way of expressing myself may at times confuse folks - being they both revolve around contentious words.
Yes, To Be Continued (Very Soon)...
January 22:
Heartfelt apologies for taking so long to get back to this...and unfortunately you will have to go on waiting a little longer still...for matters of the utmost importance need to be dealt with today asap...
January 25: Ditto (with knobs on)...cf my latest (thus far extremely truncated) one upon our Justice Minister's recent international foray into bad-mouthing our great nation of God's Own...
*Isaiah 29:21, The Holy Bible.
**Scripture taken from the New King James Version. (c) 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
***To make even the likes of George Orwell's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World look like primers for mere amateurs...
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