With further - *conscious - reflection overnight (27th-28th January) let me simply say that the real problem with what recently went down at the United Nations **'Human Rights Council' c/o ***'our' New Zealand delegation (as detailed in my last blogpost) was that in so doing they ****played right into the anti-Judaeo-Christian/Western playbook...
...whose doctrinaire adherents effectively ****played us for suckers...and then some...
*An odd adjectival conjunction, for sure...but as a big believer in the value of intuition, it's not illogical...
**A far more extreme adjectival conjunction/contradiction-in-terms, don't ya think? Unless, that is, you're among those folk who somehow consider New Zealand's human rights record is even remotely on the same page as that of Iran...which doubtless may indeed be true of a certain Iranian-born member of our Parliament, loathe as she'd ever be to admit as much (in polite company, anyhow)...
***They're certainly not my representatives, that's for sure...
****Admittedly some would - with reasonably good reasoning, to give 'em due credit - suggest much darker forces at work here behind the scenes. And whether one is a subscriber to conspiracy theories in general, or holds to only one or two pet favourites, there does indeed appear to be ever mounting and increasingly convincing -yes, evidence (even)- that there are entities and individuals 'waiting in the wings' whilst hidden furtively in the shadows... *****people whose basic agenda and modus operandi are anything but kind, peace-loving and essentially decent...
...arguably even determined to ultimately wreak havoc with and upon our long-established and cherished liberties and values...
...but who are well prepared to engage secrecy and stealth when it better suits their nefarious plans and purposes...
And all kudos to the gifted, Christ-honouring Bible teacher (I believe Egyptian-born) Dr Michael Youssef...who on his ******regular Leading the Way Television program yesterday morning cited a *******concerning/worrying development...
...to wit, that evidently now in the once great biblically-traversed nation of Greece it is a crime to use the prophet Mohammed's name with - supposed - disrespect (in any way, shape or form)...
'Goodness gracious', how would ye average, run-of-the-mill kiwi (or, for that matter, Western) agnostic/atheist/secularist cope these days...especially in light of the common, everyday - and no, not exactly flattering or honouring! - use of 'God', 'Christ', 'Jesus' (and the countless permutations thereof) in barely-veiled swearing and cursing and general exclamations (of pain and shock etc)?
But yes, I need to investigate further, as many would instantly suggest that Dr Youssef is undoubtedly exaggerating and greatly overstating the case - even were this generally true - and that, anyhow, it's all a matter of showing due respect for minority views and especially harassed religious groups.
Excuse me??? I can readily think of some religious groupings actively persecuted on an ongoing basis throughout the Middle East/Islamic ********'crescent' of the globe - just for example - and though they're certainly not all Bible-believers, Christians - and Jews - are among those most *********fiercely ill-used, abused, and otherwise treated like the utterly second-class citizens (indeed, arguably even non-citizens) they are categorized on the legal books of many such jurisdictions as being.
So please don't preach to me/us about respecting other folks' views, values and spiritualities...
*****Not being one of those who subscribes to the reptilian race earth-invaders' conspiracy theory!
******I'm presuming, though not a watcher on/in that particular day/time slot, and have only caught the odd mention thereof (during my own regular Sunday morning channel-hopping of various religious programming)...
*******Of all the seemingly endless catalogue of such concerns/'worries' now swamping the global airwaves and television sets seemingly each and every day...
********Thinking of the '10/40' global window of need/opportunity for hearing/receiving the good news, and using the Muslim symbol of a crescent (in contrast to the Christian cross).
*********But don't take it from this deeply impassioned opinion piece that I am either unaware of or not equally, nay, even far more outraged by what went on/'down' in the name of my own faith through the dreary darkness and deep depravity of the well-named 'Dark Ages'...whether to (at times) Muslims - who, however, generally 'gave as good as they got', in terms of violence and war, that is - or moreover to both Jews (in some of the most despicable outrages ever to deface the human race, and ultimately, and arguably almost inevitably, leading up to the logical final outcome thereof, i.e. in Hitler's/the Nazis' 'final solution'...or, for that matter, in the hunting down and destruction of what is now conservatively estimated as up to 150 million Bible-believing men, women and children... especially throughout the nations of Europe (both the former Eastern Europe and Western Europe so-called)...
...whose doctrinaire adherents effectively ****played us for suckers...and then some...
*An odd adjectival conjunction, for sure...but as a big believer in the value of intuition, it's not illogical...
**A far more extreme adjectival conjunction/contradiction-in-terms, don't ya think? Unless, that is, you're among those folk who somehow consider New Zealand's human rights record is even remotely on the same page as that of Iran...which doubtless may indeed be true of a certain Iranian-born member of our Parliament, loathe as she'd ever be to admit as much (in polite company, anyhow)...
***They're certainly not my representatives, that's for sure...
****Admittedly some would - with reasonably good reasoning, to give 'em due credit - suggest much darker forces at work here behind the scenes. And whether one is a subscriber to conspiracy theories in general, or holds to only one or two pet favourites, there does indeed appear to be ever mounting and increasingly convincing -yes, evidence (even)- that there are entities and individuals 'waiting in the wings' whilst hidden furtively in the shadows... *****people whose basic agenda and modus operandi are anything but kind, peace-loving and essentially decent...
...arguably even determined to ultimately wreak havoc with and upon our long-established and cherished liberties and values...
...but who are well prepared to engage secrecy and stealth when it better suits their nefarious plans and purposes...
And all kudos to the gifted, Christ-honouring Bible teacher (I believe Egyptian-born) Dr Michael Youssef...who on his ******regular Leading the Way Television program yesterday morning cited a *******concerning/worrying development...
...to wit, that evidently now in the once great biblically-traversed nation of Greece it is a crime to use the prophet Mohammed's name with - supposed - disrespect (in any way, shape or form)...
'Goodness gracious', how would ye average, run-of-the-mill kiwi (or, for that matter, Western) agnostic/atheist/secularist cope these days...especially in light of the common, everyday - and no, not exactly flattering or honouring! - use of 'God', 'Christ', 'Jesus' (and the countless permutations thereof) in barely-veiled swearing and cursing and general exclamations (of pain and shock etc)?
But yes, I need to investigate further, as many would instantly suggest that Dr Youssef is undoubtedly exaggerating and greatly overstating the case - even were this generally true - and that, anyhow, it's all a matter of showing due respect for minority views and especially harassed religious groups.
Excuse me??? I can readily think of some religious groupings actively persecuted on an ongoing basis throughout the Middle East/Islamic ********'crescent' of the globe - just for example - and though they're certainly not all Bible-believers, Christians - and Jews - are among those most *********fiercely ill-used, abused, and otherwise treated like the utterly second-class citizens (indeed, arguably even non-citizens) they are categorized on the legal books of many such jurisdictions as being.
So please don't preach to me/us about respecting other folks' views, values and spiritualities...
*****Not being one of those who subscribes to the reptilian race earth-invaders' conspiracy theory!
******I'm presuming, though not a watcher on/in that particular day/time slot, and have only caught the odd mention thereof (during my own regular Sunday morning channel-hopping of various religious programming)...
*******Of all the seemingly endless catalogue of such concerns/'worries' now swamping the global airwaves and television sets seemingly each and every day...
********Thinking of the '10/40' global window of need/opportunity for hearing/receiving the good news, and using the Muslim symbol of a crescent (in contrast to the Christian cross).
*********But don't take it from this deeply impassioned opinion piece that I am either unaware of or not equally, nay, even far more outraged by what went on/'down' in the name of my own faith through the dreary darkness and deep depravity of the well-named 'Dark Ages'...whether to (at times) Muslims - who, however, generally 'gave as good as they got', in terms of violence and war, that is - or moreover to both Jews (in some of the most despicable outrages ever to deface the human race, and ultimately, and arguably almost inevitably, leading up to the logical final outcome thereof, i.e. in Hitler's/the Nazis' 'final solution'...or, for that matter, in the hunting down and destruction of what is now conservatively estimated as up to 150 million Bible-believing men, women and children... especially throughout the nations of Europe (both the former Eastern Europe and Western Europe so-called)...
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