tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post122803811168028143..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Atavistic Urges.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-54584466682198338582021-03-08T14:37:38.728+13:002021-03-08T14:37:38.728+13:00Proof is confined to the areas of mathematics and ...Proof is confined to the areas of mathematics and the law. But here is a fair bit of evidence.<br /><br /><br />https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2020.1749339<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/coronavirus-churches-outbreaks.html<br />https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-church-spec-idUSKBN21H0Q2<br />https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-church-idUSKBN25Z1MU<br />https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-exposes-evangelical-christianity-s-flaws-church-can-be-force-ncna1189946<br />https://www.france24.com/en/20200303-south-korea-seeks-criminal-charges-against-christian-sect-over-coronavirus-spread<br />https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/america-rightwing-christian-preachers-virus-hoaxGuerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-61785211740923771262021-03-08T09:26:24.337+13:002021-03-08T09:26:24.337+13:00Is that why Christian churches have done more to s...<i>Is that why Christian churches have done more to spread Covid 19 than pretty much any organisation on earth?</i><br /><br />Big statement, evidence please. Proof please. Nick Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12609312325425361413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-49666247488729722772021-03-06T16:29:29.979+13:002021-03-06T16:29:29.979+13:00Generalisations abound here. Individual souls an...Generalisations abound here. Individual souls and collective immunity - people can forego their individual scruples or ways under the influence of a wide and concentrated hegemony. But that can work both ways, and I thought that democracies were tilted to passing on good values throughout the society, and reducing the bad ones, like road kill numbers. But it has to be taught and modelled, practised and reinforced, and if there is insufficient of either then you get what we have now in NZ. Cherry-picking the ideas that suit the individual best, and not much attention to the soul with religions being deficient in this too is what I see, and so in reaction there is a similar disregard for relevance, fairness, examination, in each competing narrative.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-51010628348668710792021-03-06T09:02:34.750+13:002021-03-06T09:02:34.750+13:00"Christianity is a religion of personal respo..."Christianity is a religion of personal responsibility" A statement so well understood by the majority of Christians that it ought to go without staying, and yet today it needs to be repeated. The ability to take personal responsibility, and not to wallow in self defeating blame, victimhood and resentment is one of the defining factors that made Western Civilisation entirely more functional than the majority of its competitors. <br /><br />Sure, we are human, and historically Christians have behaved as badly as anyone else, and often still do today. However the inherit knowledge that we are individually responsible before God, not only for our own lives, but for those of our family, and importantly also for our neighbour is what makes a society imbued with the Christian faith so transformational. <br /><br />You cannot legislate for compassion or kindness, and reducing these virtues to political platitudes is a pointless absurdity. This is the weakness of socialism. It attempts to introduce the Kingdom of God through public policy, legislation and political persuasion. You cannot achieve through law what can only be born of the Spirit. Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-4059264637768703302021-03-05T17:59:02.351+13:002021-03-05T17:59:02.351+13:00"Christianity is a religion of personal respo..."Christianity is a religion of personal responsibility, you, not your tribe are responsible to God for your actions."<br />Is that why Christian churches have done more to spread Covid 19 than pretty much any organisation on earth? Perhaps you should start thinking a little more collectively.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72913572130521926162021-03-05T11:47:06.962+13:002021-03-05T11:47:06.962+13:00"To love one’s enemies is the counsel of perf..."To love one’s enemies is the counsel of perfection. Human-beings just aren’t that good at being “kind”<br />Christianity is a religion of personal responsibility, you, not your tribe are responsible to God for your actions.<br />Collectively, in the mob, we're transformed into a terrifying beast. There's no forgiveness or genuine compassion or accountability or bestowing of the gift of redemption, they arise, not in the collective but in individual hearts. Under the cover of the mob all hell can break loose. David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-60509731136838509292021-03-05T10:49:15.477+13:002021-03-05T10:49:15.477+13:00There is a saying, "dont set your children up...There is a saying, "dont set your children up to fail", in a sense how has the government allowed the environment where so few have been put unknowingly in a position to create so much havoc (I say unknowingly, if they were fully informed of the impact of their actions or policed to prevent their actions they would either do differently, or not have been able to do so). Pursue these people and you will martyr them, then try and get your vaccine roll out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04125273950735932772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-83101223492924084292021-03-05T09:43:13.650+13:002021-03-05T09:43:13.650+13:00The problem with retribution is all too often, the...The problem with retribution is all too often, the mob latches on to the wrong person. And they don't see reason. There was that pediatrician who had his house attached because the rabble thought he was a pedophile. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/182683<br />And recently Jacinda attacked Case L, when it was her own department at fault. There hasn't yet been an apology for this shocking case of bullying and mob incitement. <br />That risk of getting it wrong is why no matter what the situation, the leaders need to be very circumspect about what they say. And to be absolute sure of the facts. They are responsible for what they say. Chris Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557217407223228656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-44401060668819848442021-03-05T08:27:24.079+13:002021-03-05T08:27:24.079+13:00Jacinda presents the very opposite to "Dirty ...Jacinda presents the very opposite to "Dirty Politics"......people are still getting used to it. If the PM has to show some genuine icy frustration at the behaviour of some people's actions to get her message across then all power to her.Katnoreply@blogger.com