(1558) Getting on for evening, all.

 

23. True

22. Bad people

21. How to kill off your denomination

20. Steve at 1030 … war room

• Mike Davis: “Lets Have The House Open An Impeachment Inquiry Into Judge Boasberg”
• President Trump Honors Wounded Veterans In Oval Office
• John Lott: DNI Releases Secret Biden Plan Raising Serious Civil Liberties Concerns
• Michael Patrick Leahy: Migrant At Center Of El Salvador Deportation Found To Be Linked To TN Human Trafficking Bust

19. Yuri predicted the incompetent insanity

18. Steve at 1030:2

That old expression “you can lead a horse to water” savagely applies with the Easter or Resurrection message. It’s far easier to go with the cultural Christianity nominally underpinning the west … that’s if you have a brain and give credit where it’s due … than it is to go any further.

“Hearts of Oak: Fr Calvin Robinson. The Cross and the Culture”

I was never crazy about the whole GB News, Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox, Calvin thing, the fallout, Calvin zipping off to the US to live. However, Hearts of Oak had him as a guest, he’s a good host, Steve decided to run him today, one week after the interview coming up the day before Good Friday.

And I’m glad Steve did, as Calvin acquits himself well, especially just past the 12 minute mark when he gets to the question of how the mob, the crowd (see Milgram) not just goes along with the chanting, baying mob but how they turn away from a deeply unpleasant topic before their eyes.

I have a huge problem with baying mobs, e.g. the karen thuggerati during the plandemic and as for the refusal to see realities … well, some people just can’t. There it is.

Which is why I do not push like an Ian Paisley. It’s not to placate the various denominations who kindly visit this site, even feel part of it … the Catholics, Orthodox, High Anglicans, low CofE, Methodists, Pentecostals (any I’ve left out?) … nor is it to appease the Dearieme and the “man can do anything he likes” humanist mindset, nor the “tech is god” lot either.

It’s that original saying above about leading a horse to water. Anytime some issue needs addressing, any time a good interview comes up … why not? There are also simple questions not concerned with dates, times, physical details, plus it concerns me when the faithful try to “prove” something which relies, in the final analysis, on choice and faith in that choice. Proof dispenses with faith.

The single most telling point for me is why such a strong Christology arose so quickly afterwards and far from dying with its adherents, it developed more strongly, against quite barbarous treatment … now this is a more political thought from me. Yes, people get hooked by cults … Manson, Hitler, there is even a cult of Donny … but this was quite something else.

There was some reason, Life of Brian notwithstanding, some truism, some element of “rings true” within the first twenty years after the crucifixion, which acted to hardwire people, when the cult leader was no longer there.

So, interesting interview, via Steve.