(0830) Morning all … not well, am on skelton blogging just now … see how we go. (1049)
10. Looking for evey wrongheaded policy they can find
… those in charge of Starmer need not even look … just note the trends around the world under pressure from the peoples … and implement the opposite afap.
9. Hot around your way?
8. This “parliamentarian” thing
7. The leaking
What followed at Trump HQ was him saying it was a Dem. Was he just protecting Pete, who’d been careless? Who knows?
6. An ecumenical statement by JH
The previous and current versions of the blog describe me as “a private Christian”, which I suppose is open to interpretation. Perhaps a better way to put it is this:
Though Christened as a baby into the Church of England, making me, I suppose, something of a WASP, I’ve always had Catholic friends and in Russia … Orthodox. Naturally, also atheist, agnostic, even pagan and those following the other side. I was never “confirmed”, so my taking “communion” on rare occasions may have been denominationally naughty but fine in terms of the Word. The Word is the Word.
Blogging has added to that … Methodists, Baptists, Reformed, Pentecostal, Mormon, plus I know a few Illumined. Right now, I have a friend in Ireland, so I presume she’s Catholic. Now and then, one denomination or other puts on the hard word and frankly, I go quiet or run.
I’ve often said that this blog is not religious in itself, though Christian items do come up, not only in art and music. In Italy, I’d often wander into a church on the basis that they essentially accept the Trinity, plus there’ve been very saintly people over the millennia. My defence of Christianity, in the sense of Christians slaughtered, churches burnt down, is a political-religious mix … for example, I’m into women’s safety defence, into protecting our heritage and underpinnings.
Mixed view on “turn the other cheek”. With a more warrior mindset, yes … we should try to get along with all, personally, afap … but if that person or those people are clearly bent on harming us, the community, the nation … not the slightest compunction dealing with them summarily, if attacked. Anyone attacking an old person, for example … I’d try to disable, not nicely.
Rather than being of an “interfaith muddy soup” appeasing all factions, I’m for the Apostles Creed afa it can be authenticated … that’s a good mission statement … that’s my “denomination”. Each person of the Trinity deserves its own due. Conscience certainly exists in the trad western manner.
That’s as far as I go … pesky issues such as transsubstantiation and consubstantiation I don’t dwell on … He above knows, that’s good enough for me … any more would be presumptuous. As I wrote in my long saga … can we be saved? Answer … if we believe we can be. That’s where the blockage is for most. END.