This Easter, the message of hope, renewal, and resurrection stands in direct contradiction to the world being built around us.
Sigh.
The ideological roots of this agenda lie in neoliberal economics, shaped by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and actively promoted today by organisations such as the Atlas Network and the Tufton Street network of think tanks. Their programme deliberately weakens social cohesion, normalises inequality and insecurity, and strips public services to the bone. The Tory government between 2010 and 2024 put this into practice as a matter of deliberate policy and Labour has done precious little to reverse it.
UK govt currently spends 45% of everything. Stripped to the bone. All on instructions from St Milt and Uncle Freddy.
Sigh.
And of course the theology is wrong too:
Easter’s core command is not complicated: love your neighbour as yourself.
No, it’s about Jesus, sacrifice, not this world but the next and so on.
Murphy become a Muslim in 3, 2,1…
That would be fun.
On Monday he would announce his conversion.
On Tuesday he would claim to be an expert.
On Wednesday he would fall out with the real experts
On Thursday he would claim to have invented the whole thing
He would not make it until Friday.
The Murphattolah already sees himself as a prophet. From that, it is a relatively small step to seeing himself as the Mahdi…
The reason that Space Aliens don’t visit us is that the last time one came we nailed him to a cross. The resurrection was a case of his chums rescuing him so that they could all flee to somewhere safer.
Dead easy, this theology stuff, eh?
A bit like F-15 crew, then.
Their programme deliberately weakens social cohesion, normalises inequality and insecurity,
Or, just possibly mind you, importing 10 million Africans and Asians since 1997 has damaged our country and not some fictional cuts to state spending…
The gospel of St Spud the Egregious. Just what we needed.
Spud is beside himself today because some people are . . . happy.
Probably also his doctor has told him he can’t eat chocolate.
Easter is spring equinox. When you gets the results of last year’s shagging.
“Love your enemies,” in the Sermon on the Mount, really was a revolutionary proposition. Sadly, I cannot manage to extend it to Spud.
Rest assured he doesn’t extend it to you.
I thought Il Papa don’t preach.
Sorry this is O/T, but having watched the news that the Krauts are going to decide if men between the ages of 17 and 45 will be allowed to go abroad for 3 months or more, a thought entered my swede…..
In the UK we should introduce a law that says any UK ‘National’ between the ages of 17 and 45 may be called up for national service to protect UK interests.
Anyone refusing to do so will be banned from accessing any government benefit……
It’d be interesting to see how many decide to ‘go home’ rather than support the country of their birth.
Freedom to trade with your neighbour does not weaken social cohesion; it strengthens it by fostering relationships built on trust, mutual benefit, and voluntary cooperation.
Through everyday exchanges of goods, services, and skills, individuals become more connected and interdependent by choice rather than obligation, turning neighbours into partners rather than mere bystanders. Spud is a tool.
You’re describing co-operation. Spud is all about collectivist coercion.
Mate, that comment sounds like its’ AI generated.
We have imported millions of people from low trust high crime inherently corrupt countries and we see the results every single day.
As the packet of lard said,” expecting muslims to come to the UK and stop behaving like muslims is not the actions of a free society”.
“Through everyday exchanges of goods, services, and skills, individuals become more connected and interdependent by choice rather than obligation”
That might be the case if the ‘exchanges of goods and services’ flowed equally in each direction. When they flow in one direction only, ie one side provides all the goods and the other all the services, then there is a definite imbalance of power in the relationship, because some goods are far more important for human survival than others, and most goods are more necessary than most services. If you have outsourced your food and energy supply to someone else, and instead are providing them with lots of ‘high value’ services instead, guess who has the whip hand when the sh*t hits the fan? They can probably do without insurance or design services for a reasonable while, you can’t manage for long without food and power. How obligated are you to your trading partner when you need his food more than he needs your computer games?
Quite. Look at what people forgo when forced to economise. It’s the nice stuff.
Some women, however, will forgo food to pay for lipstick…
They hope that the lipstick will get them more dinners than they had to forgo to buy it.
That may be the case, but such is the nature of our hierarchy of needs I suppose.
One alternative would be for a government to assign roles to citizens to avoid this imbalance of power, but I after seeing the effects of similar in North Korea I have little hope for it.
You are reminding me of the present fuss over the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz!!
So you’re saying he is of some use.
(thought I’d try C4 journo technique)
That worked well between about 1815 and 1914….
Easter’s core command is not complicated: love your neighbour as yourself.
Unless he earns more than you or behaves in a fashion of which you dont approve…
Or he’s Jewish of course.
Or that he didn’t really die.
“Their programme deliberately weakens social cohesion”
No, that’s been the “progressive” movement from the ’60s with their “how *DARE* “the system” tell me what to do!” throwing over all the structures that had built social cohesion and putting nothing in their place, and then wondering why there’s no social cohesion.
About this social cohesion, the problem goes back a very long way and was caused in no small part by the likes of Spud and other lefties.
When workers and later their close and extended were brought over to work in the mills anyone suggesting that they should learn English was dismissed as racist.
Councils and government institutions spent a fortune producing documents in just about every language under the sun. Interpreters were provided where necessary, another great expense.
And then the left and organisations like the BBC started acting like the old colonialists and instead of insisting that immigrant communities take up their grievances through the normal channels, local councillors and MPs, the BBC especially always turned to “community leaders” as our colonialist forebears did.
This encouraged immigrant communities to turn to the gobbiest person around and they were deemed to represent the whole community, how racists is that?
Immigrant communities started running their own schools and reenforcing my
misogyny and there were still no reason for a large section to even bather learning English, especially women. But of course it was racist to point this out.
Now of course those communities are marginalised and deemed poor but it’s the right’s fault, not the fault of those who insisted they didn’t need to learn English, integrate and use the existing institutions.
So Spud can fuck off, the likes of him are the root cause of this problem and judging by the way the Greens played the sectarianism card at the Denton by-election its only going to get worse.
And then we find the Polish who stayed here after the war integrated so well that you would have no idea they were Polish other than by their surnames, that they can burst into a funny language, and eat gefilte fish. Funny that.
I’ve never seen them eat gefilte fish – probably because the ones I knew weren’t Jewish.
In Poland, gefilte fish is referred to as karp po żydowsku (“carp Jewish-style”).
Quite a few PoWs also integrated as well.
There’s quite a few groups who have integrated very well – I don’t remember those expelled by Idi Amin getting any particular special treatment or causing any problems.
I’d say Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has caused quite a few problems, ungrateful cow that she is.
Jim, good point, but she’s Muslim heritage, whereas most of the Ugandan Indians are Hindu. Different cultures, I guess.
Good Lord, I’ve just read about her niece. Do a quick Google on Farah Damji and see what sort of family Yasmin came from.
Farah Damji, what a busy person! Not just low trust…zero trust.
How sensible of the Irish to deport her back to the UK.
Most of it is about whether the person comes from a reasonably advanced country, or strata of that country. It’s not about country or even religion, it’s about whether they have a more liberal, industrial mindset or a tribal one.
The Ugandan Asians were business people, they were well-educated, skilled. They fitted in fine. Most of Uganda wouldn’t as they were tribal peasant farmers.
The POWs were from Germany and Italy, which, depending on which parts, were not that different to Britain. Bedford is full of Italians who came over after the war to make bricks. Skilled people in making bricks.
Pakistan is mostly a poor country with a lot of tribal thinking to it, but there’s also a skilled class in the cities like Lahore. Those people come to the UK, they are culturally attuned. They fit in fine. The problem is the others that we have imported. Low skilled people, often someone’s cousin who is “a specialist chef” from some rural place, and they still have a tribal peasant mindset.
And these skilled Pakistanis are muslims, but that’s a mistake to use as a label, I think. There are degrees of religious craziness, and it’s mostly about how industrial a country or society is. Turkey is about 98% Islamic, but they’re like village church Islam. More of a cultural thing, rather than Slaughter the Infidels.
If you import skilled people (based on earnings), there won’t be much of a problem.
It’s also why I am in favour of leaving the UN refugee convention. Knuckle draggers from Somalia can go find a country next door where they’ll fit in.
This Easter, the message of hope, renewal, and resurrection stands in direct contradiction to the world being built around us.
Candidly, everything was fine in the world of 33 AD.
Easter’s core command is not complicated: love your neighbour as yourself.
No, it’s about Jesus, sacrifice, not this world but the next and so on.
I say unto thee, you are both wrong.
Good Friday is when we remember his death.
On Easter Sunday we celebrate that he is risen.
How do you suppose our Lord felt when he opened his eyes in the crypt, his body whole and alive again after the suffering and humiliation of his crucifixion? I’m no theologian as you know, but I’m guessing he felt great.
This is not a day of commands, or sacrifices, we’re past those at Easter. The commands were given, the sacrifice made. This is the day of the Good News. The tomb is empty, the Devil lost. Death is nothing. Easter is not a fast day, it is the greatest of all feast days. We, the living, should rightly eat viands and be merry. Chin-chin x
The probability of being alive on a Sunday while being dead two days earlier is zero. If we say it’s non-zero we also give credence to the words of the Koran being transmitted to the Prophet by the Angel Gabriel and any other suspensions of reason you care for. Some followers of said Prophet (pbuh) say he invented air travel in his seventh century night flight over Jerusalem. Believing that is bullshit is only consistent if you think the supernatural shit in the New Testament is too.
We say that apostasy should be permitted, that cousin marriage is bad, and blasphemy should not be punishable because we are rational enquiring tolerant people who’ve worked it out after centuries of slaughter. I can’t see an all good and powerful God in those centuries.
Most of the religious wars in Europe were about people wanting to nick each other’s land and get richer, have larger ruffs and more bling and get some top medieval babes. Religion is an excuse. Sects of religious were about the banner a tribe wore to justify their actions. Everyone committing murder and theft feels a lot happier about it if they have an excuse for their immoral actions. If you split off from a church and create your own church with your own priests (e.g. Henry VIII) you can now say that the other church is full of heretics and so you can plunder monasteries. “Not me, guv, God told me to do it”. It’s what people don’t understand about ISIS. They aren’t doing what they are doing for religious reasons. They just want bitches and Benjamins.
It’s a completely different thing from theology. Of course rising from the dead is non-zero probability in human life. But religion goes beyond human life.
If Murphy really wanted to disavow what he calls fascism he would come off Twitter/X and feise all earnings on uYu e. But the man who appeared on Press TV and regularly on Alex Salmon’s RT show, well that man doesn’t turn down any paying gig.
I keep saying, its a graft. He’s go anywhere and do anything to get some £££ in. He just concentrates on the Left because I assume thats where he feels most at home. And there’s more money in being the Leftist philosopher king crying in the wilderness than being the right wing equivalent, mainly because the State and charity sectors are stuffed with Leftists who will throw money at people who tickle their ideological G spots. So he just roams around that space, far left gobshite for hire. Have mouth, will spout BS for £££.
There’s a much bigger market on the left. Go into a bookshop and look at the politics section and it’s nearly all lefties.