THIS EASTER TIME FIND OUT
WHAT THE BIBLICAL LUKE SAID
ABOUT PAUL(SAUL).
http://www.thenazareneway.com/The Gospel of Paul.
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AN
ANSWER TO DAVID
CAMERON'S
COLLECTIVIST VIEW OF
'THE
BIG SOCIETY'
WHICH REQUIRES
EVERYONE SERVE
ANOTHER BUT IF THIS
WERE TO HAPPEN SOON
THERE WOULD BE
PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE
UNABLE TO FIND
ANYONE TO SERVE AND
HUMANKIND WOULD BE
REDUCED TO SLAVES OF
THE STATE.
BETTER BY FAR THAT
THE INDIVIDUAL BY
BROTHERLY CONTACT
AND INCREASING
FRIENDSHIP WITH
OTHERS SPREAD THEIR
CHRISTIAN MESSAGE IN
GOOD WORKS IN THEIR
COMMUNITY.
'THE LESS
INTERFERENCE BY
GOVERNMENT WHICH IS
IN BEING TO SERVE
THE PEOPLE.
UNLESS A MAN THINKS
FOR HIMSELF AND
FEELS FOR HIMSELF
AND DETERMINES FOR
HIMSELF HE IS LESS
THAN HUMAN. IF
YOU TELL HIM THAT HE
OUGHT TO SERVE
SOCIETY, WORK FOR
THE BETTERMENT OF
CONDITIONS IN THE
FUTURE, IDENTIFY
HIMSELF WITH
PROGRESS; IN FACT IF
YOU TELL HIM THAT HE
OUGHT TO SACRIFICE
HIMSELF OR DEVOTE
HIMSELF TO ANYTHING,
AND THAT HIS
GOODNESS CONSISTS IN
THAT SELF-SACRIFICE.
LASTLY, THE
FALSENESS OF SOCIAL
MORALITY IS SHOWN BY
THE FACT THAT IT
INEVITABLY
SUBORDINATES HUMAN
BEINGS TO
ORGANISATION.
LIFE, IN THE
BIOLOGICAL SENSE, IS
ORGANIZATION; AND
EVOLUTION IS SIMPLY
THE GRADUAL
PRODUCTION OF MORE
AND MORE HIGHLY
ORGANISED TYPES OF
LIVING CREATURES. IF
YOU MAKE PROGRESS.
OR THE EVOLUTION OF
SOCIETY, THE GREAT
GOAL OF HUMAN
EFFORT, THEN YOU ARE
WORSHIPPING SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION. 'THE
MORE HIGHLY
ORGANIZED A SOCIETY
IS, THE BETTER IT
IS' _THAT IS WHAT
LURKS AT THE BACK OF
YOUR MIND.
THERE SEEMS TO BE NO
REASON FOR THINKING
SO> THE MORE
HIGHLY ORGANISED
SOCIETY IS, THE MORE
COMPLICATED IT IS,
THAT IS ALL.
WHY SHOULD IT BE
BETTER BECAUSE IT IS
MORE COMPLICATED?
IT SEEMS TO ME
RATHER THAT SOME
TYPES OF SOCIETY
,LIKE OUR OWN [1930
and 2014) ARE MUCH
TOO COMPLICATED TO
BE REALLY GOOD.
IT REALLY IS TIME
THAT WE STOPPED THIS
SILLY WORSHIP OF
COMPLICATED
ORGANIZATION. IT
DOESN'T MAKE HUMAN
LIFE BETTER, IT ONLY
MAKES IT MORE
DIFFICULT.
NOW SERVING SOCIETY
OR HUMANITY ALWAYS
MEANS IN PRACTICE
SERVING INSTITUTIONS
SERVING
THE STATE OR YOUR
BUSINESS OR YOUR
TRADE UNION
AND THE MORE YOU
SERVE INSTITUTIONS
THE MORE COMPLICATED
THEY BECOME, AND THE
MORE SERVICE THEY
DEMAND; TILL WE ALL
BECOME
SLAVES OF OUR JOBS.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
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by
STEPHEN
GLOVER
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TOLERATION
TOLERATION
'The toleration of all
religions is a law of nature, stamped on the hearts of all men .'
Voltaire
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Religious liberty,
according to both Locke and Montesquieu, may and does require intolerance of an
intolerant religion; and the very spirit of peace and gentleness may require war
to be waged by the state against an aggressive religion.
Conneily.
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Toleration is a good thing in its place; but you cannot
tolerate what will not tolerate you, and is trying to
cut your throat'
Froude.
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'There are those who believe something, and therefore
will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who
tolerate everything because they believe NOTHING.'
R
Browning.
[CAPS are ours.]
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'We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have
come up to our love of liberty, and men shall cordially
tolerate and earnest believers both at once.'
Phillip
Brooks.
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'The responsibility of
tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.-
George
Eliot.
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How It is possible to imagine that a religion breathing
the spirit of mercy and benevolence, teaching the
forgiveness of injuries, the exercise of charity, and
the return of good for evil, can be so perverted as to
breathe the spirit of slaughter and persecution, of
discord and vengence, for differences of opinion, is a
most unaccountable and extraordinary phenomenon.
Still more extraordinary that it should be a doctrine,
not of base and wicket men merely seeking to cover up
ther own misdeeds, but of good men, seeking the way to
salvation with uprightness of heart and purpose.
It affords a melancholy proof of the infirmity of human
judgment, and teaches a lesson of humility from which
spiritual zeal a moderating wisdom.-
Story.
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[David Cameron should
remember that good Christian works and deeds with greater support in LAW and
LEGISLATION and not glib statements of his stated CHRISTIAN FAITH which he
has yet to demonstrate with only one year away from a GENERAL ELECTION.]
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