Yesterday (Oct 5th 2025) I went with a friend to the October 7th Memorial gathering in Trafalgar Square.
The event was about an hour and a half. Completely Jewish, so as a Christian one did feel a little out of place. There was a lot of prayer and some songs in Hebrew.
Much of the time was taken up with people who were survivors of October 7th or family of people who had been killed or taken hostage. On top of that was the presence of folk from Manchester. Watch prayers for Manchester ….
Several Jewish dignatories and even one lady who was a Holocaust survivor. All extremely moving and quite sombre. How anyone intelligent person can pretend that October 7th never happened is beyond me. Watch a Nova Festival survivor ..
What was lovely though was the absence of anger, just sorrow.
At one point we sang the National Anthem. These are people who are profoundly integrated into British society. After all their God is our God. It is a good time to be praying that they discover their Messiah!
Yesterday I had an unfortunate conversation with two young Moslem men. They were approaching a street performer who had just shared the gospel between songs and their opening comment was enough for me to need to step in and protect the performer.
Young men like this have been so indoctrinated that they simply hate the Jews. What on earth goes on in our local mosques and then online at home should deeply concern us all. The level of anger and vitriol spewing from their mouths was not new to me. I’ve heard it all before. But clearly their understanding of middle eastern history and geography is so skewed. Almost every line I started to say was greeted with grins and the response “free free Palestine”. After a few minutes it was obvious that this was not a discussion. They were so closed in their thinking that further interaction was pointless. BTW these weren’t migrants, they both had English accents.
Then this morning’s news of the attack on the Manchester Synagogue. Simply horrendous. But as a Jewish spokesman said on the radio, what can you do when people are motivated by the thinking of a desert dwelling tribal warlord from the Dark Ages?!
I would urge anyone reading this and disturbed by what I have said to go to an online Qur’an site and read the book for yourself. Try searching for words such as peace, kill, neck, jihad.
And if you aren’t a Christian, when you finished the Qur’an, try the New Testament and compare Mohammad to Jesus. You will be surprised.
Whether you like it or not there is no human solution to the Middle East problem, and currently the Gaza crisis, all the time Islam exists as an ideology!
That is the simple truth. Israel actually created the much lauded two state solution when they left Gaza in 2005. But the Arabs didn’t want it. Islam”ism” wants all Jews eradicated “from the river to the sea”. Islam”ism” is a genocidal philosophy. Islam”ism” will not stop until the whole world is a Califate and that doesn’t bear thinking about.
October 7th was a declaration of war, bur worst still and invitation to enter a war that could not be won.
Israel are trapped. If they withdraw now, Hamas will simply retake power, rebuild the tunnels with all the ill-conceived foreign aid that will flood in and while taking years to rebuild housing and infrastructure will begin as soon as it can to launch missiles into Israel once gain, glorying in their “victory” and worldwide adulation. The thousands of lives lost will have been in vain.
The suffering of the Arabs is down to Hamas. “Palestine”, indeed the Middle East, needs to be set free of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and every other proxy of Islamic regimes. The region needs democracy. Israel is currently the only real democracy where Arab and Jew, Moslem and Christian can live together as one nation. Gaza becoming part of Israel may indeed be the only solution.
Meanwhile this speech is brilliant. Ritchie Torres Warns Against Rising Antisemitism, Urges Support for Israel At AJC Global Forum -YouTube
As a P.S. – history should show us that all war is just a waste of human life and resources.
The Second World War achieved nothing but death and destruction. Millions dead and for what? Furthermore the scale of that makes Gaza pale into insignificance.
Currently the question is what philosophy will win? Capitalism? Communism? Islam?
We live in very strange and dangerous times. History is being systematically rewritten on a global scale. No longer is it just possible to make one nation believe lies, the internet has made it possible to influence the whole world.
Nothing stands out more clearly than the manipulation of the perception of the war between Israel and HAMAS. One side in the propaganda war would have us believe that October 7th never happened, that it was all Israeli propaganda. Of course similar train of thought would deny the Holocaust.
Make no mistake about it, HAMAS control all information getting to the western media.
What is happening in Gaza is entirely the fault of Iran and its literal interpretation of the teachings of the Qur’an. Mohammad was a tribal warlord who sort power through domination and conquest. They are simply following his example. Islam cannot countenance the existence of a people descended from Abraham even though the Qur’an itself acknowledges them ……..
And We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them in tyranny and enmity until, when drowning overtook him, he said, “I believe that there is no deity except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims.”
And We had certainty settled the Children of Israel in an agreeable settlement and provided them with good things. And they did not differ until [after] knowledge had come to them. Indeed, your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ.”
And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building.
If HAMAS had any compassion at all for its people they would surrender, release the hostages and agree to new elections. Iran won’t countenance that.
I cannot even begin to understand the evil mindset that would orchestrate October 7th fully knowing that if they hit the” bees nest” that hard, the swarm would come after them relentlessly! THEY KNEW.
They are that callous that they would martyr their fellow Gazans in order to turn the world against Israel and hopefully complete their long term objective of ridding Palestine of the Jews “from the river to the sea“.
It is almost impossible to see how Israel can bring an end to this conflict without completely occupying the Gaza Strip and systematically rooting out every member of HAMAS.
If Gazans were not a threat then by now Egypt would have allowed refugees to escape.
But no, their border wall is more impressive than Israel’s.
Displaced Palestinians walk next to the border fence between Gaza and Egypt, on February 16, 2024 in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. – Nearly 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are trapped in Rafah — more than half of Gaza’s populations — seeking shelter in a sprawling makeshift encampment near the Egyptian border. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
I finally decided to retire from working for FAITH Christian Group officially as from the end of May 2025.
It was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. Twenty years is a long time to be responsible for such an organisation. It becomes as much a part of you as you are of it.
One immediate benefit is finding more time to sit typing a post on one of my websites! But small comfort for knowing that no-one is going to be looking to me for direction or decisions!
It also just so happens that today is the anniversary of my marriage to Penny back in 1972.
Pride. What an interesting word! What a divisive word.
A parent can rightly be proud when their child achieves something or gets a good report. We can perhaps be rightly proud when we have done something good, or really well, exceled at something or improved in something.
The Bible refers to pride a lot. The Apostle Paul wrote to a group of Christians in Corinth, “I am acting with great boldness towards you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy. 2 Corinthians 7:4
But that is one of very few positive uses of the word in scripture.
Jesus himself said, “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” Mark 7:22
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
So it is a strange thing to Christians that the word PRIDE should have been adopted by people as a positive word. Indeed we see the words “Loud and Proud” neither of which sound great.
Sex should be a private matter, not ‘celebrated’ on the streets.
To the religious mind, whether that be Christian, Muslim or Jew for sure and probably Hindu, Buddhist and others, the idea of making much of one’s sexuality, especially making a public spectacle (celebration) of it is, well, at worst obscene and offensive, at best sad.
As Christians a major objection is that children are being exposed to adult themes and activities way before they should be. Thus the accusations of grooming in such things as Drag Queen Storytime. Recently, more so in the States than the U K Pride Parades have become an excuse for public nudity, general debauchery and in some cases blasphemy.
It is tempting to include photographs/video. I will refrain.
But please don’t try to tell met that this is all about liberation and freedom. It simply isn’t. Don’t confuse liberty with license.
“PRIDE” has become tantamount to a religion which you must believe in or be vilified and outcast. You have to wear the lanyard, or fly the flag, or use the rainbow crossing. Even the Police have succumbed to the wokery.
Lastly where does this stop. At first it was making homosexuality legal. Then it was pressure to recognise marriage other than between a man and a woman. Then came the flood (!) Transvestitism became a sexual preference, genders multiplied from nowhere, even to wanting to identify as a baby or an animal, dissatisfaction with the body one was born in became a desire to change it by mutilation. Now we are hearing a push to legalise polygamy and paedophilia.
Now, you may say that you identify with one of those things listed but not the others, yet proponents refer to a “community”. How can that be?
For a really good look at what Paul says about homosexuality go here …..
And remember what the rainbow truly stands for. It is a reminder that mankind was destroyed by a flood because of their sin ….. Genesis Chapter 6
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
After the flood …… Genesis Chapter 9
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
BTW – Note that the true rainbow has 7 colours – the number often associated with completeness and divinity.
The “pride” flag has 6 colours – the number in scripture related to man.
I am not an Orthodoox and know little of the symbolism. I’ve always viewed the various crosses as quaint or simply over elaborate and religious. I certainly didn’t know the last part …………
The short bar across the top is where they nailed the sign to Christ’s Cross which read “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS” (Luke 23:38). What was intended as an accusation and a mockery became instead a triumphant symbol that all nations would come under the reign of Jesus the King
The long middle bar of course is where Jesus’ hands were nailed into
The slanted bar at the bottom is the footrest of the crucifix. All crucifixes would have had these, as no one could be suspended from a cross by nails alone. The cruel death of a crucifixion was not brought about through blood loss, but by lack of oxygen: exhausted, the man is no longer able to stand straight upon the foot-rest, the body sags, and air can no longer be drawn in
The foot rest is slanted because it is believed in His final moments before Jesus gave up His spirit, His flesh spasmed and the foot-rest was kicked out of place. There is also symbolism to this
It points up from the right side and down on the left to show that the right hand thief in his last moments repented and Christ said that he would be with Him in paradise.
In the middle between two thieves, was Your Cross found as the balance-beam of righteousness; For while one was lead down to hell by the burden of his blaspheming, The other was lightened of his sins unto the knowledge of things divine.
One of the current battle grounds is around the freedom of belief. Am I free to believe whatever I want or am I constrained by what others believe?
We all know the issue surrounding the christian bakers who refused to produce an openly gay affirming cake. In the end their right not to produce something that offended them trumped the offense taken by the prospective customers, who were, when all said and done, trying to make a point .
So here’s another. Does a venue have the right to refuse prospective performers?
Before I say anything else I must emphasise that I see America as a highly divided society where, although in theory anyone can make something of their lives if they put effort into their education, etc. etc., in practice where you are born, your family situation and your racial heritage, whether caucasian, latino, first nation, asian or black plays a huge part in determining your life’s prospects.
The ripples of BLM are still with us and recent developments have only served to underscore my original thinking that the death of George Floyd was used to stir up racial hatred and violence. The riots and violence that ensued were quite disproportionate to the evnt that they puported to be demonstrating against. It was very much a blue touch paper moment.
However I strongly believe that the ensuing trial was predestined to find the officer guilty of murder, rather than accidental death, manslaughter, death by misadventure, or anyting else. He was in effect scape-goated for the societal sins of America.
This arrest was odd in that the officer’s used minimum violence as the full bodycam footage shows. But the knee on the neck undeniably inevitably caused his death. Throughout the officers are very calm and controlled. Even when they were sure he was dead. No shock. No surprise. It is very strange.
George has committed a crime. When approached by the officers he is, from the get go, clearly under the influence of something. His distressed attitude is bizarre. Also from the very start he resists arrest. Resists and resists and resists. The officers are heard trying to reason with him and treat him kindly and respectfully.
When first approached he is sitting in his own very small car. When they try to put him in the patrol car he complains that he is claustrophobic. He is highly agitated, won’t simply sit down. It is at this point that he starts to complain that he can’t breathe. Now is that an anxiety attack, the effect of the cocktail of drugs in his system, or something else?
He climbs right through the patrol car and out into the road. The officers try to get him back in the car for the second time and in the end give up and get him face down onto the ground. Again he starts “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe“. No knee,no real restraint. He already has a breathing problem.
He starts calling “Mumma“, then says,”my stomach hurts, my neck hurts”. After a couple of minutes he quietens down. It is at this point that out of camera shot one assumes that the officer has his knee on George’s throat. Bystanders are haranging the officers and at least once suggest that George can’t breathe, has stopped resisting arrest, one is heard to say get him up.
