The Event that Changed the Universe – Jesus Rides into Jerusalem
In relation to belief in God, the late Christopher Hitchens wrote: “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”, an aphorism that has become known as ‘Hitchens’ razor’. His point was that since assertions about God are unsupported by evidence, then those assertions can, and should, be …
How the world works, and how it could in the future
In the 29 March 2019 issue of the London Financial Times, an article on page 6 caught my eye. “OIL DEPENDENCY. US shale bonanza boosts support for Israel, says official”, ran the headline. “The US shale boom has made it possible for the Trump administration to take stronger positions in …
More Education needed at the UK’s Home Office
The Home Office is facing yet more questions about its attitude towards Christian asylum seekers amid claims it rejected another Iranian man’s application to move to Britain by telling him, ‘your belief in Jesus is half-hearted’. An Iranian Asylum seeker who had converted from Islam to Christianity had his application …
Educating Her Majesty’s Government
Recently an Iranian Muslim who had converted to Christianity was actually denied asylum in the UK because, according to the Home Office, his premise was wrong. The asylum seeker claimed that he had converted to Christianity because it is a religion of peace, whereas Islam is not. As he put …
New Zealand denies that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are divine?
A week after 50 Muslims were murdered in mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand came together on Friday to observe the Muslim call to prayer, which was sounded around the country — including on national radio and television — before ceremonies were attended by tens of thousands of people who paid …
Islamophobia – A Very Problematic Definition
The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published its report, ‘Report on the inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia / anti-Muslim hatred’ [1], in which it defined and attempted to explain and justify its definition of Islamophobia. Their definition is: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a …
Saying ‘Jesus is the Son of God’: is that mockery of Islam?
Do Muslims find even basic expressions of Christian faith to be “provocative,” and therefore worthy of a violent attack by Muslims against Christians? If so, what should the Christian and righteous response be? Muslims in a Ugandan town accused the Christians of mocking Islam by publicly saying Jesus was the …
No other Gods
At the most recent Chinese Party Congress in 2017, religion was once again declared the enemy of Communism. Since then the Chinese Communist Party has ramped up its persecution of both Christians and Muslims. Muslims in north west China are being held in internment camps and are being ‘re-educated’, a …
Will Pakistani Christians in Thailand be given asylum as Rahaf has been?
One Saudi teen wins her freedom 2,500 Pakistani Christians stuck in Thailand still do not have theirs A Saudi woman who fled her family and became stranded at Bangkok’s main airport has flown to Canada after being granted asylum status. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had been trying to reach Australia via …
Who do men say that Jesus is?
The Cambridge-educated English writer and comedian Stephen Fry said this about God, live on television: “Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world so full of injustice and pain?” Given that the Bible asserts that all Creation came into being through Christ, then if the …
