tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870143465614132758.post6950304055599892671..comments2023-06-25T04:43:54.742-07:00Comments on Test5 testing: Cameron's Conservatives "get" the modern world, apparentlyPaul Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525444717679391831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870143465614132758.post-66982132922005290062007-06-20T02:37:00.000-07:002007-06-20T02:37:00.000-07:00Lol!Lol!Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525444717679391831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870143465614132758.post-27870108172721083202007-06-20T02:07:00.000-07:002007-06-20T02:07:00.000-07:00Forgive me Paul for I have sinned. I take it all b...Forgive me Paul for I have sinned. I take it all back. You’re not 3,000 years out of date. Just 2,000 years out of date. A thoroughly modern man!Laurence Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838530535994771528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870143465614132758.post-53639004771520163462007-06-20T01:10:00.000-07:002007-06-20T01:10:00.000-07:00Bless you Laurence, you are such a sweetie. Yes, I...Bless you Laurence, you are such a sweetie. Yes, I read these comments when you first made them on ID'sD in the comments string about Jerry Falwell. As I made clear on a string about gay adoption, I am a whole-hearted and vocal supporter of Rev Jeffrey John. Indeed, I wrote leters in support of him to become Bishop of Reading including ones published in the Daily Telegraph and the Newbury Weekly News.<br><br>"Modern Christians" are not the first people to see the specific regulations in Leviticus as appropriate for a struggling exiled tribe 3,000 years ago but not relevant today.<br><br>I eat pork, shellfish, game and rabbit. I don't give burnt offerings. I don't sprinkle blood on teh altar of my local church. I touch unclean meat. I eat the fat of cattle and sheep. I eat the blood of animals (black pudding - occasionally). I am not circumcised and my son wasn't circumcised after eight days or at all. I didn't give a burnt offering of a lamb and a dove for my daughter. I don't go to my priest when I have a rash. I don't follow the regulations about mildew in Leviticus. I cut the hair on the sides of my head.<br><br>I am sure you are very surprised by all these things. I am a total sham and a hypocrite aren't I?<br><br>Well done Laurence!Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525444717679391831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870143465614132758.post-65635834873676388872007-06-19T14:32:00.000-07:002007-06-19T14:32:00.000-07:00This is from the party where 54 per cent of MPs su...<i>This is from the party where 54 per cent of MPs surveyed disagree that gay couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples.</i><br><br>This is from the guy who calls himself an <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6293115.stm" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Anglican</a>. From the guy who puts the Bible at the top of his list of favourite books.<br><br>“If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”<br><br>It’s hardly surprising that modern Christians prefer to gloss over texts like this. More a case of the <i>hate</i> that dare not speak its name, don’t you think?Laurence Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838530535994771528noreply@blogger.com