Category: Art, Culture (and Politics)
When Prophets Really Do Disagree
This is a supplementary article supporting my YouTube presentation. This first section was derived from my comment on this article in Prophecy Today. I was late to this party because I only found out ... Read More
The Imperative of Christian Involvement
This is the full length version of the two video series where I give a justification of political involvement with particular emphasis on the Christian community and Christian philosophy. Part 1 00:00... Read More
The Three Main Eschatological Views
In a recent talk I gave, I referenced the late Roger Price’s discussion of the three main eschatological views: premillenialism, amillenialism and postmillennialism. Regardless of whether you ag... Read More
Why America is Crying
Today I was listening to my friend tell a story about his Mother-in-law. She was a Columbian immigrant to the US who entered legally in the early 1970s. She had been abandoned with her two young c... Read More
Theonomy in Christian Ethics
Modern theonomy was primarily the work of two men, Rousas Rushdoony and Greg Bahnsen in applying Van Tillian thought to first the socio-political sphere and then more broadly.[1] Bahnsen was to refl... Read More
Epistemological Self Consciousness
After starting this journey by returning to study for a BD in 2006, MA in 2012 and then the PhD at the end of 2017, I finally graduated as Dr Macneil this week! My thesis is about what makes philosoph... Read More
Fake (but Peer-Reviewed) Academic Papers Published by Fake (but Famous) Journals
Professor Brown’s Confession I read an article this week which really got my attention. It was describing the “confession” of Patrick Brown, an academic who is a Co-Director of Breakthrough In... Read More
Fire and Fury – Maui: Climate Change, Arson, and Preparations for a 15-minute Smart City
This summer has not been the summer of love but the summer of wildfires, caused by “extreme weather conditions” which have then been blamed on “climate change” and by that we mean human-made c... Read More
Sexual Ideology, Child Trafficking and The Sound of Freedom
None of the ferocity of the attack, which I wrote about at length here on the ‘Sound of Freedom’ film by the mainstream media and entertainment publications has let up. In fact, the attacks have... Read More
The ‘Sound of Freedom’, QAnon, and the Protected Class of Minor Attracted Persons
“Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America” thus spake not Zarathustra but Charles Bramesco, a film and television critic living in Brooklyn who writes for the Guardian, a UK,... Read More
Richard Rorty’s Iconoclastic Deconstruction of Philosophy
One of my contentions in my PhD thesis (coming soon!) of modern philosophy as incoherent and arbitrary, lacking a reasonable defence, is not original. Indeed the essence of the postmodern critique w... Read More
What You Need To Know About The ‘Vaccine’ Before You Take It (Updated Sep 2022)
Please note, this is not intended as medical advice for you, I am not a doctor, but I am drawing your attention to the work of those who are doctors or certified and qualified medical professionals wh... Read More
The Offspring of Judas
I am not a Hebrew scholar and cannot say I have checked this claim, but biblical Hebrew apparently has no word for “coincidence”. It is now a well understood fact that an ethnic group... Read More
Jerking the wrap off….
News Update with Dr Rodney Howarde-Browne Just in case you have never seen this, it is the best news programme you are likely to see…. Highlights of this one are: 1:49 in – former assistan... Read More
“Japan drops all vaxxine (vaccine) mandates, places myocarditis warning on label” – Fact Checked
AUDIO VERSION AVAILABLE My wife is Japanese and frequently gets news items sent on from her Japanese friends. One came which had the headline “Japan drops all vaxxine mandates, places myocarditi... Read More
The Sad Farce of Omicron
Well, it is Christmas time, and this is the first small window of downtime I have before the 29th when I have to get stuff ready for the new year switchover at work, so it is time for an overdue blog ... Read More
You-Tube’s New Role as Censor
YouTube admits to removing over one million videos in the name of “keeping people safe” from COVID and over 10 million other videos in the first quarter of 2021. Hidden within the defence of this ... Read More
Censorship – The New Normal
As I have been around for over five decades on the planet now, I have had a lot of experiences such as marriage and divorce, children then no-children, friends committing suicide (me-trying, unsuccess... Read More
One Year On – Reflecting on America’s Frontline Doctors
The day was July 27, 2020, the setting was the steps of the Supreme Court building and there was gathered around 18 practicing physicians, some senior, some private practise and some ER room. This w... Read More
“Why it’s time to think differently about COVID” – the BBC
“Why it’s time to think differently about COVID” Thus spake the British Broadcasting Corporation (otherwise known as the world-famous BBC) in what can only be described as a complete reversa... Read MorePolitics, Church and State in the Post-Trump Era
My blog has been quiet this year because I have been working on what turned out to be a 45000 word study on Politics, Church and State caused by the “chaos” in the Christian world regardin... Read More
Systematic Fraud with Dominion Voting Machines in Michigan (for starters)
First off, imagine you are a political visionary and have worked for justice and equality and finally get into power through the democratic process after a popular uprising and the sheer force of the ... Read More
Why are there Scots (including the Irish) all over the world? – A Short History of Scotland in 805 words
Why are there Scots (including the Irish) all over the world? – A Short History of Scotland in 805 words Growing up, one of the most memorable conversations I had with my Dad was when he told me... Read More
The Death of Amnesty International
Now I am not easily shocked these days, but something I read yesterday really did shock me. The CEO of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O’Gorman has signed an open letter published in Gay Communi... Read More
Dominion Theology – Its Origin, Development and Place in Christian Thinking
This was my Masters thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in Studies in Philosophy and Religion. This was marked at Distinction level and my supervisor recommended I publish it. This is primarily a ... Read MoreMy COVID-19 Thesis
The major purpose of this dissertation is to help you to be free of the fear of COVID, a fear that has been established and built by a worldwide assault by governments, transnational agencies like the... Read More
When Truth Does Not Matter – The “New Normal” according to COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus
“The government said evidence suggests that when used correctly, face coverings may reduce the chance of infecting others” Estimated 9 minute read Tomorrow is a significant day in the UK and in va... Read More
Is the Church a Vestigial Organ?
On the role of churches during the COVID-19 crisis. A quaint relic of a bygone age Estimated 11 minute read In evolutionary theory a “vestigial organ” is said to be a vestige, an artefact, a relic... Read More
What Google and Apple are cooking up (and it is not dessert) – rebaked version
I decided to add substantially to this piece as there were significant developments during the week and to respond to some of the criticism. Steve Jobs is now turning in his grave Estimated 12 minute ... Read More
Just because I do not agree with you does not mean I hate you
This was a personal reflection on gender fluidity growing up in the “sexual revolution” in the Left during the 1980s and 1990s and how the “tolerance” once experienced in the &... Read More
Object lesson for the politician — do not forget to remember those who voted you in, they will always matter
Arrogant British politicians and their fellow-travelers finally get a smack in the mouth from their electorate. Yesterday was General Election day in the United Kingdom, our third major election in 5 ... Read More
Am I That Illiberal?
You know, I can understand that my own opinions might appear reactionary and that people may wish to ferociously argue with me — perhaps even during the course of the argument slip in the odd “big... Read More
Another Truth about Late-Term Abortion
This was an answer on Medium to the well known feminist writer Jessica Valenti who had written a piece, “the truth about late-term abortion“. In my view, and I believe in the view of any s... Read More
Vive La France — death rolls of the socialist paradise which is the EU
“Death Rolls of the EU” – I originally wrote this as a development of a provocative answer in response to the question commented on here which I thought was an excellent answer to a ... Read More
Why Be Civil – in Modern Political Discourse?
Originally entitled, “Why Be Civil? A lesson for the Midterms — from a Scotsman” A reflection on the rejection of civility by one-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the A... Read More
The Right Way
Previously I wrote a lengthy piece where I mentioned that “living together” was a train-wreck waiting to happen, sometimes around the first bend, sometimes 15 years later. Abandoned and shredded p... Read More
What Kavanaugh Showed A Brit
This was a view from the British side of the Atlantic into the hearings into Judge Kavanaugh’s fitness to be a US Supreme Court judge. It is an exposition of the principle established in 1215 in... Read More
It Is Not Just About Abortion
This, without doubt, proved to be the most controversial article I had written and caused considerable unintended hurt and upset, which I truly wish had been avoided by being more careful to anonymise... Read More
Why the medical termination of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans against their parent’s wishes are the inevitable outcomes of European culture – a British citizen’s view
The case of baby Alfie Evans was in the news yesterday (Friday 20th April 2018) with the judgment from the British Supreme court to support the hospital’s refusal to release Alfie to his parent’s ... Read More
Abraham Kuyper, Culture and Art
Abraham Kuyper [1] (b.1837, d.1920) was described in a recent publication ‘as one of those rare intellectuals who actually led a popular movement. He thought it not enough just to articulate a wor... Read More