The signatories of a letter accusing David Cameron of ‘fostering alienation and division in our society’ by maintaining that Britain is a Christian country have all turned out to be signed-up atheists.
Research carried out by Christian Voice has revealed that every single one of the fifty-five signatories is a ‘Distinguished Supporter‘ of the British Humanist Association (BHA). Many are also an ‘Honorary Associate‘ of the National Secular Society (NSS), and a couple are involved with the so-called Rationalist Association.
Nowhere in their letter to the Daily Telegraph do they acknowledge that they are all BHA supporters or that the letter was organised by the BHA. The BHA admit on their website that their president organised it, but do not disclose that every signatory was already in their go-to bag, merely describing them as ‘public figures’. Even more worrying, no mainstream media picked up on that fact either.
The Daily Telegraph described the signatories as ’55 public figures from a range of political backgrounds’. Er, no, they aren’t. They are all atheists. The Guardian sycophantically referred to them as ‘more than 50 prominent public figures including novelists, diplomats, Nobel prize winners and playwrights.’ The Independent described them as ‘an alliance of public figures including scientists, novelists and politicians.‘ The BBC described them as ‘a group of public figures’ rather than the more accurate: ‘a group of atheist time-servers taking themselves too seriously.’
Why was that? Plainly the omission of any reference to the British Humanist Association and the corresponding ability of the organisation to drum up so many distinguished-sounding names so quickly while keeping itself in the background gave the letter its only possible credibility.
Here are the signatories (BHA supporters Sir Jonathan Miller and Richard Dawkins and a few others have since added their names):
Professor Jim Al-Khalil: BHA Distinguished Supporter and President, Theoretical physicist, Professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey, author and broadcaster.
Philip Pullman: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, atheist, author from Norwich, author of the trilogy His Dark Materials. Once said, ‘I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.’
Tim Minchin: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Australian musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian. Appeared in various TV shows.
Dr Simon Singh: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Science Writer, TV Director and Producer for BBC, lecturer, honorary associate of the Rationalist Association.
Ken Follett: BHA Honorary Member and BHA Distinguished Supporter. Parents are born-again Christians but rejected Christianity himself after becoming disillusioned. Writer and journalist.
Dr Adam Rutherford: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Science writer, editor, broadcaster.
Sir John Sulston: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Scientist, Nobel Prize winner, scientist father was an Anglican priest, brought up a Christian but lost faith as a teenager.
Sir David Smith: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Botanist, lecturer, campaigned against expansion of religious maintained schools.
Professor Jonathan Glover: BHA Distinguished Supporter, philosopher, writer of books on ethics.
Professor Anthony Grayling: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Master of New College of the Humanities, writer, philosopher, campaigns for euthanasia.
Nick Ross: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Journalist, TV Presenter known for presenting Crimewatch, Chair of Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science, Chair of Crimewatch.
Virginia Ironside: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Abortionist, writer, past agony aunt for the Daily Mirror but now writes a column for the Oldie.
Professor Steven Rose: BHA Distinguished Supporter, scientist, writer, born to Jewish parents.
Natalie Haynes: BHA Distinguished Supporter, comedienne, writer, human rights supporter. Writer of An Atheists Guide to Christmas.
Peter Tatchell: BHA Distinguished Supporter, homosexual, human rights campaigner, atheist, gay rights campaigner, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, contributor to paedophile book Betrayal of Youth.
Professor Raymond Tallis: BHA Distinguished Supporter, physician, philosopher, author, poet, favours assisted dying.
Dr Iolo ap Gwynn: BHA Distinguished Supporter, scientist, mountaineer, atheist and interested in the natural world.
Stephen Volk: BHA Distinguished Supporter, supernatural screenwriter, author, spiritualism researcher, interested in parapsychology.
Professor Steve Jones: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, professor of genetics, science writer, broadcaster, outspoken against creationism.
Sir Terry Pratchett: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, believer in euthanasia, fantasy fiction author, satirist. Raises awareness of dementia.
Dr Evan Harris: NSS Honorary Associate, ex-MP, supporter of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality.
Dr Richard Bartle: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Professor of Computer Game Design at the University of Essex.
Sian Berry: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Green Party member and campaigner, politician, author, supporter of atheist bus campaign, contributor to The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas.
C J De Mooi: BHA Distinguished Supporter, President of the English Chess Federation, actor, professional quizzer and panellist on Eggheads, homosexual, supporter of gay rights.
Professor John A Lee: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Consultant Histopathologist at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Professor of Pathology at Hull York Medical School, writer in the Lancet.
Professor Richard Norman: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, Professor of Moral Philosophy, founder-member of the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, contributor to BHA web resources.
Zoe Margolis: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, journalist, best-selling blogger, contributor to The Guardian and The Observer, ‘ambassador’ for the Brooks sexual health charity, pornographic author of Girl with a One-Track Mind.
Joan Smith: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, columnist, novelist and human rights activist, writes about feminism and human rights.
Michael Gore: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Brought up a Roman Catholic but abandoned the faith, promoter of Darwinism, naturalist.
Derek McAuley: Professor of Digital Economy, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham, Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Lorraine Barratt: BHA trained celebrant and conductor of Humanist and non-religions funerals and baby ceremonies, atheist. Lives in Penarth, Wales. Resigned as a Welsh AM shortly after hosting a blasphemous poetry recital in the Assembly.
Dr Susan Blackmore: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, Bristol, atheist.
Dr Harry Stopes-Roe: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, British philosopher, son of family planning pioneer Marie Stopes, past science lecturer.
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC: BHA Distinguished Supporter, human rights layer, Jewish immigrant descendant, founded Bindmans law firm.
Adele Anderson: BHA Distinguished Supporter, transsexual, actress and singer in cabaret and musical theatre, writer, bought up as Anglican.
Dr Helena Cronin: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, explorer of evolutionary thinking, campaigner against maintained religion schools, an honorary associate of Rationalist International and of the Rationalist Association, wants Charles Darwin’s birthday to be a public holiday.
Professor Alice Roberts: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Anatomist, fanatical evolutionist, broadcaster, self-declared non-believer in life after death.
Professor Chris French: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Chartered Psychologist, sceptic Professor of Psychology, specialising in paranormal beliefs, editor of The Skeptic, Guardian writer.
Sir Tom Blundell: BHA Distinguished Supporter, British biochemist and science administrator, supported proposed bank holiday for Charles Darwin’s birthday, research interests include DNA repair.
Maureen Duffy: BHA Distinguished Supporter: Novelist, poet, playwright, used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology in her works, wrote lesbian novel The Microcosm. Homosexual activist and first president of the Gay Humanist Group.
Baroness Whitaker: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, Former civil servant, Labour life peer since, moved amendment to repeal the blasphemy law in Anti-Terrorism Bill.
Lord Avebury: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Lib Dem peer, founder Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Buddhist, ardent campaigner against blasphemy laws and for euthanasia.
Richard Herring: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, stand-up comedian, TV celebrity. Wrote Christ on a Bike – The Second Coming.
Martin Rowson: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, cartoonist for The Guardian, The Times, The Sindy, The Daily Mirror, The Spectator.
Tony Hawks: BHA Distinguished Supporter, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist, TV/radio panellist,
Peter Cave: BHA Distinguished Supporter, author, speaker, lecturer, chair Philosophers’ Group, scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes.
Diane Munday: BHA Distinguished Supporter, abortionist, member of the Abortion Law Reform Association in 1960s, ex-magistrate, a director of the Rationalist Press Association.
Professor Norman MacLean: BHA Distinguished Supporter, biologist, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Southampton University. Reared as an Exclusive Brethren.
Professor Sir Harold Kroto: BHA Distinguished Supporter, joint Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, against expansion of religious maintained schools, raised Jewish.
Sir Richard Dalton: BHA Distinguished Supporter, former diplomat, business consultant, Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme, author.
Sir David Blatherwick: BHA Distinguished Supporter, retired diplomat.
Michael Rubenstein: BHA Distinguished Supporter, publisher, writer, adviser on employment and discrimination law, Editor monthly Industrial Relations Law Reports.
Polly Toynbee: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, writer, Guardian columnist, broadcaster, feature writer for Observer.
Lord O’Neill: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Ex-Labour MP for Ochil, against ‘mixing religion and politics’.
Dan Snow: BHA ‘Distinguished Supporter’, avowed atheist, broadcaster, historian, should know better.
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This only proves one thing: fear. They fear our Christian Constitution, they fear the Christian values of our nation. Though David Cameron pays tribute to this, he himself hardly made things better by introducing that legalised sodomy we call the same-sex marriages act. Was he or is he not aware of the Bible’s teaching on this?
It’s getting close to election time, Ashley. Cameron needs the votes of as many Christians as he can drum up to offset the losses he caused by his legalised sodomy. Expect more of the same in the months ahead.
This is the same David Cameron who ‘does’ Christianity, apparently when it suits him; the same David Cameron who admitted that he had no idea of the ‘reaction’ that it would cause when he brought it before Parliament and yet it had not been in his party’s, nor the others’ manifestoes.
Disappointed to see Dan Snow on this list and it shows that the drive to destroy any mention of anything christian is in full swing
Thank you Stephen. You can be sure we will be praying for the love of Jesus into every heart that the power of God hits each and every one in a way that they can never deny…after all, that’s what we’re called to do in a Christian nation !
Never even heard of most of these ‘celebrities’. Nick Ross, yes; Tatchell, yes; Pullman, yes, but as for the others, who? Actually, Stephen, in one sense the BHA are quite correct in their accusation levelled against Cameron: Christianity IS a very divisive force in our society, by its very nature (the sheep and the goats?).
When we have goats like Dawkins and Fry, we must expect people like the DISTINGUISHED SUPPORTERS of the BHA, NSS, RA, Uncle Tom Cobley, etc, to feel rather offended by a declaration such as Cameron’s.
Let us not be unduly alarmed by this posturing in the Telegraph. If the influence of Hume, Russell, et al was reduced to zero, so will be the notice that the world takes of this publicity stunt.
Our Queen was crowned nearly sixty-one years ago to ‘..uphold the Laws of God & the True Profession of the Gospel’. Her Coronation Oath still stands, even though she has been forced to break it. Not least through this legalised sodomy we call the Same-Sex Marriages Act. No surprise then that judgement is falling on this nation ..
It was Christianity that provided the first free education through the SPCK (Society for Propogation of Christian Knowledge) before State-run comprehensives; it was Christianity that was the founding principle for hospital treatment (witness our hospitals named St Thomas’s & Guy’s) way before a State-run NHS.
I shall be standing for the Christian Peoples Alliance in the forthcoming council & European (London Region) elections.
I’m surprised at Nick Ross! One of the nicest TV presenters and one of the few who speaks decent English. Well, Tatchell – need one say more?
We are living in the lasts days. The Bible informs us to expect these scoffers and critics. Pray for these lost souls. God is not dead, He has risen! Praise God!
The Daily Telegraph described the signatories as ’55 public figures from a range of political backgrounds’. Er, no, they aren’t. They are all atheists.
What nonsense. Since when did atheism become a political movement?
From the moment they started changing laws according to their anti-Christian stance, Lee.
For example, abolishing the death penalty for murder and the law against blasphemy, legalising abortion, sodomy, no-fault-divorce-on-demand, pornography, gay marriage, trying to ban school prayers, legalise euthanasia, prostitution, and so on and so on. Just today we have atheist Nick Clegg wanting to dis-establish the Church of England.
Yes, be sure atheism is a political movement, Lee.
Thanks to all the other atheists who submitted comments in the same vein.
No, that doesn’t hold water because all of those views above could be espoused by Christians or people of other faiths. Atheism is no determinant of one’s stance on the death penalty, euthanasia, or ‘sodomy’, for instance.
Secularism is a political movement because it has a political objective. Several of your example are secular positions, not atheist ones. Atheism is merely adherence to no religion and a lack of belief in a theistic God. That is not a political position. It’s an ontological position.
From your ontological position comes your political position if you are consistent in your world-view. Some Christians may ignorantly have gone along with some of those anti-Christ atheist/secularist changes, but they did not espouse or initiate them. The political pressure came from and was organised by atheists. BTW, can you name for me a BHA or NSS atheist campaigner who supports the death penalty and opposes euthanasia and the legalisation of sodomy?
Although all of those thing you mentioned are un-Christian, and if you were to investigate I suspect you would find each one of the signitories would be justifying some un-Christian activity in their life styles. Why else would they deny Christ? Because they don’t agree with the moral philosophy? They would stand up and state that they don’t believe in compassion, forgiveness, love?
I don’t have faith in the supernatural, that is what makes me an atheist. Having compassion does not require faith in the supernatural, loving someone does not require faith in the supernatural, forgiveness does not require faith in the supernatural. I do not feel the need to “justify” any of my life style choices by Christain, Muslim, Hindu, Rastafarian or even Pastafrain standards because I do not have faith in the supernatural. I do not ‘deny’ God because I dislike God’s rules.
‘Having compassion, … loving someone, … forgiveness does not require faith in the supernatural.’
But judging by the number of Christian missions vs the number of atheist ones dedicated to helping, educating, healing and caring for the poor, and the prevalence of forgiveness in Christian as opposed to, say, Marxist or Darwinian teaching, Christian faith in the supernatural certainly appears to help.
And politics are just the public relations arm of the corporate satanic entity. We are living in an occulture. Their first target is the building block of family. Every thing they do they do to negate the institution of family with a view to replacing fathers and mothers with the state and to reduce the population of white Christian British to minority status.
Since when was Christianity a political movement? Cameron has cynically said this just before an election to try and win back people who don’t support the equal marriage act and people who are swaying towards voting UKIP.
I’d be rather more happy with Cameron claiming Christianity if he hadn’t made benefit cuts to the most vulnerable in society. What does the Bible say about ‘when you do it to the least of them then you do it for me’?
Jane, you are right that Christians are not as consistent in their political views as are atheists. Too many do not have a Christian world-view.
Your quotation is of course from the Lord’s teaching about separation of the sheep from the goats in Matthew 25:31-46. His warnings about caring for the naked, the hungry and the homeless must apply to a society as well as to each individual in my view.
The irony is that as much as Mr Cameron was prepared to railroad through his anti-Christian ‘gay marriage’ act and presides over a system in which street preachers get arrested, he now praises the church, calls for evangelism, supports the ‘faith-based’ (ie Christian) missions that provide exactly the care spoken about by the Lord and above all wants our votes.
He won’t get mine next month.
“Since when did atheism become a political movement?” – Lee C.
I would reply when Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital. “Religion is the opiate of the people”? Atheism is a pre-requisite for membership of any left-wing political party whose policies are based on a totally materialistic view of human life.
And Marx later said that comment was one of his biggest mistakes
Where?
Apparently Mr Gray is still searching for the source of his citation. If Marx did admit that the oft-quoted remark was “one of his biggest mistakes”, it was certainly not THE biggest. That was writing Das Kapital in the first place.
So many professors and doctors, seems to me all education does these days is drive people away from the +Lord+.
I thank +Him+ everyday that I left school when I was 16.
Sure I don’t make money like all those fancy evilutionists, but my riches are the Kingdom of Heaven.
Of course they are atheists, why would a christian be bothered with Cameron’s remarks?
Britain is NOT, in any sense, a christian nation. It homes people of every faith and people of no faith. When a PM makes those kind of remarks, he undermines Britain’s plurality.
It’s comments like that which show up the sheer ignorance and lack of intelligence and ability to reason in atheist circles.
‘Britain is NOT, in any sense, a christian nation.’
In any sense? Have you forgotten our Christian constitution, our Christian legal, literary and cultural heritage, our established church and our majority Christian population?
As for ‘plurality’, the biggest non-Christian religious minority are Muslims at 4% of the population (yes, I know that figure is growing – it might be 5% by now).
David Cameron was stating reality. Get over it, as they say.
I do not wish to be rude, I also left school at 16, but to comment that education appears the antithesis to religion yet reach the conclusion that therefore education is somehow in the wrong, is truly mind blowing. Education in this country does its level best to indoctrinate people in to the church. I was taught to pray, to sing hymns, to praise jesus at every opportunity before I was old enough to decide if it were true for myself. Education is the antithesis of religion because it advocates thought, reasoned debate, analysis, observation and drawing credible conclusions based on logic and reason. Religion does not advocate these things, for obvious reasons.
‘Education is the antithesis of religion because it advocates thought, reasoned debate, analysis, observation and drawing credible conclusions based on logic and reason. Religion does not advocate these things, for obvious reasons.’
Bonkers. Plain unashamed bonkers.
Why?
Faith is the following of an ideal without requiring evidence. Religions do not encourage debate on whether what it preaches is true, it merely requires you to follow.
Nonsense. The Gospels are intent on giving masses of evidence and encouraging great depth of study. Observation, analysis, debate, logic and reason are God-given and employed to the ultimate in theology. God says, ‘Let us reason together’.
And, oddly enough, evolution does not encourage debate on whether what it preaches is true, it merely requires you to follow. (And it defies logic.)
Equally, (Hebrews 11:6) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
I’m not sure what the reward is of placing faith in mutations and natural selection.
There is no reward Stephen. We don’t all need the promise of a reward to live our lives in a nice, friendly manner.
I would leave it there, but please, if you’re going to attempt to talk about evolution at least take the time to try and understand some of it. Evolution is a scientific theory that has yet to be disproved. By anyone. Scientific theories are stated, tested, and then submitted to the wider world for scrutiny. If someone is able to produce evidence or results that discredit a theory, it becomes obsolete as a new theory takes its place. The fact that evolution is so widely accepted as fact is because of the overwhelming evidence available to us that it is true.
I hope we can put your faith in scientific process as it allegedly applies to evolution down to the naivete of youth.
In the real world, Evolution is only widely accepted amongst biologists and paleontologists because jobs and reputations depend on it. So no-one dare rock the boat. It’s not because evidence backs it up. There is more evidence in opposition, from modern knowledge of genetics, information theory, symbiosis, irreducible complexity, logic, mathematics to name but a few. Plus the inability of anyone to reproduce any beneficial mutation or start life from non-life in a lab.
Well I need hardly add anything more to Stephen’s response, though Britain may not necessarily be a Christian nation in terms of church attendance, we still have Christian foundations, since King Alfred. Also, what about Christian missionaries that went abroad and spread God’s word, through the old Empire, despite its faults?
I find the description of Professor Alice Roberts as a ‘fanatical’ evolutionist somewhat amusing. She is an evolutionist who relies on observation and scientific evidence to clearly show that that evolution, whether you like it or not, is undeniable.
And who cares that all those that signed letter are atheists or members of the BHA? The letter made a great deal of sense.
Britain is home to people of many faiths and a far greater number, than you’d care to admit, with no faith at all.
This country, thank goodness, is not exclusively Christian.
Evolution is a hypothesis, and Alice Roberts cannot even defend her bizarre idea that our tools shaped our hands, rather than the other, slightly more logical, way round!
The letter ‘made sense’ only to fanatical, anti-Christ atheists. To anyone of any real sense it was preposterous.
‘This country, thank goodness, is not exclusively Christian.’ Thank ‘goodness’? Priceless.
You could be respectful and refer to ‘Professor’ Alice Roberts in the correct terms.
I think the majority would trust and listen to her learned views than yours Stephen.
Evolution is a hypothesis that, despite 150 or so years of trying to discredit it, gains strength with every new discovery and experiment. It is only called a theory as science is always open to be proved wrong, unlike so many religions.
And why is the term ‘goodness’ priceless?
Goodness isn’t confined solely to society’s religious.
As Professor Richard Dawkins quite rightly points out: “Good people will do good things whether they believe in God or not as bad people will do bad things. It takes religion to get good people to do bad things.”
The majority have no choice but to listen to Professor Dr Alice Roberts rather than me, Kevin. She is on the TV nearly every week.
Funnily enough, With what we now know about DNA, bioenergetics, Information Theory, species limitation, symbiosis and animals which defy evolution such as the Bombadier Beetle and the Giraffe, evolution is looking less plausible daily. But, as Lewontin said, letting go of evolution is hard to do, because the alternative is too scary: ‘Materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door’.
To thank ‘goodness’ you have to define ‘goodness’ itself, and without God, that will just mean you rolling out your preconceptions. That’s what is priceless, appealing to what everyone else regards as an absolute but you can only hold subjectively.
The trouble with Richard Dawkins when he speaks of ‘religion’ is, he cannot admit any difference between Islam and Christianity. That’s what makes remarks like the one you have quoted seem so silly. I’m not at all sure we can characterise people as ‘good’ or bad’ as simplistically as he does, either. But then philosophy and theology are not his strong points.
“It takes religion to get good people to do bad things.” – Richard Dawkins.
Without a Christian basis, no one does good things. Why should they, if they gain an advantage by doing bad things?
It is pretentious nonsense to assert that ‘non-religious’ people can do good things. An investigation of the background of such people would soon reveal their Christian upbringing, and the indelible influence that their childhood faith has had on them, even into old age. Hence, their personal code of morals and sense of decent behaviour.
Even Dawkins was brought up as an Anglican, as he admits, so his moral code is derived from his Christian education, and not from any extraneous source such as the BHA.
You know, Geoffrey, I have seen and heard from no end of people released from a life of crime or drugs through faith in Christ.
I have never heard of anyone leaving a life of crime or dependency on drugs through becoming an atheist.
Where to begin. It seems to me you imagine that were you to discover tomorrow your god wasn’t real, your moral code would instantly disappear. I can assure you that would not be the case. It would be your choice, as it is now.
An interesting point though. I do then have to wonder if you’re insinuating morals did not exist before the advent of christianity. That morality did not exist until the birth of jesus is quite a preposterous conclusion to reach, I’m sure you would agree. Difficult to see what else you could have meant there though.
No religion can make a claim on morality, although they do all try. They have to. Morality is a universal human trait brought on by evolution. If somebody feels they need the threat of a god watching over them to ensure they behave nicely to others is a real shame. They’re doing themselves a disservice.
Of course morality existed before the birth of Christ. It was put in place by God in the beginning. But other cultures have different morals. The Canaanites believed it was acceptable to sacrifice children. So do we. Abortion is our version of child sacrifice. The difference being is that it comes, not from worshiping fertility or whatever, but from setting mankind up as the ultimate authority.
Atheists do not set mankind up as the ultimate authority. If you understand evolution you know we are part of a family of species, all with one common ancestor. Humanity – still overwhelmingly religious or superstitious – isn’t doing a fantastic job of showing this it does have to be said, but the more aware people become of this the better we become at conservation. Its certainly a far more moral stance than the bible which states god gave us dominion over all other creatures. Now that really does set up mankind as some sort of authority.
Of course atheists have man and his ‘reason’ as the ultimate authority. And therein is the problem. Information Theory declares rightly that no man will ever understand mankind, so human-made laws will always be fallible.
No, we are not part of ‘a family of species’, and conservation is merely mankind acting out the very dominion mandate about which you complain.
Lee C,
the fact that God gave us dominion over the animals and birds does not give us a right to mistreat them: they are God’s creatures. God gave us authority over animals and birds – that to me suggests that we shall be accountable for how we treat animals, birds and all creatures. Our common ancestor is God: He created mankind in His own image as well as all animals and creatures.
To all who have declared that Britain is no longer a nation of believers: The fool says in his heart that there is no God. Thank you to all the fools who have contributed to this issue.
I am writing from a ‘developing’ nation called Uganda. We have recently outlawed homosexuality much to the chagrin and threats from the “developed’ nations. We are going further. Members of the Coalition for the Advancement of Moral Values-East Africa are planning to organize a NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MORALITY. Join with us to have a successful conference. That aside, our God is inseparable with morality. A nation whose God is the Almighty God is righteous. In Uganda, we are appalled to see anti-God forces seeking to take over nations such as yours. It is a cardinal duty of all true Christians to stand up to these New Age forces. Our God will win for you. We shall stand with you.
Dear Nsaba,
‘Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord’, Amen.
And to think that it was my nation whose missionaries took the Gospel to your country: proof if proof were needed that not everything about the old Empire was bad. Hence this once-great nation, despite its failings.
Dear Philip Morgan,
I have two responses to your good self: Jesus exercised compassion, as recorded in the Gospels; if rules were not set down by God our society – and other societies – would have descended into even worse anarchy than now.
Are you a father? If so, do you not set down rules for how your children behave?
Ashley D
A quick survey of the planet’s religious beliefs will reveal thousands of different gods. Which one is in charge of the rule book?
And that’s only Hinduism. Pagans deify aspects of creation which are important or threatening to them. That’s why the ancient Egyptians had a god (that is a spiritual power) for the river Nile, for the sun, for the locust, and so on and so. They even regarded Pharaoh himself as a ‘god’. The Canaanites worshiped fertility, the Aztecs the sun, the Norse thunder. Hindus have ‘gods’ of fertility, death, wealth, fortune, cattle, etc, and you have to make sacrifice (puja) to keep on the right side of them. The bigger the sacrifice, the better pleased is the ‘god’.
But there is a better way. You only need to look to the original Creator. The Bible says that God made the earth and the heavens:
1Chronicles 16:25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
The LORD even redeemed both mankind and the sacrifice idea itself by allowing himself, in the form of his son, Jesus Christ, to become the ultimate sacrifice on the cross to take away the sin of whoever would believe in him. And Christ showed his power over death by rising from the dead. Here is what he said about that:
John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
So the Almighty laid down both the physical laws which bind the universe together and the moral and judicial laws which regulate human society. Our duty, if we know what is good for us, is to keep the moral and judicial laws and call on God in Jesus for forgiveness when we fall short:
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Only one, and I think we all know Who, don’t we, eh?
Hi Stephen, many thanks for revealing that so called “55” anti Christian people, are all supporters of the BHA. I praise and thank God for your willingness to speak out and call our nation back to Jesus in repentance. You are in my prayers, and I so hope that every one that calls Jesus their saviour will be bold in prayer so that revival will once more come to our nation. Oh, God, change and transform our land once more. Thank you brother.