Comments by "Henry Law" (@henrybn14ar) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. Why is this even being discussed? "Islamophobia" is NewSpeak, an invention intended to shut down discussion.
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  2. The UK killed its manufacturing sector with its idiotic tax system. Even a window tax would be better. The UK tax system is nothing but a system of fines and penalties for successfully engaging in legal economic activity
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  3. Your brother probably realised that if he took and entry-level job, he would be worse off. The system encourages it.
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  4. Too late. Read 'The Brothers Karamozov'. The west is where Russia was at the end of the 1870s. Hell is coming within the next 30 years. The west forgot its Christianity. The churches forgot their Christianity. The only significant Christian leadership world-wide is in a surprising place. The place where, 50 years ago is the one where it would least have been expected.
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  5. The religious programme 'Sunday' has got bad. There was a nasty report on the Russian Orthodox Church last week, emphasising the negative aspects.
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  6.  @tozmom615  You cannot altogether blame people for living on benefits if they would be worse off if they took the sort of job they are likely to get.
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  7. The Guardian website has become the epicentre of woke. It is a reliable guide as to what not to think. If the Guardian supports something or someone you can be pretty much certain that it is or they are a bad thing
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  8.  @robertaspindale2531  There is a long list of differences which favour German industry, and there are also important differences between the tax systems in the two countries. Germany also has the advantage of being in the centre of a land mass rather than being an island, and a currency which is undervalued by around 20%; the latter is not really an advantage as it means that Germans are effectively working for nothing for one day a week. If Germany has done better it despite its tax system, not because of it. If an enemy power wanted to damage the economy of a country, it would impose a tax system like that of the UK.
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  9. It surely has to be said that the letterbox comparison was rather silly. Letterboxes are red.
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  10. Oxford University went bad at least a decade ago.
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  11. Too late. The battle is a spiritual one and since it has been going on in the churches - even the great bastion of the Roman Catholic Church has fallen, it is lost. Christian leadership by default now means the the Eastern Orthodox, which in practice is Moscow, astonishingly. The west is finished. The 1917 moment is approaching. Or possibly the 1453 moment. A lot of responsibility will be falling on Israel.
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  12.  @VantaBlack216  German efficiency is a myth. It is a case of "other people's grass". In my experience they are even better at being jobsworths than the British. This inflexibility costs them money. I had a run-in with a German company (DHL) only last week which lost them a job and inconvenienced me as well. They live up to their stereotypes. It might be a Lutheran trend, though the Scandinavians are also Lutherans but tend to be more pragmatic, probably because they are maritime cultures like the British.
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  13.  @RevGary  What happened to the seven missing books of the bible which were in the original Hebrew text, and the Septuagint? The original Hebrew texts of the OT are not available. They were edited after the Septuagint was produced, with the Christological references toned down. It is also clear that John 6 is saying that the Eucharist is a real transformation and not merely symbolic. That interpretation is not exclusively one held by the RCC.
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  14.  @RevGary  Very interesting points. The Protestant church began as a protest. A protest against the Roman Papacy. So the early church cannot have been a Protestant church! Constantine was not in Rome but in Constantinople. After the fifth century, Rome and the Roman Papacy lapsed into obscurity until it was promoted by Charlemagne at the end of the eight century. There was, and still is, another Pope at Alexandria. There are also traditional branches of the church in the east and in Africa, beyond the boundaries of what was the Roman Empire and where Constantine never had influence. The Constantine story does not work.
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  15.  @RevGary  Very interesting points. The Protestant church began as a protest. A protest against the Roman Papacy. So the early church cannot have been a Protestant church! Constantine was not in Rome but in Constantinople. After the fifth century, Rome and the Roman Papacy lapsed into obscurity until it was promoted by Charlemagne at the end of the eight century. There was, and still is, another Pope at Alexandria. There are also traditional branches of the church in the east and in Africa, beyond the boundaries of what was the Roman Empire and where Constantine never had influence. The Constantine story does not work.
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  16. The issue is destroying the whole of the west. Britain was hit about 20 years before some other countries; it did not arrive in force here in Sweden until 2015, though it has been incubating for 40 years. The Ukraine conflict is at least in part driven by the conflict between two sets of values. The west is on the wrong side of history and likely to go through the same torment that Russia went through.
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  17. Are religious texts exempt from this legislation?
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  18. The rot was setting in during the 1950s. It is the influence of Rousseau, among others.
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  19.  @realCharAznable  Christians Catholic and Orthodox have always belied in the Real Presence ie Transubstantiation. It is spelled out in John 6, and again in the appearance at Emmaus. The idea that it is symbolic is a 16th century innovation.
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  20. Uninspiring speaker. Where is the fire in the belly?
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  21. Who exactly would receive this compensation?
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  22. Perhaps the problem is the institution of the Papacy itself. The claims are not as solid as they are appear at first sight. The Roman interpretation of Matthew 16:18 is not the only possible, or even reasonable, one. St Peter was bishop at Antioch. The primacy of bishops in the early church belonged to Jerusalem. The evangelisation by the early church was distributed among several of the apostles. The monarchical concept of the papacy developed towards the end of the first millennium.
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  23. We do not need a new Enlightenment. Post Modernism has its roots there, via Rousseau and Marx. We need to claw our way back to orthodox means of thinking. The Enlightenment was a Gnostic movement, and it is what has brought us to this point.
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  24. Hasn't he heard of the Royal Navy West African Patrol?
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  25. Most of the economic arguments against Brexit are based on the seventeenth century theory of economics known as 'mercantilism'. It had been refuted several times over by 1800 and the refutations have never been overturned - only ignored.
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  26. The names tick the Intersectionality boxes.
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  27. Perhaps the problem is the institution of the Papacy itself. The claims are not as solid as they are appear at first sight. The Roman interpretation of Matthew 16:18 is not the only possible, or even reasonable, one. St Peter was bishop at Antioch. The primacy of bishops in the early church belonged to Jerusalem. The evangelisation by the early church was distributed among several of the apostles. The monarchical concept of the papacy developed towards the end of the first millennium.
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  28.  @borderlands6606  In its original language.
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  29.  @borderlands6606  In its original language.
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  30.  @RevGary  How can you be certain it is the Holy Spirit teaching those things?
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  31.  @RevGary  How can you be certain it is the Holy Spirit teaching those things?
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  32.  @RevGary  What happened to the seven missing books of the bible which were in the original Hebrew text, and the Septuagint? The original Hebrew texts of the OT are not available. They were edited after the Septuagint was produced, with the Christological references toned down. It is also clear that John 6 is saying that the Eucharist is a real transformation and not merely symbolic. That interpretation is not exclusively one held by the RCC.
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  33. The entire financial system is ultimately secured on land titles valued at grotesquely unrealistic prices, pumped up on speculative assumptions. The situation is probably worse than it has ever been, but the phenomenon was identified by Henry George in 'Progress and Poverty', published in 1879, which almost nobody reads these days.
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  34. Similar in Sweden. The perpetrators get compensation.
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  35. Best to stand up on stage and say nothing, then your jokes will not offend anyone.
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  36. 'As soon as you throw an insult, your argument is lost'. Remainers claimed the intellectual and moral high ground and then proceeded to insult the Brexiters. This was the standard picture not just in the Guardian but in the FT.
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  37. Is the national divide the ancient one of Cavaliers and Roundheads?
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  38. Could the root cause be the Pill?
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  39. Too soon to tell with Sweden. At least we are not going mad, locked indoors.
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  40. I was given a copy by a missionary. Nasty boring book taking up space on my bookshelf. What is one to do?
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  41. Little boys used to think that they were the Flying Scotsman or a Spitfire.
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  42. The source is the abandonment of Christianity. That leaves a vacuum that has been filled by unbounded nonsense.
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  43. Any first year chemistry student should know that the CO2 greenhouse theory is bogus.
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  44. Whoever becomes the government will be a disaster for the country, but countries get the governments they deserve. However, reform of the Council Tax is long overdue. It was a stop gap measure to replace the failed poll tax. You cannot have a property tax based on what prices were 30 years ago. Failure to deal with this is one of the reasons why housing costs were out of hand long before the flood of immigration.
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