God didn't protect Christchurch in the earthquake.

This topic may be slightly controversial to you; but frankly, this is a topic I feel I need to write about.

Often I hear in church or from my Christian friends that it was a miracle that the earthquake happened at 4:00 am or that God was looking after Christchurch so that no one got seriously hurt or killed.

However, when people say that it irritates me tremendously.

Do these people realize that natural disasters happen all over the world? When I hear statements like "God was watching over Christchurch", I always squirm; What about Haiti, Indonesia, Pakistan, Chile, China and the many other countries that have suffered through natural disasters and have had a much greater detrimental impact and many lives lost? Does God not care about them? Are the people of Christchurch worth more to save?

The answer is of course emphatically NO: the inhabitants are no better than any other people in the world; no matter what they might name their city.

The reason for the earthquake happening was that tectonic plates occasionally move or shift resulting in quakes: most people learnt this in school hopefully. As to the 'miracle' of no loss of life; the earthquake happened at 4:00 when almost all dangerous places were uninhabited: earthquakes are quite random in choosing their time to strike. Furthermore, us in Christchurch have built solid houses that don't fall down easily it was that fact that prevented many people getting killed: I DO NOT believe that God supernaturally intervened in protecting the people of Christchurch. He may have intervened in individual cases, He may have intervened in individual cases in Haiti or China also.

In the bible it says that the rain fall upon the good and the wicked alike: This means that God doesn't designate what the natural world does; He has created it to work a certain way.

People say God has a purpose in the Christchurch earthquake. I think you must be careful in saying that: God did not intend for the devastation caused by the Christchurch earthquake (or any other natural disatser), but God 'has a purpose for it' in the sense that He can use it for good in spite of the evil.

Thus I implore you to be careful when talking about God and the earthquake. God did not send the earthquake nor did he intervene to thwart what would naturally have occurred: this world that we live in is a dangerous place that has many natural disasters happening seemingly at random.

Why the Germans lost World War Two

When American industry had fully warmed up to the war effort they didn't bother to paint their warplanes. Painting takes time and effort; the painting takes up precious man-hours and paint takes up to a day to fully dry. The only painting they did was to do the insignia for identification.

The Germans in making their V-1 and V-2 rockets, solely designed for a one-way trip, painstakingly painted each and every one.

What Obama Does Not Know - Part 2 of 3

What Obama Does Not Know - Part 1 of 3

Juris Naturalism

I want to explain my political belief...

I subscribe to Juris Naturalism; a incredibly unique political philosophy and method of looking at the world, society and history. The founder of this philosophy is a little-known economist named Richard Maybury.

Here I wish to state and explain what I call the 'Four tenets of Juris Naturalism'.

Be aware that this is as yet still a rudimentary definition of this radical and new political worldview.

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1. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely: An abuse of power, either in its allocation or application, is at the source of all societal evil.

2. The law is a science: There is a natural law higher than any government's law, that if followed will make society run better, however if not followed will make society fail and lead to the abuse of power in 1.; natural law is essentially contained in two fundamental laws: 1) Do all you have agreed to do. 2) Do not encroach on other persons or their property.

3. Government, inevitably leads to 1.

4. The supply of money is essential in understanding how the world works; fiat money (paper money or government printed money) is the source of almost all economic woes.

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Juris Naturalism draws upon the ideas of; Thomas Paine, Ludwig Von Mises, Patrick Henry and Benjamin Franklin. However Juris Naturalism is distinct from conservatism or even libertarianism. Conservatism, to a Juris Naturalist, is no different then liberalism or mild-socialist parties that dominate the political atmosphere. Libertarianism fails to recognize the importance of the monetary supply on economics and also fails to acknowledge Natural law and its role in the world.

Jurist Naturalists do not look at politics in the same way as other political theorists; we don't use the conventional 'political spectrum'. Rather, instead of left to right, it's a scale of statist to non-statist. Statism is the idea that government can solve any problem and that all power should be vested in the state i.e. the government. Statism is, if you like the antithesis to Juris Naturalism.

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Our way of looking at history is incredibly unique also. But that is for other posts.

Abortion

Abortion is something I feel strongly about.

Abortion in this society is the continual killing of innocent human beings simply because they are unwanted.

Unborn babies are no less human than you and me; the baby itself produces a chemical to prevent the mother's immune system from attacking it, thereby negating the "it's a part of the mother" argument.

Abortion is not for women's choice: The 'real' feminist movement considered abortion something that was used to devalue women .

Anti-abortion laws in Great Britain were created due to the bravery of the early feminist groups.

Anti-abortion and pro-life movements is not limited to the christian demographic.

Nor is it limited to the socially-conservative.

Abortion is the killing of a human being read into any of the links I've provided and you will find excellent proof of this.

Join prolife at UC!!!!

Humans are special

What is it that separates us from the animal kingdom? As a christian the answer is plain. We are created in the image of God As it is written; "Let us create man in our own image".

But what does it mean to be created in the image of God? Earlier I thought that this must mean that God has a head, arms, legs etc all the physical characteristics of a human's physical form. However that was a naive assumption on my part on the real meaning of this verse. Instead of referring to our physical form, the scripture of course applies to our mind/spirit/soul.

One of the main qualities which we have inherited from God is our creative ability. Look around, we have created new ideas, new mechanisms and new structures. Wisely said in the movie Ratatouille; "There's something about them [Humans], they don't just survive they create". Our God is the creator God and we his creations are also creators.

Creativity certainly isn't the only attribute given to us but it is one of them. Animals may go along as they always have but humans will always endeavour to express their creativeness.

Dinosaurs and Humans.... Together?

Now we get controversial.

I will make a statement and now defend it:

Not only did Humans coexist with Dinosaurs, but Dinosaurs have only ever been around when Humans have existed; that is there never was a time when Dinosaurs existed and humans did not.

Woop woop; I can feel the antagonism through the computer screen.

This is such a strange proposition to many people that they can not even comprehend it. We have been told for our entire lives that dinosaurs lived in a world way before humans; this has mostly been perpetrated by the media. If I ever took a mass comms. paper I would write on the indoctrination of the media about this issue.

People also think that humans wouldn't be able to survive with dinosaurs. We'd get eaten! However, there are already many animals in the world that would like to eat us.

Now I was going to write more but I then found an incredible article here which can do it far better than I can in this current state of tiredness. I recommend reading the article!!!

I will write more on this topic.

Cain's Wife and incest.

I believe that the first humans were Adam and Eve. From those two human beings the entire human race descended.

However, there is an obvious problem to whom did their sons wed?

Well we know first that, besides Cain and Seth, Adam and Eve had "other sons and daughters".

Therefore, and dare I say this, the only option for the children of Adam and Eve, was to marry their own siblings...

Two things arise:

Today not only is it illegal and immoral to marry our sisters or even our cousins, but unhealthy for any offspring. That is because we each carry in our genetic code, genetic 'mistakes' making it more likely that those mistakes would be passed to our children if we married a close relation. However, Adam and Eve would have had a perfect genetic code.

Also it is considered immoral to marry ones sister. However, on what basis do we say that incest is immoral? The bible of course! The bible strictly forbids incest in the book of Leviticus; ever since that point it has been immoral, and just plain gross to even think about it: but the point is there once was a time when it was allowed.

So much evil in the world..

Abortion, the holocaust, the slave trade, the gulags, the cultural revolution, wars, hiroshima and many other horrible events, not deserving of a capital letter, have happened and are happening all around the world.

People are, murdered, killed, abducted, beaten, slaughtered, terrified, degraded and forced to do horrible things against their will; these people don't get choices.

One wonders where God is in all that.

Recently I got asked a question in a similar vein: Why didn't God let all these things happen? How could He be omniscient and omnibenevolent if atrocities are permitted to carry on?

I answered like I had been told to answer: "It comes down to man's free will and continual rebellion from God."

I wasn't expecting the cynical reply: Those people in the Soviet gulags had no free will; they were just rounded up and sent to their deaths.

How to answer better?

Well, where I went wrong was the fact that I had not been clear enough in my answer: God will judge each by their actions based on what they knew, therefore those who have suffered and not given opportunity to be saved will be shown mercy. Also those perpetrators of evil will be judged likewise; they will be judged. Furthermore the existence of love necessitates the existence of evil; if we had no choice to do evil, we would not be able to love.

So, there I can answer better. The problem with myself is that, I am not a debater or a confrontational person, rather I am an alliance-maker; I am a diplomat not a politician.

But still, it is good for me to always be prepared to give an answer for why I believe.