Thoughts for This Week
There are so many social and political issues these days and so many streams of advice (one differing with the other) that, it seems to me, the only principles that hold true are those taken from the teachings of Christ as recorded in The Bible.
Fifty years ago, on any one subject, you’d be lucky if you saw one opinion piece in the news media in a generation.
I’m exaggerating, of course, but with the information explosion today you’re likely to see two or three opinion pieces in one week e.g. on the current Greece economic crisis.
It becomers very hard to know who to believe.
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In 1977, in the New Zealand Parliament, pro-like Labour MP (member of parilament) Brian MacDonell, held aloft a 12-week-old pickled foetus and suggested that there are “laws that are above Parliament”.
As a consequence, National MP, John Lithgow threatened MacDonel with prison, since it was a crime to “indecently” interfere with human remains.
[Source: The Dominion Post, July 10, 2015)
The New Zealand Parliament then went on to pass an abortion law that treated live foetuses as if they weren’t human beings.
Fifty years ago, on any one subject, you’d be lucky if you saw one opinion piece in the news media in a generation.
I’m exaggerating, of course, but with the information explosion today you’re likely to see two or three opinion pieces in one week e.g. on the current Greece economic crisis.
It becomers very hard to know who to believe.
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In 1977, in the New Zealand Parliament, pro-like Labour MP (member of parilament) Brian MacDonell, held aloft a 12-week-old pickled foetus and suggested that there are “laws that are above Parliament”.
As a consequence, National MP, John Lithgow threatened MacDonel with prison, since it was a crime to “indecently” interfere with human remains.
[Source: The Dominion Post, July 10, 2015)
The New Zealand Parliament then went on to pass an abortion law that treated live foetuses as if they weren’t human beings.
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