a consideration of origins

At a certain level the assertion I make that God created the world (which I hope and believe to be true) is in terms of human philosophy, credibility, rationalism and even science itself, an honorable draw with one of the fundamental assertions of those who deem themselves atheistic scientists when they try to explain where the universe came from.
I have chosen to believe God created it.
The atheistic scientist will offer an explanation involving quantum theories or relativity or some other concatination of physics, chemistry and higher mathematics, and all cloaked in a beautifully inaccessible magnificently opaque veneer of inductive postulations.
Beautifully inaccessible.
Cloaked.
Opaque.
Because here we are dealing with what Einstein in one of his more unworthy moments, attributed to those of us who say we believe in God, namely mystification and priestcraft.
Bear in mind that as Einstein said this he was explicitly rejecting atheism, scientific or otherwise.
I am suggesting that the atheistic scientists mathematical and quantum based explanations for the origin of the universe are absolutely in the realms of priestcraft and mystification.
There is no honorable draw at this point between those who believe in God and those who advocate modern atheistic cosmologies.
I would say at this point that the believers in God as the creator of the universe are far more credible within philosophical, rational, spiritual and scientific parametres than those atheistic scientists who wallow in the priestcraft and mystification of quantum theories, steady states and the notion of the multiverse.
No.
The honorable draw comes when the atheistic explanation of the universe is stripped bare of its deliberate obfuscations.
An atheistic scientist (any of them) is saying: "Everything came from nothing and had no purpose or cause beyond accident."
The atheistic scientist who delves deeper into his own conceptions of reality, may try the equally untenable line that the universe has always existed or that the energy that created the universe has always existed in some form.
My own views boil down to: "God created everything and has always existed and was himself uncaused."
So each of is saying that something always existed..
That's the concept that the human mind whether of a believer or an atheist, boggles at.
We cannot yet grasp what we mean by eternal existence.
That's the honorable draw which I claim and admit to with the atheistic scientists.
I say more.
Although I use the term atheistic scientist to convey a particular mindset as proposed by a particular group of thinkers, there is in truth no such thing as an atheistic scientist.
Richard Dawkins, the most famous of them all, God bless him, and all the rest of them, are the most superstitious men on the planet.



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Footnote: Einstein's insightful comment, including the reference to priestcraft which I interpreted as an unworthy sideswipe at Catholicism, went as follows: "If one purges the Judaism of the prophets, and Christianity as Jesus Christ has taught it, of all subsequent additions, specially that of priestcraft, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social evils of humanity. It is the duty of every man of good will to strive steadfastly in his own little world to make this really human teaching a living force, as far as he can. If he makes an honest effort in this direction, without being crushed and trampled under feet by his contemporaries, he may consider himself and the community to which he belongs lucky." From The World As I See It. Also cited in The Answer To Moscow's Bible by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand.

no truth in the rumour

There is no truth in the rumour that Arnold Schwarzeneggar is working on a movie where he goes back in time to help Padraic Pearse with the 1916 Rising and the that the movie will be called Terminator 1916 The Rise Of The Shoneens. No hang on. That is true.

the IRA's invisibility cloak

Today the Irish Times and a regional newspaper styled the Leinster Leader have finally mentioned the recent suicide cluster in the town of Newbridge near where I live.
In their reports, both newspapers engage in standard operational hand wringing while advocatng weepily for the establishment of government funded phone helplines to address mental health issues in the broader community.
Oh the humanity.
Phone help lines.
It beats fighting crime doesn't it.
For all their pious hand wringing and faux compassion, neither newspaper could quite bring itself to mention the connection of IRA mentored drug gangs in the deaths of those people.

a short satire on the irish national broadcaster RTE's organisation and reportage of commemorations of the 1916 rising

Honorable Leader Padraic Pearse he no likee Blitish empire long time. He great man. He show impeliasts the door. He shoot Blits. Hooray for Padlaic Pearse. Most Irish people say no shootee Blitz our sons are in Blitish army but Padraic Pearse he shootee Blits anyway. He glate man. He do what he want when he want. Glate example to Ireland and to all human lace. Hurray for Harold Lloyd, I mean Padraic Pearse. When his own terrorist movement said no shootee Blitz because people don't want levolution, noble and perfect Helmsman Padraic Pearse say what do people know, they bunch of proles, and he kidnap leader of his own terrorist movement and he shootee Blits anyway so that wonderful Irish people can be flee. He leading Ireland into glate future. All hail Padraic  Pearse. Ten thousand years to Padraic Pearse. The people of North Korea, I mean Ireland, are forever in your death mighty Chairman Pearse. Through your noble vision we have become a free nation ruled by drug gangs the successors of your own secret brotherhood of glorious murderers. Power springs from the barrel of a gun. Happiness is a warm trade union. All hail the gunmen who set us free from archaic Christian religion and outmoded imperialistic notions about the sanctity of life and love of neighbour. Pooh to the superstitions of the papist clique. All hail the dynamiters. All hail Karl Marx. All hail James Connolly. Death to all who dare deny our glateness. The people of China, I mean Ireland, love their beloved leader Pallaic Pearse. All hail the glorious revolution which has turned Russia, I mean Ireland, into the paradise of the workers where IRA rackateers control trade unions and where 167 tram drivers can paralyse the city of Dublin in order to seek thoroughly frivolous pay rises on their already exorbitant wages. Just like the glorious bus drivers. And the glorious teachers. All hail our glorious leader Padraic Pearse for making Ireland a land fit for IRA rackateers to enslave the peasantry with glorious addictions to drugs and the subversion of the trade union movement and the hijacking of the judiciary. Let none question our glorious leader. Every citizen has the right to be addicted to drugs and to pay high taxes to fund ridiculous wages for IRA controlled professions. All hail the lackateers. All hail our glorious leader. Death to all who would have an Ireland that is not dominated by gunmen. All hail mighty Pearse. All hail. All hail Chairman Pearse. The capitalist roaders have been put to flight. The free people of Cambodia, I mean Zimbabwe, I mean Cuba, I mean insert name of country that has been enslaved for a hundred years to the fetish of bloodletting Marxian socialist revolution here, I mean Ireland, have learned through your holy zeal and faith in mass killing and socialist programming that once you start murdering you just can't stop. Mighty Pearse you loved to kill and now your children are coming into your legacy. Your cultural revolution will blood new generations with glorious IRA drug dealing techniques and groovy environmental five year plans. All hail wind farms. All hail Chairman Pearse, and all the old killers whose memory will never grow dim no matter how we airbrush their love of slaughter. All hail. All hail. All hail oh inspired master. You saw through the deceptions of evil imperialistic oppressive Hebrew Ten Commandments and silly Thou Shalt Not Kill superstitions. You gave us the true path. A shining path. A path that has brought us the glories of Michael D Higgins, the glories of Enda Kenny, the glories of abortion, the glories of euthanasia, the glories of a suiciding peasantry, the glories of the Provisional IRA, the Continuity IRA, the Real IRA, the New IRA, the Vaguely Heterosexual IRA, and our true enlightened rulers in the Kinahane skang gang, the Hutch skang gang, the McCarthy Dundon skang gang, and serial killer Larry Murphy's family coven skang gang. All hail noble Padraic Pearse. Death to all who would question the revolution of 1916. Death to all who do not wish to finance RTE's holy agenda through a compulsory licence fee. Death to all who wish a reasoned discussion on the revolution of Padraic Pearse and his fellow holy murderers. Death to all who want free speech. No free speech for those we deem traitors. Death to all who believe in the Hebrew God. Death to all who advocate love of neighbour. You will not hold us back. Ireland is free. Free at last. Free to impoverish its citizens by forcing them to bail out an IRA controlled front operation styled Anglo Irish Bank. This is the true freedom that noble Leader Padraic Pearse has given us. On your knees slaves. Allah u akbar. Allah u akbar. Allah u akbar. Ein reich, ein volk, ein fuhrer. Land. Peace. Bread.

(Fade out to sound of Benny Hill music.)

the ghosts and the darkness

In the town of Newbridge near where I live, six people have died in unusual circumstances in the past two weeks.
A suicide cluster supposedly.
The deaths are not being reported in our newspapers or on radio or on television.
The dots are not being joined up.
Irish police tend to use any indicator of suicide as an excuse to do nothing.
Irish prosecutors on the rare occasions when they bother to review such cases, tend to do nothing anyway.
Irish judges have been corrupted by the IRA.
I say this.
If drug gangs terrorise someone and that person kills himself, his death is not suicide.
It is murder.
My sources assert that at least two of the deaths in Newbridge involved gangland.
So they're murders not suicides.
Murders at the hands of IRA mentored skang gangs who have seized control of towns and villages across Ireland.
Secret brotherhoods of evil in our midst deciding on a whim who may live and who may die.
The gangs have turned Ireland into a gilded execution chamber.
They hook our children on drugs.
They terrorise whole communities with impunity.
And they murder for sport.

the crunch question

(celebrating the 1916 Rising with the Heelers Diaries)

Question: Wouldn't it be great if they held a 1916 commemoration ceremony and nobody came?

Answer: Yes.