Ashamed to be a called a Christian

I am ashamed to be called a Christian tonight.

Strong words indeed.

Please check this out

It is, quite simply, one of the most painful things I have ever had to watch on TV. And I know it is not fictional reporting. Trainers from this organisation have told me of similar things.

I wept and wept.

There are really no words of my own to explain how I feel about what I saw. The pain and misery on a child's face as a man, face full of hate, on camera, tells her he is going to machete her. She is about 6 years old.

Lord, Lord forgive us. Church, cry out a lament that such things happen in our name.
Liberty Films "End of the Wicked" is used as propaganda from village to village to turn adults against children "scream through the night; show signs of fever or a tendency towards ill health". This means, they claim, that they are witches. Pastors teach this as truth to be actioned. Children are tortured and killed. They are separated from their parents and abandoned, or worse. What must go through the child's mind as this harm is done to them?

In truth, the only comfort I find just now is in the words of Jesus in Matthew 18:
verse 10 "See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven."


and in Lamentations 2:19 - a reminder that the Lord hears our cries in prayer for the abandoned children:
Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children,
who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

Consider writing to the Nigerian government to complain. According to the documentary, no pastors have been imprisoned for inciting child abuse, as yet.

Can't wait..............

Tomorrow a friend is lending me Series 5...............
I'm picking it up at 1000 hrs precisely....................

24

I, our office manager and our administrator are SERIOUSLY obsessed by 24.
I'm on Series 4.
Office Manager is on Series 5.
Cupcake, I mean, Martha, has seen Series 4 but needs to catch up with my series 3 (she likes to be different)

We're finding ways of bringing Jack-Bauer-speak into the daily routine of office life.
I am finding my imagination is running riot.
* I could ask J to patch me through the coordinates of the family I've to visit.
* She and I decided my hairclip contains a secret recording device to actually prove once and for all Who IS Responsible For Our Church Website.
* We could request satellite realignment and thermal imaging of the south side of the city to track down the Senior Pastor's whereabouts
* just as we see someone return to church after a long absence, they will be bundled into a car and driven away at high speed, with a Pastoral Leader in hot pursuit to win them back to the family of God (successfully of course) .......

How else could the Christian Church benefit from a Jack Bauer? :-)
There's something of the Quosh-Injustice -Let's -Take-Action about him! He's a subversive!

Spooks

The title of this post is not about etheral beings but about a BBC TV programme.

I adore this programme but I have a difficulty with it - in separating fiction from reality! This weekend's two- parter showed homegrown atrocities being carried out in order to destabilise the government and the public; to remove the Prime Minister from power and to take control of the media and the judical system.

I'm a bit child-like in this regard; my mind and emotions are so fully engaged that I gasp as I watch as I realise that this could be why Tony Blair is going to resign. Oh, no, it's only TV.....

Films that engaged me COMPLETELY (man, I was living them!)
Schindlers List
Cinema Paradiso
Room With A View
The Big Blue
Dead Man Walking
Mississipi Burning

Films that were wasted on me:
Syriana - eh???
The Royal Tenenbaums
Being John Malcovich
Mission Impossible 1,2,3,4,x,y,z

What films draw you in; make you forget reality and during which films would you trim your toenails? :-)