This weeks Quantum looks at the visit of Donald Trump , including Sadiq Khan’s response, and the commemoration of D-Day…
Next week, the Tory government will roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump. A President who is destroying all the values that have always united Britain and America. Join me and thousands of others in Trafalgar Square next Tuesday @ 11 am to #StopTrump pic.twitter.com/csBDpi9npy
— Emily Thornberry (@EmilyThornberry) May 31, 2019
https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/04/debate-night-reflections-trump-and-strathclyde-uni/
Tiananmen Square. – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42465516
3) Praying for the President. – David Platt
https://www.mcleanbible.org/prayer-president
4) Hope not Hate – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48488732 –
A Trump supporter is milkshaked by a hostile crowd in Parliament Square.
And then it all kicks off…@LBC #TrumpVisit #trumpprotests pic.twitter.com/p2l5573fCG
— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) June 4, 2019
6) Sudan – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-48505400/sudan-crisis-security-forces-attack-protesters
7) How many atheists are there? What do they believe?
9) Florence Nightingale –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz3qx
10) Cricket – Afghanistan
Liverpool – Kloop – https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-juergen-klopp-keeps-smiling-through-triumph-and-disaster-7dw7chd89?
fbclid=IwAR2g7twpuSpmxBfwC7Cbpi2F257cy2ekcLvLc561v5I3moVMfBejgyWdgBM
12) A.S.K – https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/05/in-conversation-with-andy-bannister-a-s-k-and-australia/
Quote of the week –
Stephen Hawking – Heaven is a fairy story for those afraid of the dark
John Lennox – Atheism is a fairy story for those afraid of the light.
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Will not support this at all,I believe Trump is doing his best and that God walks with him !!!!
But thats the problem Karen – by their fruits you shall know them. As the President he should be honoured and respected. But noone should claim he is a Christian – he made his money out of gambling, he used to support abortion (until political expediency meant he officially changed), he has a horrific attitude towards women, he lies and he shows no evidence of any fruit of the Spirit, or indeed any understanding of basic Christianity. Evangelical Christians are just voting fodder for him. I do pray for him, and I pray he will be converted…but I won’t proclaim him as the Christian president – just for political reasons.
David, thank you for your blog. It is a wonderful resource and helpful in reflecting on so many important issues.
On listening to a reflection on the week’s events on Radio Scotland, one of the contributors drew our attention to a speech given by President Reagan in 1984 at Ponte du Hoc as part of the fortieth anniversary commemorations of D Day. He promoted it as a contrast to the overblown pomp of the recent 75th events. There was a dignified simplicity and respect in the unpretentious backdrop and the power of beautifully crafted speechwriting and delivery.
The religious references are particularly moving and powerful and I thought I would draw your attention to it if you haven’t yet had the chance to watch it.
It can be easily found on YouTube.
Clearly, neither Emily Thornberry nor Jeremy Corbyn want to be in government. You can only play the role of the political agititor when you think that you are never actuially going to be in government. Both of them must believe that at no time will they be placed in a position where they are having to deal with President Trump as leading members of a UK Government.