In this weeks Quantum we look at the death and significance of Ozzy Osbourne; Danny Kruger’s Speech to Parliament; King Charles and Islam; Christopher Hitchens warning about Islam; The Epping Protests; Australian Government pays mothers to kill their babies; the health benefits of coffee; Hulk Hogan; England v Italy womens football; The Argentinian economic miracle; Ireland’s record abortion figures; Country of the week Cambodia; Thai/Cambodian war threat; Children voting in the UK; Kathleen Madigan on being Catholic; The Chinese Church and Surveillance; Some reflections on the life and ministry of John Macarthur; Amazing Grace – the Film; Final Word – Ephesians 2:8-10; with music from Black Sabbath, Khmer music and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
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Unfortunately due to an IT issue I couldn’t attend me local church service today – so I listened to part of your podcast instead.
I note you ask for contributions so here are few:
Are you happy with the use of the word “barbarian” by Mr Hutchins?
Related to this have you any comments on the findings of the University of Edinburgh investigations into its history as an institution?
Could you supply more evidence re the shocking assertion that women are being paid to abort children? The information you supply suggest that these are evil people in the same league as high earners who employ specialists to help them avoid paying tax, exploiting loopholes in the law for their own benefits.
Could you please check your facts re the police giving lifts to protesters? The evidence suggests that this is yet another fabrication emanating from the Reform Party.
The Satanist was Mr Crowley not Crowther – though anyone watching “Crackerjack” may have different opinions.
Very interesting how death makes everyone an acceptable person eg the eulogies paid to Mr Tebbit. I never thought I’d hear a reverend discussing Mr Osbourne in terms.
Where does coffee consumption stand in terms of “three score years and ten”?
Thanks Iain – much appreciated….quick responses
Are you happy with the use of the word “barbarian” by Mr Hutchins? – Yes
Related to this have you any comments on the findings of the University of Edinburgh investigations into its history as an institution? – Not really as I havn’t read them though. Although I suspect they are just driven
Could you supply more evidence re the shocking assertion that women are being paid to abort children? The information you supply suggest that these are evil people in the same league as high earners who employ specialists to help them avoid paying tax, exploiting loopholes in the law for their own benefits. – Sure there is plenty evidence – try this for a start – https://x.com/ProfJoannaHowe/status/1949810658255720816
Could you please check your facts re the police giving lifts to protesters? The evidence suggests that this is yet another fabrication emanating from the Reform Party. You can’t just say that – provide ‘the evidence’. The report is from the Telegraph (and various YouTube videos showing this happening) not Reform.
The Satanist was Mr Crowley not Crowther – though anyone watching “Crackerjack” may have different opinions. – Thanks for the correction….
Very interesting how death makes everyone an acceptable person eg the eulogies paid to Mr Tebbit. I never thought I’d hear a reverend discussing Mr Osbourne in terms.All human beings are complex….
Where does coffee consumption stand in terms of “three score years and ten”? Supposed to add 14%. I doubt it…
Who can throw stones at Grace Community Church? Your list of matters of Grace Community Church abuse sadly reads little different than, say Sydney Anglican cases exposed by the Royal Commission Into Institutional Child Abuse.
Pastor Macarthur stands out for me as one who had very solid teaching on why his church stayed open during COVID-19 lockdown. Nearly every other church limply inflicted their congregants with “Zoom” church staying closed while the local bottle-o and brothel opened as “essential services”.
Please stop with the ‘who can throw stones’ rhetoric everytime someone you like is criticised. We are not to judge those outside the church (throw stones at them)….we are to judge those inside – especially leaders – in order to prevent abuse and heresy.
The comparison is with Sydney Anglicans is not valid. If the Archbishop of Sydney had covered up abuse – or ordered that a woman go back to her abusive husband – then the same criticism would apply.
No one is saying that Pastor Macarthur got everything wrong, or indeed most things wrong. Just because he was right on covid, does not excuse when he was wrong.
Hi David,
I’m not very tech savvy so I’m not sure how to contact you besides posting here. My daughter recently returned a book to me I had lent her and it occurred to me you might like to read it. It is “ The Naked Darwin” by John Simpson.
Thank you for sharing your faith so boldly.
Yours in Christ
Tim Oltman
Thanks Tim….theweeflea@gmail.com
What I find fascinating is that in a world where science is supposed to be about hypothesis testing of theories is that Darwinism seems to be accepted as a fact rather than just a theory. I think the disease cancer ( and a few others) pose serious challenges to evolutionary theories yet scientists like Mr Attenborough continue to propound the theory as fact. Extremely concerning.
Was reading about Osborne on a German site. Here is an excerpt, translated:
“The members of Black Sabbath are rightly considered the grandfathers of heavy metal—music as an expression of real pain. Their sound: dark, powerful, disturbing. Their themes: fear, death, religion, the end times. This wasn’t a pose, but an attempt to make inner devastation audible. It wasn’t a protest against authority, but rather a subconscious struggle against the trauma of their parents’ generation, against coldness and silence. What separated parents and children remained nameless—but suddenly resonated loudly.
Other rock bands of the era also reflected this inner conflict—combined with an indictment of institutions perceived as cold and empty. Pink Floyd, with “Another Brick in the Wall” (1979), made school a symbol of a system that breaks the spirit. “We don’t need no education” was an indictment of aimless pedagogy.
Bands like The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and King Crimson addressed the tension between liberation and disorientation in their own way. Pain, the search, and distrust of institutions united many. Norms were suddenly seen as coercion, hierarchies as a threat, and any order as a source of suspicion. But instead of liberation, a vacuum emerged: without transcendent orientation, the trauma remained untouched.
The scream became a prayer
What began as a cathartic provocation became a cultural dissolution of boundaries – with long-term consequences that we experience today in identity confusion and normative dissolution. The current confusion – visible in gender debates, role dissolution, linguistic censorship, and narcissistic self-presentation – does not arise from a genuine need for diversity, but is the late product of an unhealed collective trauma. What once began as a necessary break with psychological repression has become a permanent social insecurity – politically exploitable for division, control, and mobilization. Perhaps this precisely explains why so many people who claim to be progressive today respond to every authoritarian temptation – only under a different guise. Black Lives Matter, gender ideology, rainbow flags as symbols of sovereignty, the militant Antifa, and even the silent admiration for left-wing dictatorships: all of this appears like freedom, but is often only a reflex – an unconscious longing for order that denies its true source. For the natural, divine order is considered obsolete today. Anyone who speaks its language is viewed with suspicion.
The present seeks freedom and order simultaneously – but in the wrong place: in prohibitions, language rules, ritualized outrage, and artificial affiliations that act like substitute religions. This is the tunnel that Osbourne, unknowingly, helped to dig: his play with darkness was a loud attempt to process the unspoken words of his parents’ generation. Unfortunately, some things fell apart in the process.
But Osbourne, dubbed the “Prince of Darkness,” was more than just the dark prophet of his generation. In later years, his pose broke – revealing a man who had embraced pain. “Changes,” his duet with his daughter Kelly, became a reversal: the scream became a prayer. The noise gave way to silence. Perhaps this is the path our culture must also take: away from defiance, toward humility, away from posturing, toward truth.
The emptiness is visible today. The search for stability is lost in political substitute religions. Even authoritarian systems suddenly appear as guarantors of order – because we lack meaning.
Look into Ozzy’s face. It speaks of a generation that felt the trauma but couldn’t heal. Ozzy is no hero. He is a victim of history—and we are with him. The West will only be free again when it recognizes this—and is allowed to speak the truth again instead of drowning it out with noise.”
I forgot to add, what lends credence for me to the Germans’ thesis is that I saw an interview once with Peter Townsend where he said exactly the same thing, that when the children of the war generation tried to ask their parents about their experiences, they never wanted to talk about it, leading to a disconnect between the generations and the children, as well as the adults, becoming traumatised from being unable to relate to their parents, who woukd maintain a wall of silence. Townsend claimed the “deaf, dumb and blind” aspect of his rock opera, Tommy was speaking about this.
An interesting podcast, however I must point out that the age of marriage in Scotland is 16 not 18. As is unfortunately too often the case, English media and politicians often speak about “British” or “UK law” and there is no such thing, Scotland having its own separate legal system.