I was listening to todays Broadcasting House programme on Radio 4 and it had an interview with Arthur Burton-Garbett now at the ripe old age of 72yrs was a pursuer of one of the failed London Bombers of 2005.
As I was listenning to him he was asked a few interesting questions and then he said [and yes, I did replay the programme so that I could pick and choose my quotes] “the bible says ‘an eye for an eye’ and ‘you should pay for it‘” as one long quote – I have here added bold and italic – when he was asked about the sentencing of the terrorists to justify his keen edge of evil – he would like to see them executed rather than pay for them to stay in prison so at the age of 60 or so they can rejoin society.
But, if I recall correctly – no-one died in 2005 due to these poor folk who couldn’t strike up, and to be perfectly honest the forensics said they had to ‘treat’ the main explosive so that when they tested it it was explosive… so exactly what ‘eye’ are we requiring of them Mr Burton-Garbett? Should we make them clean up a subway carriage as what they managed to do was spread some gunk around the place – would that not do? After all the saying is not ‘an eye for an hypothetical eye…‘
But he, heroic though he may have been is guilty of sloppy thinking and a vindictiveness that shows his life values – he just wants to have fun and part of that being safe knowing he can get his kicks till he dies for this is what he said about his belief or faith – ‘…we’re born and one day we’re going to die, you just got to enjoy the interval…’ his cry for the death sentence is born out of having no real value on life as it is – it is only to be valued as the enjoyment you get out of it at any particular time and a belief that other folk have to look after their own enjoyment – he would rather be able to play bingo than pay taxes to allow those four misguided guys have another chance even though he also says “No man is beyond redemption.” he would rather not give them their opportunity to live free again.
I have met folk who called themselves christians purely because they were born in the UK – going to church was something other folk, the religious nutters did, not them because by chance of birth they have been given the promised land. I wonder if our bible misquoting hero is one of these who would unselfconsciously deem themselves ‘good’ while thinking only of themselves. Whether or not he knows what he is, and let’s give him the benefit of the doubt here –
In the end he hides behind the bible when it is plain he does not believe in it – Judaism nor Christianity are excuses for his hedonistic beliefs about how he should live his life, but he’s willing to use it to justify his belief in ending someone else’s.
it makes us IT-friends I assume
yes I will do that. Sometimes really interesting issus debates
I can give you two now, and no, I would not tell you “how bad”… It`s is always better to focus on the good things. Dont you think?
1. Jag heter Free to Think
2. Free to Think
Greetings sofia
My name is Fri till Tanka?
at least when I’m blogging….
Very good Free to think,
just a few minor mistake, I would use “att” instead of “till”. The other m do I think depends on your computer. It should be “tänka” not tanka. But I guess you have an keybord for english letter “å ä and ö” are so swedish hahaha so you right about that
Yes I know what you mean. We can be free to think on the internet, but not in the same way in our lifes.
Yes I do extra “legwork” now when you are such a nice gay and leave comment on my blog
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About an eye for an eye, Jesus did say we should “turn?” the other cheek.
I have a hard time to do that myself, but that`s what he sad
To an extent that was why I was so fired up to write this piece… I have also sent off a message to Broadcasting House to that affect as well…
It sometimes annoys me when folk say that being a christian is easy…
On another note – lifes=lives and ‘gay’ did originally mean ‘happy’ and ‘care-free’ but the homosexual lobby liked it so much they pinched it – so now it generally means ‘Homosexual’ because nobody wanted to have that inferred of them they abandoned the original usage and the battle over what it means has long since died…
So, hopefully, you meant ‘happy’ or you misspelt ‘guy’?
It’s just I don’t think the wife would like it if you got the wrong idea, or maybe she might…
ah thank you for correcting me, I need that
yes I know, the dictionay just have the words, not the grama. I use a dictionary a lot my self as you probebly can se, so I know about this issue, hahaha
I understand, then I meant happy,
We do have a problem in sweden, we can`talk about homosex… If it`s not in a very positiv way. We are forbidden by law acctually. In sweden gaypeople counts as an etnical group?
It`s fun to write in a nother L. It is a bit difficult but I learn someting new every day. It`s really good training.
OK so you live in UK, nice, then I have visiting your country many times some year ago.
In London you have the headquater for God-TV. Do you know about them?
No I menat in sweden we have extra letters like “å, ä, and ö” but on your keybord you haven`t. So when you write think in swedish you write “tanka” instead of “tänka” Do you see what I mean?