Talking about love, love is love, and the Left's professed love of all sorts: diversity in everything, including culture, sexual practices, religion etc, a school in Birmingham, UK, has just stopped teaching LGBT tripe because 80% of its students have been withdrawn in protest.

The head teacher, who has received honours from the Queen for teaching, introduced his ratty course in a school which is 98% Muslim. How about that! Is he real? Hasn't he, himself, learned anything from running a school whose children and parents are 98% Muslim?

No wonder Britain is no longer a democracy that cannot, or does not want to regain its sovereignty. Lal la land doesn't begin to describe the place.

Dear God,

Please remove from my mind the tendency to judge.

Please remove from my mind the tendency to hate.

Please remove from my mind the tendency to blame.

Please reveal to me, Lord, a way to stand in my power,
through love instead of fear, and through peace instead
of violence.

May I hear not the voice for anger, but only the voice
for love.

And teach me, dear Lord, how not to hate those who hate
me.

Transform all darkness into light, dear God,
and use my mind as an instrument of Your harmlessness.

I surrender to You my thoughts of violence.

Take these thoughts, Lord, and wash them clean.

Thank You very much.

Amen.

I tend to think much like Yuyutsu on this. It was a command by Jesus about how we as individuals treat people we run into, not how much foreign aid is given out. In saying that I believe Foreign aid is a good thing if spent well. The other obvious thing is that in general the West have treated neighbours much much better than those who never adopted a Judea Christian ethic. It is obvious by the hoards that want to immigrate here that we treat strangers much better than most. Socialist and Islamic nations genrally treat outsiders very badly.

'Hordes', Runner :)

I enjoy the Good Samaritan parable too - that one helps someone else who is NOT of one's own group, that one puts oneself at cost or danger to help a fellow-human being.

Conversely but in the same spirit, some people lay down their lives for others in order to defeat a vile common enemy, as the Kurds have been doing for some years in relation to ISIS. How many Kurds have been killed fighting ISIS ? I've seen a figure of ten thousand. How many Americans have been killed in Syria fighting ISIS, or otherwise deceased ? Eight.

Who protected the Yazidis ? The Kurds. Who protected the Mandeans ? The Kurds ? Who betrayed the Kurds ? That bit of filth, trump.

I remember that young Australian bloke who went to fight with the Kurds and was killed. A hero, a genuine Good Samaritan. I don't think he was even paid, certainly not by the US. To that bit of filth trump, that would have been the key motivation: to that bit of filth, the world is a slut that you can buy any time you like.

'Love thy neighbour' and the good Samaritan parable, shouldn't ever be put in the same paragraph as that slime, with his 'grab them by the pussy', 'buy whoever you like' philosophy. I look forward to links being uncovered between that turd and Jeffrey Epstein.

Joe

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I saw an interesting street message doing my footing this morning that somebody painted on the footpath on the way up the hill to the Sacré Coeur in Montmartre. I thought I should share it with you - at least, my (rather poor) English version of it :

The refugees
observe from their boats
people relaying the baton of inhumanity
from country to country
as they seek refuge
(signed: The State of the Beggars)

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Dear Banjo,

Thank You for that. So sad.

Here's another piece of graffiti - Australian
style:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
My country's for me
And not for you
But if by chance
You'll take my place
I'll take my fist
And smash your face.

Again - sad.