Although it is with much regret that the proposed Oxford centre for
animal experimentation goes ahead, we pray that ultimately this building
will be used as a noble centre for humane research. For the fact is that
no lasting good can come out of mean, miserable, cruel and grotesque
practices. Such must surely be the belief of all who believe in a
morally just, caring and loving God who has planted a little of His
character within even the least worthy of His subjects!
We may not be united in calling the great upholder of this universe
Jesus Of Nazareth. We might prefer to identify Him with Buddha, Krishna
or Allah. But one thing is sure: the enlightened followers of the
world’s major religions believe that what ever one sows for good or evil
is what one will reap back. Consequently, I would not ‘for even all the
money in the world’ want to be in the shoes of short sighted vivisectors
whose practices are blunting the finer qualities of mankind and turning
them from being courteous Dr Jeckels in to laboratory Hydes. Bit by bit,
and hardly noticeable to themselves the practice of having primates
caught in the wild, put in to sanitized and cramped confinement to
endure an hourly existence of mental torture and then, drawn out,
physical pain, is something that no civilised human could condone –
unless, he or she has been conditioned over the years through a gradual
growth of desensitisation. Yes, such as that which incubated and then
hatched a Mengelle, an Eichman and a Goebells - Doctors who practised
similar evils, before retiring daily to express ‘selective compassion’
to their families and domestic pets!
You have, of course, every right to disagree with me and oppose me to
the face. So far (but for how long I cannot tell you!) we can still
‘argue the toss’ until the cows come home. But as I see it – and I’m
certainly not alone here – Big Brother is becoming Big Bully, and with
subtlety and stealth the freedom those who died or were maimed for in
the past two World Wars will have been lost because our present
political regime is selling us out – hook line and sinker – to a
totalitarian and crooked European state. What we as a nation have
experienced since Magna Carta is under this present regime being taken
from under our noses! And few seem to know it as they exist in their
cocooned boxes; their offspring off to communal nurseries; and all later
‘advancement’ dependent on towing the line to a sordid secular state.
Ah well, as an increasingly fit 76 year old I’ll continue to speak
out and fight for God’s vulnerable! Like others of my age I’m happy to
have lived in eras when churches were often full, when Mum was a home
maker, where Dad earned the pennies, where children were disciplined as
well as deeply loved, where the house was a home and people stuck
together ‘for better or for worse’ because they’d made such promises to
God. Yes, an era when the Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh were
actually proud to sing Rule Britannia, Land of hope and glory, and –
quite incredibly – there’ll always be an England!
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