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An honest and brave thought for today. There is no doubt that God abbors evil and yet it is rife throughout the world.Whilst God abors evil the strange and wonderful thing is that he loves the perpetrator. Perhaps tommorrows Thought for Today should say this and speak about Gods answer to evil?
John Hughes
Wed Jul 15 10:57:42 2009

Today was the funeral of my father in law and whilst driving to Newcastle airport to collect a relation who was attending the service I happened to catch Thought for the Day, it happened to be Lionel Blue. It has often been said that my father in law sounds very like Lionel Blue and in today’s thought Lionel talked about voluntary organisations such as “our Macmillan nurses and our best contribution to Europe since the second world war, the hospices for people beyond ordinary curative care”. Both these organisations helped care for him in his last days.He also talked about life after death, a concept my father in law had difficulty coming to terms with. Lionel’s philosophy of “For me death isn't the end and I believe in a beyond life but not an afterlife because, when we die, time and space die with us so there is no after or before” would have been a great comfort to him and is a great comfort to his family now.I found it very prophetic to catch this piece this morning.Thank you Lionel.
Doug Blake - Newcastle upon Tyne
Mon Jul 6 22:47:41 2009

Why dont we leave the dead where they belong with the respect they deserve for a well-deserved RIP ad infinitum ?Teresa of Lisieux would be turning in her grave to be paraded in a Protestant York Minster which, during the Elizabethan Settlement lynched so many Roman Catholics. All these mawkish displays of sentimental piety are a sad display of misplaced faith. The Turn Shroud has been scientifically proved and carbon-dated to be a medieval forgery. No 5th Gospel this ! English Reformation, where art thou ? The world has need of thee now. Is this what the Reformers died for ?Are we indeed living in the 21st century ?O tempora ! O mores !
Susan, Surbiton
Mon Jul 6 07:53:16 2009

Worship or emotional contact towards any material possession is in my opinion a seriously dangerous thing and moves the person away from spirituality and more towards materialism. Ancient books could be venerated as they have important ethics within them that could help you improve your life but statues, charms and religious items could lead to unhappiness and in my opinion are less an appearance of religious faith or spirituality and more vanity or in some cases an obscene use of wealth.
Ste - Manchester
Sun Jul 5 09:58:45 2009

Society is usually wrong - which is why government systems exist. Perfection is diverse and only an individual can decide if it meets his standard
john alex
Sat Jun 27 15:35:21 2009

Please tell your speaker on TFTD 26th June that the reason I don't wear a burqa is NOT because I want to be sexy. I have to say her argument about the cultural relative values place on women was specious and trite. The burqa is not an antidote to the gross sexism of the commercial world, two wrongs don't make a right.
elaine london
Fri Jun 26 08:23:51 2009

This kind of platitudinous claptrap takes my breath away. There is so much unquestioned received wisdom and poor thinking in this 'Thought for the Day' that I am astounded that this person and others like him are invited to air their patronising and poorly thought-out views to the nation. All acts, however laudable to the vast majority of the population, which, in the case of the kidney donor, includes me, are driven by our desire to live up, or down to, our values. Therefore, all acts are, by definition, selfish. Every person satisfies their own emotional needs, whether they are axe murders or martyrs; the difference in the results they are achieve is driven by the values they espouse. The word 'sacrifice' is mis-used, as usual, it does not mean giving up something at our expense, it means giving up something for something else of greater importance to us so could we please stop using this word in the 'look how good I am/they are' manner in which it is usually used and grow up! Sacrifice, as used by the vast majority of the population gives birth to that most pernicious of behaviour-modifiers - emotional blackmail.
Richard Jackson Mancroft International Norwich
Thu Jun 25 12:24:07 2009