Responding to people, especially Christians, who don’t get “It”, and what is “It”?

Let me begin by asking you, dear reader, a question, before I attempt to answer my own and get on to my response. In the past week, we have learned of the assassination of Charlie Kirk (see here for my thoughts), the Tommy Robinson “Unite the Kingdom” rally (see here for my thoughts) and now we are on to Donald Trump’s still ongoing state visit of the UK (see here for what I wrote about his last visit to the UK) (all my “see heres” are pertinent, btw). My question is: what have all these events got in common?

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Some personal reflections as a result of yesterday’s “Uniting the Kingdom” London event

Yesterday a huge event was held in London under the title “Uniting the Kingdom”, discussed by the BBC under the headline “Dozens of officers injured as up to 150,000 join Tommy Robinson rally” (see here). It has been well reported and misreported (e.g. by the BBC) and it has attracted all sorts of disaffected “far right, racists” (according to some reports) intent on causing havoc and venting their grievances because of things like immigration, free speech and loss of British identity with, depending who you read, anywhere between 100,000 and three million people in attendance.

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Tommy Robinson is a hero

Tommy Robinson, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for breaching an injunction by repeating libellous claims he made about a 15-year-old refugee, Jamal Hijazi. Jamal was filmed being assaulted in a playground attack at his school, before Robinson made a series of false claims about him. Musk’s call to free Robinson is ignorant, self-serving and dangerous”.

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