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• Homage to George Orwell: BBC statue wins planning permission
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• George Orwell has won planning permission to return – as a lifesize bronze statue – to the BBC, which he left on bad terms in 1943 snarling that his work there as a talks producer “was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result”.
• This time he won’t cost the public a penny: all the money for the first public statue honouring the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm has been raised from private donors, through a trust founded by the late Labour MP Ben Whitaker.
• Westminster city council has granted planning permission for the sculpture, which will be sited among the corporation’s smokers who tend to congregate at the entrance to New Broadcasting House. They will further be challenged by the quotation inscribed on the wall behind him: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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• In 1945, George Orwell wrote an introduction to “Animal Farm.” It was not printed, and remained unknown till now. It appears here under Orwell's title:
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• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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• I think this famous bloke has a point...
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• As a moderate, conservative Reformed theologian and philosopher of religion; my belief in fallen, corrupted, sinful, nature (Genesis, Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, as examples) means that I do not have an intellectual difficulty reasoning that throughout history and today, certain groups and individuals have been abused by other groups and individuals.
• Even so, the New Testament, in particular, mentions that there is judgement for each member of humanity post-mortem (Revelation 20-22, perhaps general for all of humanity, but at least the unregenerate, 2 Corinthians 5: 10, for those within the Christian Church).
• Philosophically, I reason that where human consciousness, thoughts, will and acts/actions are not forced or coerced, significant human, moral accountability exists.
• I have a private Facebook chat group called Against Forced Isms.
• One of the views, I, and my friends, promote within Against Forced Isms is that even though Isms within the western world are often used against a person, as a biblical Christian, theologically, one is still morally accountable for responses to such Isms, and within such Isms.
• Isms which might be at times, evils against he/she, does not exclude the fact that he/she too can commit evils.
• Based on the documented New Testament judgement (s) and theology, all of humanity, that has a brain and mind capable of being morally accountable will still face judgement for his/her life, regardless of how much he/she has been abused by others.
• Thankfully, human sin is covered when one is regenerated (John 3, Titus 3) through gospel work of Jesus Christ on the cross, applied to believers.
• Those within the atoning and resurrection work of Jesus Christ, post-mortem, eventually toward resurrection and everlasting life (Revelation 20-22, 2 Corinthians 5, 1-2 Thessalonians, as examples).
• Those outside of Jesus Christ, post-mortem in stages of everlasting damnation (Luke 16, Revelation 20-22, as examples).
• Hebrews 2: 17 King James Version (KJV)
17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
• In other words, even though many of us are victims in life; it is not theologically correct to view self as simply a victim that is not guilty of error, evil, and sin.
• The is true corporately and privately. For groups and individuals.
• A human being is judged for his/her life, his/her deeds (Revelation 20, 2 Corinthians 5: 10).
• Even though others most certainly affect a human being's consciousness, thoughts, will, acts/actions; a person is not primarily judged, post-mortem, based on the deeds of others.
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• The often held view of 'deserving' someone with similar attributes and social status is a significantly poisonous concept within romantic relationships.
• Theologically, we deserve hell, with those in the Church, in Jesus Christ, being saved by grace through faith alone (Ephesians 2, Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, as examples).
• Actual human needs, such as a mate, desired by most people, are not deserved if one should actually be separated from God, his goodness and the good he provides.
• A more accurate, biblical view is to seek mutual spiritual, intellectual and physical, attraction.
