Tony Blair Gives His Life to Religion

Just read this news article here called "Blair gives his life to religion"

The article says Tony Blair is hoping to make his Faith Foundation into a global foundation. The article quotes Tony Blair saying, "I see this over time as the rest of my life's work."

Blair claims that his Tony Blair Faith Foundation is not meant to meld all religions into a world religion, but I think it's quite possible that his Faith Foundation will be just one more step toward making a world religion a reality some day.

Earth Hour-One hour of darkness

Believe me, I really am all for turning out my lights before I leave the house, not wasting electricity, and turning the tap off while I brush my teeth.

But consciously turning off my lights for one hour with the rest of the world in honour of Earth Hour? Something just seems weird and wrong about that.

I know I'm being cynical again. It's just that it being called "Earth Hour" sounds almost like a "let's take an hour to turn off the lights in the world to remember "mother Earth", as if the earth's a person. And yes, this supposedly has to do with "global warming".

On earthhour.org, it mentions Earth Hour being a "global movement". Go figure. Nearly all talk nowadays is "global" talk.

'Professor' Blair-on a global coalition

Here is my interesting political news tidbit of the day. And it has to do with Tony Blair.

Tony Blair will be teaching a course on faith and globalization, looking at religion in the modern world, at Yale University. But before he starts at Yale, he will launch his Faith Foundation. Read about that all here. Yes, that's the same Yale that wrote and published that letter about Muslims and Christians loving God together, which you can read all about in this post and this post.

And yesterday, Tony Blair gave a speech in Dallas about a 'global coalition' built on 'global values' that is needed. Read about that here

Dalai Lama Willing to Break Tradition

I often skim bbc news to see what is happening around different parts of the world, and yesterday and today I've discovered a few articles related to the dalai lama and his deciding how to choose his successor.

Now, I'm not sure what all this means with respect to what's happening in the rest of the world's religions, but it is definitely interesting. The dalai lama has stated that there is
the possibility of himself naming a new Dalai Lama while he is still alive, a proposal he outlined in Japan last week, according to BBC news. He has also said ten years ago that if Tibet was still occupied when he died then his reincarnation would not be born under Chinese control but in the free world. (also from BBC news).

Click here to read this article.

As far as I know, traditionally, the Buddhist elite leaders choose, through visions and such, the successor for the dalai lama, who is a child born around the time of the lama's death. But like I mentioned before, the current dalai lama is willing to break tradition and perhaps hand-pick the next one. He has not mentioned, to my knowledge, whether or not the next one must be a child. But he has stated that the next one does not have to be Tibetan or Chinese...hmmm..interesting, I think. Could the antichrist also appear to be the reincarnated "dalai lama" for Tibetan Buddhists? Of course I don't know the answer to this, but I think all the buzz about this breaking tradition thing is interesting.

But, I have been reminded through God's Word that as Christians we aren't supposed to look for the tribulation, but for the "blessed hope", our Savior Jesus. So, therefore, I will leave you with this encouraging verse for us believers.

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18