VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Brian Draper, Associate lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130131.html][img=images/2013/01/pic130131.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Brian here, in Southampton, an associate lecturer at the [url=http://www.licc.org.uk/about-licc]London Institute for Contemporary Christianity[/url] where we envision and equip Christians and their churches for whole-life missionary discipleship in the world, seek to serve them with biblical frameworks, practical resources, training and models so that they flourish as followers of Jesus and grow as whole-life disciplemaking communities. 

Hi.

The British stiff upper lip is stopping them [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21242871]getting early cancer diagnoses[/url].

This sinful lack of humility, this pride, this ego, this unwillingness to appear weak or bothersome, is causing thousands of lives to be lost prematurely.

It's exactly the same with the Invisible Magic Friend. People seem to think they can be happy, kind, generous and thoughtful without the Invisible Magic Friend. Well you can't. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_God]A famous author[/url] says so, so I must be right.

I'd just like to say the word "existential". Nobody really knows what it means but it lends a certain authority to anything that it prefixes and is guaranteed to sound very clever indeed. Feel free to use it at dinner parties.

I haven't mentioned Jesus yet. Jesus is the spiritual doctor you need to cure you of your spiritual sickness. Not going to Jesus to cure you of your spiritual cancer is every bit as prideful as not going to your doctor to cure your body's cancer.

Who would have though that Jesus was so relevant to British reluctance over cancer diagnoses. Isn't Jesus just fantastic!

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