Chocolate Teapot

another gem by Robert Skynner.

As useless as a Chocolate Teapot.

Here in the United Kingdom (UK) due to political correctness emanating from all sectors of the government, we now have firepersons (I can't say fireman as it's a sexist term), who lack the strength to lift another person of slightly above average weight (16 stone). This lifting requirement used to be one of the standard entrance tests for all trainee firemen, as they had to be strong enough to demonstrate that they could carry an injured people out of burning buildings. However today under new British fire regulations a female fire person of small stature only has to be strong enough to life somebody her own weight which in one recent case was under 7 stone in the instant of a virtual female dwarf who wanted to be a fireperson! Also left-wing councils can still appoint lifeguards even if they are poor swimmers, as the life-guards assistant can now co-ordinating a rescue from the land by the lifeguard who actually can swim!

So in both cases the people appointed to such posts as firepersons and lifeguards must meet certain diversity and politically correct Gramskian-cultural Marxist ideals so beloved by left-wing local councils! No doubt under the guise of diversity, it's not rescuing the drowning person that's the important thing, but getting all the paper-work right and demonstrating that your not racist, sexist or homophobic. Frankly, if I was drowning and the assistant life-guard was a one-legged, man-hating, black lesbian, then I'd rather that I'd be allowed to drown in peace! As for my ever needing assistance from the local fire service in the event of a fire. Well as I live on the fourteen floor and so the last thing that I'd want to see would be a tiny miniature six foot long (toytown) fire engine staffed by dwarf female firefighters, who then holding a circle of cloth two feet of the ground then encourage me to jump from 140 feet!

But such people appointed to such life saving jobs are really just about as useless as a chocolate teapot if they can't perform basic functions necessary to the job such as swim well in the case of a life-guard or carry a heavy person in the case of fireman. Let me compare this to making tea in a teapot made out of chocolate. When you place boiling water inside it, the chocolate teapot will quickly melt and spill the hot water and the tea bags. Now look, I'm a Trinitarian, and like it or not it is we and not Oneness folk who have been regarded as orthodox for two thousand years. So if Oneness Pentecostals are now going to claim that Trinitarians are lost and going to hell, and I've heard many Oneness folk making this claim, then it's my observation that Apostolics who say this but then cowardly duck out of a mature and adult conversation where they defend this claim demonstrating a knowledge of the Greek as well as an understanding of grammar; are just as useless as a life-guard who struggles to swim or a fireperson who can't lift a injured person of average size out of a burning building. Frankly if you are Oneness yourself and you can't intelligently refer to both the Greek and grammar to make a good case for the baptismal formula being 'Lord Jesus Christ.' Then in my opinion your just about as useless as a chocolate teapot and you might as well pack up your religion and admit that you are really just as uneducated as the Jehovah's Witnesses who like Oneness Pentecostals will also condemn all Trinitarians as heretics, but then run away when challenged to prove their claims fairly and in open discussion just as 1st Peter 3:15 commands us to do.

Written by a former Oneness Pentecostal.

I feel the same here. I will say this. When I was in the 1PC churches I was told not to study that stuff because it was dangerous. Being as naive as I was at that time I believed the man behind the pulpit. I see now it is because 1PC is new. The Christian teachings are old. they want to keep me in the faith so they do not want me to learn about the past. - Jym