If you do not understand that the level of deception, delusion, lying, dissimulation and level of craftiness is probably at an all time high in the world today, you should not be in a position of national leadership if you want your nation and culture to survive. Otherwise you will be swept along with the tide like everyone else. But perhaps on the other hand we get the leaders we deserve.
The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public life has been in the headlines recently. This august body has just announced its recommendations for the place of Christianity in our nation, basically a serious downgrade since we are now a multicultural society that needs to go worship at the altar of ‘all religions and lifestyles are equal.’ Is this the last gasp of the politically correct ‘fun monster’ that has been consuming all in its path for the last few decades before a possible miraculous renaissance of our nation, or is it that same monster determined to crush under its steam roller any last vestiges of robust tradition left in these islands?
The document suffers from the normal typically English desire not to offend anyone and to be nice to everyone. It talks of ‘faith communities’ and everyone learning more about everyone else’s faith, more dialogue between the religious and non religious, more understanding between the media and the religious, and so on. There are some reasonable points made to be fair to the report. It does say that there should be more education about religion in the media, which is fair enough. There is a need for more understanding between different groups in society. In fact this applies for politicians as well who perhaps thought the age of religion was over and we were ushering in the age of ‘reason. How wrong could you be? Politicians are perhaps the most important group of people who should develop their education on religion. It is their lack of discernment on this issue that has helped to bring us to our present peril. Likewise the report pushes the line that interfaith dialogue should be developed especially between abrahamic and dharmic faiths, which of course has its place, bearing in mind however the potential for dangerous compromise of one’s own beliefs.
Don’t you ever wonder sometimes that all the wrong people are in positions of power and influence and all the right people are down in the valley of the shadow of the humdrum just getting on with their lives and bemoaning the delusions that afflict some of the ruling classes in the western world. Would that we could swop the roles of some of these people at the wave of a wand to begin to stop the rot.
And just who are these people on the Commission? Well we have the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, a nice enough guy but more suited to the rarefied atmosphere of academia than a scrap with the fascist ‘liberals’ and politically correct apparatchiks that infest the west like rats in a sinking ship. One of his most enlightened moments as Archbishop was to ponder the possibility as I understand it of the prospect of aspects of sharia law being grafted into the UK legal system, a bit like taking a nest of cobras to your bosom but who am I to disagree with such an eminent intellect?
Then we have Baroness Butler-Sloss who was recently taken off an inquiry into sexual abuse of minors in Britain as she was deemed to be potentially compromised i.e. her brother was the Attorney General at the time of some of the abuse. She is a church going Anglican we are told. Followed by Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Islamic apologist who was in charge of the MCB (Moslem Council of Britain) when they boycotted the Holocaust Memorial Day. Anyone with any sort of robust Christian faith could be forgiven for not having the greatest confidence in their findings.
What is on the Commission’s Christmas/New Year list 2015/16? What are some of the gifts they are giving us in this season of good cheer? We can’t pick up on all their findings but firstly they propose that the next coronation which will presumably be of Prince Charles bar a miracle, take account of the ‘plurality’ of our nation, yes it’ll be a multi-faith one of course (nothing new there), treating all religions as equal therefore having your token imams, Hindu priests, Sikh holy men and perhaps one or two non conformists. And how about a couple of Jedi knights, and a satanist or two present at the multi-faith jamboree to make it really ‘diverse?’
Clifford Longley wrote a book years ago about the English constitutional settlement, that we have a coronation, not a constitution, where the new monarch promises to rule his/her people according to the precepts of the Holy Bible, invoking the relationship between the Old Testament priest, Zadok, God’s representative, and the children of Israel. A mere anachronism some might say in these days of godlessness. However, it has a history, and is at the heart of our government. It also gives England a claim to a unique exceptionalism little understood by most of the Queen’s subjects. I mean how many other countries in the world have a governmental system where the monarch pledges allegiance to the God of the Bible?
You either scrap it completely, or do the whole show, for Christianity is totally incompatible with any other religion because they have such fundamental differences. Anything else will be based on deception and will be a willing partner of the drive to build a flaky one world religion not based on truth but an unholy mishmash of different religions, that will just about suit the globalist agenda. In that regard it might be worth watching the present Pope, who seems to be building his social justice credentials rather than just preaching the uncompromising Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Their eminences and associated commission members don’t appear to believe in anything in particular apart from a mishmash of different faiths and non faiths, so why not scrap the whole thing? If you believe that Christianity provides the bedrock for our society and has done for hundreds of years then you will know that it is utterly and completely incompatible with Islam for a start, and would have issues with any other religion that claims any competitive position. The right stance as the Daily Telegraph said in quite a good article some years ago is to affirm Christianity as the historic religion of this country under which all other religions have an umbrella of protection, very wise and timely advice. But don’t legitimise all other religions in the eyes of the law which directly contradict Christianity. Why do you think so many people have come here from abroad in the past? They presumably didn’t have a problem with Britain being a ‘Christian country.’
How about this one, let’s have some representatives of other religions and worldviews in the House of Lords? ‘Who the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.’ How about some eminent imams? Let’s see, I wonder how many of those imams believe in their heart of hearts, although they would not say it on BBC Newsnight being interviewed by Evan Davies, that they have an agenda to turn the UK into an Islamic state with fully fledged sharia law, that all male apostates from Islam should be killed, that the whole world is a mosque and it is the duty of said imams to make sure every last one of us submits? Hmm, don’t think that will go down too well with the audience.
Third on the list of presents is ‘Let’s water down the distinctiveness of faith schools’ as they are ‘socially divisive and exclusive.’ So most religious school don’t need to select on grounds of religion anymore in their admissions and employment practices. Also in general the requirement to have an act of collective worship or religious observance should be repealed, let’s go for those inclusive assemblies and times for reflection! Surely their eminences know that education was started by churches in this country, and then the state took up the mantle of education for all. Shock horror, I thought Christianity was a medieval cult, you mean they actually encouraged education of young people!
Again ideology trumps reality. Faith schools, particularly Christian schools of a Roman Catholic or Anglican bent as they are the vast majority, tend to get some of the best results and reputations, and parents are desperate to get their brood into them. I wonder why? They are by no means perfect, but what school is? Christian schools still have an ethos that parents like, whether or not they are committed Christians. But Butler-Sloss, Williams and Sacranie are prepared to sacrifice them on the altar of multiculturalism, making an offering to the God of deception and delusion who has waved his wicked magic wand over the whole of the western world. Whatever replaces those schools will still have another set of values based on an ‘ity’ or ‘ism,’ and I suspect it won’t be superior to the Christian ethos.
I’d say it’s time to sacrifice the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life on the altar of common sense and historical perspective. However that will need an astounding recovery of nerve. In effect there is a profound crisis of confidence in the UK in its historic role and identity, particularly an uncomfortable relationship with its ‘anachronistic’ Christian past. There is such a powerful deception at work now that states that all religions should have equal standing and should thus be be treated equally, therefore you can’t treat Christianity as the gold standard anymore because that would be ‘unfair.’ The buzzwords of this delusion are ‘faith communities,’ ‘equality,’ ‘anti discrimination,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘diversity.’ The only answer to this situation is a wholesale rediscovery of the Christian faith which could bring renewal and revival to society just as it has in the past, potentially bringing life and resurrection to every sphere.