MORAL LEADERSHIP – NO CHANCE
NEVER BEFORE HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A NEED FOR MORAL LEADERSHIP IN BRITAIN, yet the organisation that traditionally has provided such a lead is at the forefront of the drive to encourage depravity, to accept criminality and to allow the break up of stable family environments which are so important for the well being of the next generation.
THE Church of England has ceased to believe ‘in morality of any description, it is happy to embrace the teachings of all other world religions, even the most obscure or extreme, and now it is quite happy to express doubts about belief in its central tenets.
Of course this sweeping generalisation is not true of the millions of Christians in Britain, it is not true of most church goers, nor even of most clergy – but it is true of the church leaders. For example:
In July a Church of England report called on worshippers to help sex offenders reintegrate into society, and said, ‘we have a duty to welcome people into our congregations, especially offenders who have no family, no settled accommodation and no employment’ … but presumably keep an eye on the choir boys.
The Church of England has completely failed to even bother making the case that the Millennium is essentially a Christian celebration of 2000 years of Christianity. As a result the Millennium Dome’s ‘Faith Zone’ is going to be the usual jumble of religions guaranteed to confuse children who are now regularly taught that all religions are ‘equallyvalid’ – so that they can pick and choose just like which football team to support.
At the end of July, Bishop Holloway announced that casual sex was perfectly acceptable. He said that many young people have sex whenever they feel like it -‘the way they have a cup of coffee or a hamburger’- this did not necessarily mean they were lacking in sexual ethics. He went on to say that ‘bringing God into the moral debate is problematic, no matter how we respond’.
The Church of England’s Children’s Society announced at the end of July that it would in future allow homosexual and lesbian couples to adopt through their agency.
The New Millennium would, of course, be an ideal opportunity for a major Christian revival. At the time of the first Millennium there was a burst of church building across Europe. Yet for this Millennium not one single new church is planned in Britain, instead we have the half-baked idea of lighting candles in pub windows, while the Archbishop of Canterbury is to produce a book (of a whole 40 pages) which with true 1960’s liberal Marxist guilt deplores all the failings of the Church throughout its existence. He also announces that while the existence of Christ is certain and that He was definitely crucified, ‘we cannot be certain that He was raised by God from the dead’.
Is it any wonder that the Churches are empty, the coffers are declining and the moral authority of the Church of England has become a joke. In stark contrast are the advances made by one or two other churches and more worryingly by other religions whose moral basis is not necessarily the same as the Christian morality which has been the bedrock of Western civilization.
One can only hope that the old adage is true: that it is darkest just before the dawn, and perhaps alongside a renascence of the British nation can corne a renascence in our spiritual beliefs and values – but if so, the Church of England rnay not be part of that new dawn.
Reproduced from The Flag with the kind permission of The National Democrats
