The Anglican Church under attack from its own Archbishop!

Nothing could be more far-fetched, nothing could be more surreal, nothing could be more bizarre than the Archbishop of Canterbury apologizing for Christianity; but it's happened! The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in an address in Cairo (of all places!), apologized for imposing Christian and Anglican hymns on the wider world.

It was, he says, in a twisted piece of theology, 'sinful' for the British to bring Jerusalem and Hark the Herald Angels Sing to the wider world and the far outreaches of the Empire.

He was especially critical of Victorian missionaries who had brought these wonderful anthems to far-flung peoples in the great age of evangelical fervour.

(Source: Daily Mail Man who hates his own Church by Mary Kenny)

Mary Kenny's article was brilliant. She tore the man to shreds!

We are living in perverse times. The advanced world is now finding it necessary to apologize for being civilized and, well, advanced. I tell you now: We will not last long as a civilization if things go on this way.

We have rotten leadership wherever you look. Our Prime Minister, Anthony Blair, is, in my opinion, the worst in living memory. He is busy taking away our liberty at every turn. Is he, perhaps, trying to inure us to the ultimate loss of freedoms that will inevitably be imposed on us as Islam grows here in the West, when Europe will morph into Eurabia?

Now we have rotten leadership in the Church of England, too! What is this man thinking about? As Mary Kenny rightfully points out: The Empire helped civilize the world. There is nothing to apologize for! Absolutely nothing! I, for one, am proud that Britain once had an Empire! It was Britain's hour of glory. And this should never be forgotten. What we have now is the rise of the Islamic empire. Time will tell just how beneficent and benevolent that empire will be!

The Archbishop is said to be a brilliant scholar. Brilliant he might well be; but one thing is for sure: He lacks common sense and the ability to lead!

Were I to be in his position, I should be considering my position. He is there in order to bring the Christian message - the Good News - to the people in this still Christian country. He should be evangelizing and filling the pews. That is the raison d'être of his position. He should think of himself as a glorified salesman: The more he manages to sell the message of the Gospel, the more successful he will be, and the fuller the church pews will be, too!

But what does he do? He causes rifts in the Church by his lack of firm leadership. He prefers to belly-ache about the rights and wrongs of accepting the homosexual lifestyle than to bring the people into the Church, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, metrosexual, or any other kind of 'sexual' you can think of!

The homosexual issue cannot be resolved: People take strong positions on it. Therefore, it would surely be better to leave this personal matter to the individual for it to be something between him and his God. Get on with the business of filling the Churches, Your Grace. The more the churches empty, the stronger Islam becomes in relative terms.

No atheism, no agnosticism, no syncretism, and no secularism is going to be strong enough to stand up to the Islamic onslaught. Christianity is what the West was built on. It is the rock underpinning our civilization. Take away the rock, and you are left with nothing - a void, a vacuum. A vacuum which will surely be filled by Islam!

No house can be built on shaky foundations; and no civilization can be kept together on shaky foundations, either. The Archbishop, in going to a Muslim country such as Egypt and apologizing for his own faith, is engaging in the removal of the underpinnings of our culture. Our culture will not survive long if this continues.

I hasten to add that I am not advocating any kind of fundamentalist form of Christianity. Heaven forbid! So I am certainly not advocating a nation of Bible freaks. But what I am saying is this: In Islam, we have a culture sure of itself and sure of its mission and destiny. Without Christianity, we cannot be sure of our own.

So I shall repeat the words of Sir Winston Churchill (slightly changed), used when WWII broke out, for I can think of no other's words more apt: Take up your task, Your Grace, with buoyancy and hope, and feel sure that your cause will not be suffered to fail among men. And feel entitled to claim the aid of all! And remember the words of Whitaker Chambers in Witness: History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that have become indifferent to God and died!

©Mark Alexander