In an exclusive interview for our Telegram podcast, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali – a Pakistani-born scholar who resigned as Bishop of Rochester in 2009 in order to train Christians facing persecution – says "the Churches have generally capitulated to secular culture and therefore cannot bring a distinctive voice to public debate".
They have neglected human relations, especially the family, in favour of "welfarism" that teaches that the state should provide all the goods that citizens need. All this adds up to the slow death of people's sense of themselves as spiritual beings – and this affects "even people who go to church".
Bishop Nazir-Ali, a theological conservative who opposes the ordination of actively gay clergy, is now president of Oxtrad, which "prepares Christians for ministry in situations where the Church is under pressure and in danger of persecution". He claims that, in addition to ignoring the current persecution of Christians in the Islamic world, secular Britain brushes aside historical evidence of Muslim aggression. » | Damian Thompson | Wednesday, May 29, 2013
My comment:
This is the man who should have been made the Archbishop of Canterbury. He'd have been the perfect choice. Alas, the prime minister had neither the foresight nor insight to select him. Was he, perhaps, afraid to do so?
The Church of England is so far down the road of political correctness that it believes that all faiths are of equal value; and in so doing, it undermines the reason for its own existence. It could be said that it has become a faith that apologises for itself. It has lost all self-confidence. Islam, by contrast, is a proud, confident, proselytizing 'faith.' It believes that the future belongs to Islam and Muslims. And the way things are going, it is probably true. – © Mark
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