God knows how much I miss Reagan, Thatcher and John-Paul II.
Good Article, thank you for posting it.
Importance of us as parents in the Christian education of their children. Please note that these two examples are of Protestants, does NOT mean Catholics are excluded or being denigrated :
“The solid Christian base for Margaret Thatcher’s politics goes back to her strict Methodist upbringing and, more specifically, to her father — greengrocer, councilor, and Wesleyan lay-preacher, Alf Roberts. As a child, Margaret Roberts would sit in the pews of Finkin Street Methodist Church in Grantham, listening to her father hammer home sermons on the individualized nature of faith, God-given free will, moral and fiscal restraint, and the Protestant work ethic.”
“Ronald Reagan had mastered the language of conservative Evangelicals and their message of revival and salvation from the pernicious forces of hedonism — which stood him in good stead as president. Regarding his personal faith, Reagan was known to pray regularly, but was not an active churchgoer...It was his mother, though — the other great female figure in his life, who had inspired his Christian faith. Nelle Reagan was a committed member of the Disciples of Christ Church in Illinois and would conduct church readings, run Bible study classes, and (it was said) even perform healings. The Bible-based tutelage that Reagan received at the Disciples of Christ Church in Illinois was not a world away from the teaching Margaret Thatcher received at Finkin Street Methodist Church in Grantham.”
Thatcher was pro-abortion.
There has always been a sharp contrast between the kind of Methodism represented in Margaret Thatcher, very strict and conservative, and the extremely liberal “anything goes” other kind of Methodism. Thatcher represents the Wesleyan tradition, John Wesley was nothing like these modern Methodists of the left.
Except down south, you rarely meet a Wesleyan Methodist any more in the US.