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So, take it with perhaps some huge grains of salt, but take it.
Class, discuss.
The reason they do this is the guys get more chicks to do with as they please. Its all about power and control, for the weak minded folks of course. Those who cannot stand any disagreement or dissent. Just a bunch of jobless bored idiots..
Christianity has long lost its masculinity. We became passive when things became easy and now are reaping those rewards. Just look at the sissified whiney “praise” music we have these days. God is love and feelings, is all you hear these days. It’s about a “ relationship”. There is no awe, no power, no majesty, no sacrifice. Just mushy love and feelings. I can’t stand it.
Islam is easy...get the rule book and follow it.
Wisdom isn't easy. And once learned, leading a life of wisdom and obedience to God is even harder.
Satan (er, Allah) is a master at offering the easy way out.
72 virgins vs an angel playing a harp..that's a no brainer
Outwardly, Islam displays pious, dignified values. But it takes burkas, honor killings, sharia law, and other requirements anathema to a free society to prop that facade up..
This is the Great Apostasy that Paul talked about in 2 Thess. 2:1-12.
A big drawback of a state church is that it has the appearance of speaking for all Christians, whether members of said church of otherwise.
Sort of like (almost, in effect if not in reality of course) a monopoly .. if not on membership than on the image of Christianity in the UK.
So, when the “monopolist’s” product quality goes down for any reason (such as, humanistic or secular bishops and priests that move considerably away from the received traditions of the church).... then it appears (right or wrong) that Christianity has little to offer (other than a duplication of the secular society, which is not why most people seek out a religious affiliation).
Result: “Christianity has nothing to offer me,
so I will try this other thing... “
alas, from the frying pan to the fire (of Hell)
but... there it is
what is to be done? How to get the Church of England to return to a more loyal or traditional understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition and Christian faith?
there’s the rub... and there’s the saving answer..
The alternative to Christianity is not secular hedonism.
It is Islam.
Discuss?> What? England is dead. There is nothing to discuss.
“....believes that’s because Islam’s family values are “really bonded, and families really try to nurture young people in the folds of Islam.”
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Yeah, ‘honor killing’ is another word for muslim ‘family values’.
the anglican church in england today is hardly christian. the real christians left a long time ago.
Young people in Britain mostly have the Anglican Church to leave, and it has left Christianity so far behind that it is barely recognizable. Women priests. Gay marriages. Abortion. What’s really left to embrace?? People are attracted to Real Beliefs, a solid ship in the Sea of Life. Too bad it is Islam.
Thanks very much for clarifying that the Final Call is an Islamic n/p.
My British friends - as nice as they are personally - brag about how their country is now “post Christian.” Well, you get what you want. Except that young people want tough medicine. And that answer, horribly, seems to be islam.
Because Islam is winning.
There are numerous causes but some are:
1. The feminist notion that when a man pursues a woman, inwardly in fact his motive is something akin to RAPE.
2. An afrocentric, hip-hop notion that marriage is for “suckaz”.
3. The equality of values idea that rendering value judgements (like “hey, that’s a sin, so it’s not OK...”) is brash and outdated — “there are many shades of grey”.
4. The success of the homosexual community in turning The Church into a de-facto refuge for gay people wanting a steady paycheck with little need for technical skills and high contact with the unsuspecting public.
My guess would be stupidity.......
re: decline in church attendance in the uk
we were in St Martin’s in the Fields for several weeks in a row in june, the church was well attended but most of the parishioners appeared to be visitors to london like us.
Well Da!
Satan running rampant in the streets, Islam rises, Christianity slides.
Pope Francis says “create a mess, get out into the streets”. Spread the message of Truth.
It’s war, and we will win, with much suffering(love).
It could be that Jesus has been beat out of the C of E, so there’s no real reason to join it. Non-biblical “Christian” churches are losing people all over the world.