Posted on 08/22/2016 1:50:56 AM PDT by Cronos
THE final parish meeting of the Holy Trinity Church, in the centre of Bath, took place on a rainy day in February 2011. Anglo-Catholic congregations had worshipped here, under the hammer-beam roof and monuments to heroes of Napoleonic wars, for nigh on two centuries. Now a $52,000 bill for electrical repairs had succeeded where a German bomb had failed: the church was to close and it was time to wind up its affairs... Today the building is listed for sale on the Church of England website, offers invited.
Last year the church reported a “sharp upturn” in such disposals. That hints at a milestone that Britain reached in January, when figures for weekly church attendance fell below 1m for the first time, as well as one passed in 2009, when the proportion of Britons saying they had no religion (49% in the latest data, for 2015) overtook that saying they were Christian (43% in 2015) in NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey. Other figures also point to this spiritual sorpasso: since 2004 church baptisms are down by 12%, church marriages are down by 19% and church funerals by 29%. A 65-country study by WIN/Gallup last year found a lower proportion of people are religious in Britain than in all but six other countries.
a fairly consistent 80% of the pre-war cohort has generally described itself as religious; about 40% of Britons born after 1980 tend to do so. And there are exceptions, of course. Some inner-city churches, particularly in areas of high immigration, are dynamic and thriving; clergymen hope that these successes can be spun off (or “planted”) to other parts of the country. Meanwhile other religions, like Islam, are growing—albeit not nearly fast enough to slow the growth of non-religious Britain.
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Islam will fill it. Unfortunately.
What is happening to many English is that they are degenerating. Islam would be easy to conquer them and make them into mindless serfs.
Don’t worry muslims are inside and coming more and more ....
Sad at the casual tossing aside of Christianity in the West. I wonder, however, if Ordinariate groups might be allowed to buy some of the redundant churches?
The muzzie rodents are outbreeding them. It is only a matter of time.
Antonio Gramsky wrote a set of pamphlets that served as an outline for the destructionists.
We here in the US of A ain’t the only folk to suffer the results of a successful Long March.
If that happens then sceptic will turn to septic.
Nature (and competitive cultures) abhors a vacuum...
It is worse than this: spend a little time over there and you will see that active hostility towards Christianity is widespread.
Don’t look now.....it’s already happening
God is moving the lamp stand. His patience does not last forever. And an ungodly nation always suffers in the end.
“Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”
Revelation 3:2
The Fabian Socialists such as those who work at the Economist have been working for over a century to eject God from their lives, from the body politic and from the culture of the nation. They are smug in their secular progressive religion. They have no concept of the damage to society they have encouraged and supported. Even worse, they have made common cause with Islam and are clueless to the cultural infection they have openly welcomed into the country.
Liberal elites are under the illusion that they will always be in control. They are clueless about how deceitful, ruthless and utterly brutal Muslims can be. No society has been able to resist them once they rise to a large enough percent of the population.
One would think that England is committing cultural suicide right before our eyes. But if England is the lineage of one of the Tribes of Israel, that being the tribe of Joseph, then the monarchy will survive so that when Jesus returns, He will claim the throne of His father David as was promised in Luke 1:32.
But if not, the English people as we know them will soon be supplanted by Muslims in the British Isles.
Silly Socialists! Their secular utopia will turn out to be anything but secular and it certainly won’t be utopia.
This will change—UK is ready for a revival. When things get bad—people turn to God. Remember 9-11?? The Churches were full.
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