Posted on 07/30/2014 2:01:47 PM PDT by Enza Ferreri
Not many words are needed.
Just compare the two pictures from the Mail Online, both taken at the end of last month, few hundred yards of each other in the East End of London.
The top photo shows a Sunday morning service in the churche of St George-in-the-East on Cannon Street Road. Only 12 people attended the service.
The photo at the bottom shows worshippers gathered for Friday midday prayers outside the mosque on the Brune Street Estate in Spitalfields. Since the mosque holds "only" 100 people - an enviable number for many churches -, the Muslim believers overflowed in the nearby streets.
As a terrible coincidence, adding insult to injury, Canon Michael Ainsworth of St George’s, that the Mail describes as "putting on a brave face", was beaten up in 2008 in his churchyard by three "Asian" (read "Muslim") youths, in an incident which police treated as a "faith-hate" attack.
The chairman of my party Liberty GB, Paul Weston, wrote about it at the time, and so did I a few years later.
Is this the country we want to live in? A country where decent, altruistic, peaceful and loving people are replaced by their exact opposites?
Even more disturbing is that in Churches, it is the demographic that is not going to be around that much long. Old. Us.
At our Church it is just a handful of us old people with the occasional young person. And we are more well attended than most.
What do you expct when the Archbishop of Canterbury says he doesn’t believe in the deity of Jesus Christ? England has become an atheist/Muslim nation.
Sadly, there are a lot of churches like that. Even sadder is that many of those churches don’t want young people at “their” church. However, at our church, we have HUNDREDS of kids from birth through high school show up on Sunday morning. Where we tend to “lose” them is during and immediately after college. But when they get married and have children, they show back up.
Please explain. Do people stop going to church out of fear of Muslim violence? Have any churches in Britain been blown up?
In Egypt, Pakistan, & Nigeria these things are true, due to Muslim majorities with no fear of retribution.
In U.K. it’s more like the churches are withering on the vine. Having a Druid as Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t help.
Muzzies breeding like mosquitoes doesn’t help either.
[ Even more disturbing is that in Churches, it is the demographic that is not going to be around that much long. Old. Us.
At our Church it is just a handful of us old people with the occasional young person. And we are more well attended than most. ]
In the early 90’s our catholic parish shut down a very successful Catholic high School that was offered a blank check from a local entrepreneur to stay open...
A large number of the students were not catholic but were other Christians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc... and they had to pay MORE tuition to enroll as if you were a Catholic you paid a lot less.
They claimed they were shutting it down due to “budgetary Concerns”... A few years later the Church broke ground on their new “Community center” so the old farts could go play bingo on Wednesdays and Sundays... A few years after that they start renovating the church to “Look newer”... they drove away about 1/2 the parishioners and they still had money for the Million dollar community center and the Million dollar facelift for the church....
I am beginning to think that people like Ann Barnhardt are on to something: http://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/07/28/the-one-about-the-bernardin-alinsky-obama-nexus/
The churches are dying in part because the churches have been infiltrated by marxism and homosexual agendas...
Here’s an idea for the Anglicans.
Behead anyone who fails to show up for Sunday services.
Put all women in black Victorian veils and keep them at home. Only men can lead the church.
Nah A pipe dream. Won’t happen. We are a church that is trendier than thou.
You don’t make a lot of comments, Enza.
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Don’t you like us? Aren’t we good enough for you?
not yet but it seems to be getting trendy and I agree with your point as well. One can tell a good Christian leader by the number of folks who attend that church
Easy. One is freedom, the other you will be shot for not complying.
I miss Dave Hunt.
This is the product of a very diluted Gospel.
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