Good story, crummy philosophy.
UK is ripe for Islam.
That does it...I’m going home to behead my neighbor’s goat, with Ozzy Osbourne blaring in the background. /s
Every society will attempt to fill a spiritual vacuum, either with Godliness or paganism.
England has chosen, and it’s not Godliness.
Islamic republic before 2050, mark my words.
Sentry: Do you want the padre?
Harry Morant: No, thank you. I’m a pagan.
Sentry: And you?
Peter Handcock: What’s a pagan?
Harry Morant: Well... it’s somebody who doesn’t believe there’s a divine being dispensing justice to mankind.
Peter Handcock: I’m a pagan, too.
Harry Morant: There is an epitaph I’d like: Matthew 10:36. Well, Peter... this is what comes of ‘empire building.’
Major Thomas: Matthew 10:36?
Minister: “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”
Paganism is everywhere...Christian churches too with its own rituals, traditions- christmas/easter/even Sabbaths just to name a couple ... God of this world is counterfeiting....
Jeremiah 16:19. the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the world, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies and vanity, wherein there was no profit....
Great missionary fields for the Christians of the global south.
The amount of paganism (wiccan, islamic, or otherwise) is far less a problem than the degree of paganism parading as, residing within, the church (in Uk and USA both. ). The cAmel is already inside the tent.
You’ll notice that every European country that had a state religion has a failing state religion, and people looking for other alternatives.
This is the real “separation of church and state” they never figured out. A state church is just giving people two masters, and the master with a legion of annoying bureaucrats will generally win that dispute.