Everyone has faith in something.
“Master of the Obvious” poster goes here.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see England divest itself pretty soon of even ceremonial links to its once prominent and influential church. This could prove a Good Thing for the church itself, as it would not have no more occasion to nod and wink at its notoriously naughty royalty.
would not have no more => would have no more
typo (i ain’t no user of double negatives)
The UK Agnlican Church is merely reaping what they have sowned via abandoning their Covenant with the Lord, even this article bears that out.
The “Church” is meant to obey the Lord, and to teach others to do so, not whine about declining numbers.
The word “Duh” comes to mind...
Of course, America is also a post-Christian nation - yet many here refuse to recognize it!
This is too funny!The Church of England has had less to do with Christianity than an atheist for years. How would the Bishop know.
Its interesting, the common thread, historically, throughout the G7 has been displaced, so I have to assume that globally we have entered into a period of decline.
The free industrialized west is being displaced not through invention or innovation, however the opposite... just displaced demographically by a backwards cult demanding rights from a generous group of people. The Christians.
Britian is no longer an ANGLICAN nation. Seems the bishop confuses the “Church of England” with Christianity as a whole. There are large numbers of devout Christians in England. They just tend to be Catholics and other Protestants rather than the “official” religion of the nation. Guess Henry VII’s efforts to start a religion so he could divorce another wife didn’t work out that well 500 years later.
“Christian Britain is dead”.
John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
” ‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and
to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to
those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We
have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have
exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness
and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected
to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have
abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s
possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with
profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have
ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it
enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us
from every sin and set us free.. Amen!’
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, ‘The
Rest of the Story,’ and received a larger response to this program than
any other he has ever aired. With the Lord’s help, may this prayer
sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we
again can be called ‘One nation under God.’”
The UK is done, and has been for some years now. Unrelenting, non-stop immigration, has destroyed Britain
I am a Catholic but I hope the CofE has a revivial. This reminds me of the CofE in the 18th/early 19th century which was vanilla and definately more ‘Of this world”. A large portion of the clergy were in it for social status and getting the income of the living attached to a appointment than serving Christ. If you read Austen, George Eliot, etc you know what I mean. Nature abhors a vacuum and this lead to the creation of more non-conformist congregations, Wesley and the Methodists. Or attempts to make the CofE more “Catholic” or outright conservion to Roman Catholicism, for example the Pusyites and one its more famous members Newman becoming a Roman Catholic. I find it interesting from the comments and article you have the same situation today of people going to the Catholic church or evangelical congregations and I see that as a very good thing.
The article said — Britain is no longer a Christian nation and the Church of England could die out within a generation, an Anglican bishop has warned.
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Same thing with America...