UK: Without Christianity, Our Society is Doomed
Rev Dr Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange, has this commentary in the Telegraph. He writes:
Canon Michael Ainsworth, a priest and colleague of mine just a couple of miles from my rectory in the City of London, was recently attacked in his churchyard by three youths . . .
Well, it’s clear that the yobs who attacked Michael were Muslims . . . So why were the police, and much of the media, so vague as to call these thugs “Asians”? . . .
This attack was one small example of the persecution being endured by the Church worldwide. On four continents Islamic militants are attacking and sometimes murdering Christians and burning down churches. Why do the archbishops and bishops not lead mass Christian demonstrations against these atrocities? Instead, we have to observe the filigree intelligence of the Archbishop of Canterbury as it operates on the precise relation between English law and some “unavoidable” accommodation with sharia. He, with his whole hierarchy, strains at gnats and swallows camels.
Mullen concludes:
We imagine we can ditch Christianity and yet the good things we have inherited in our way of life will continue. They will not. Christianity formed Western civilisation and is so consubstantial with it that if Christianity goes, the lot goes with it. Let T.S. Eliot, writing in 1934, give us a text to think about this Easter: “Do you need to be told that even such modest attainments as you can boast in the way of polite society will hardly survive the Faith to which they owe their significance?”