The Church of England’s leaders, driven by a misguided quest for inclusivity, are alienating members and disregarding the teachings of Jesus, sacrificing tradition for culture. A passive society, argues Nick Timothy in the Telegraph, only worsens the erosion of values. Here’s an excerpt:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life,” said Jesus Christ. “No one comes to the Father except through me.” And so Jesus taught Christians to pray to God addressing Him as our Father.
Now, after two millennia of Christian worship, senior figures in the Church of England believe they know better. The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, says the word “Father” is “problematic”. He says this because of “those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive” and “all of us who have laboured rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life”.
This follows an attempt, made at the General Synod in February, to introduce gender-neutral terminology in worship in Anglican churches. The Reverend Christina Rees, a former member of the Synod, has supported Cottrell, saying “because Jesus called God ‘daddy’, we think we have to call God ‘daddy’.”
We can argue about whether this is a respectful way for Rees to make her argument, or if it is right that Cottrell should put concerns about a supposed “patriarchy” ahead of what Jesus taught him to do. But two things are clear. First, in the Church of England – which came into existence during the Reformation, in which Protestants complained that acquired tradition, or culture, trumped scripture – culture now trumps scripture.
Second, in the name of inclusivity, the Church’s leaders are alienating many of its members. This is neither the first example from within Anglicanism, nor a problem limited to the Church. We have seen Muslim prayers read in Westminster Abbey that refer to Mohammed as “the chosen one”, and the adhan recited in Manchester Cathedral, claiming “Mohammed is the Messenger of God” – both, fundamentally, refutations of the divinity of Christ.
We have seen, too, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, get behind the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign, auditing statues and commemorative names in the Church and comparing British figures to Felix Dzerzhinsky, the mass murderer responsible for the Red Terror. Welby has talked of collective sin inherited by white people and by the British, and claimed there can only be forgiveness for the sins of past British generations “if we change the way we behave now” – a position contradicted by scripture.
The Church is not the only institution that seems determined to upturn its own beliefs and purpose and repel those loyal to it. From the National Trust – hectoring its members and visitors about our history – to the British Museum – determined, it seems, to surrender the most prized artefacts entrusted to it – so many of our national and cultural organisations are hostile to the interests and values they were formed to uphold.
The question is why? The answer lies in how zealous anger is met by meek indifference, destructive ideology by passive pragmatism, and activists’ exhilaration of believing history is on their side by the fear of cancellation and reputational ruin. It is a clash between the certainty of extremist activists and the passivity of a society that has lost its confidence and belief in truth.
Organisations such as BLM and Stonewall are open about their intent and method. Less obvious, however, is the way other campaign groups – Islamist organisations, for example – use liberal principles and identity politics to pursue illiberal objectives. And less visible are the staff representative bodies and individual decision-makers within companies and public services that impose radical values. In a recent ITV News feature on the effects of the cost of living crisis on mothers, for example, the journalist interviewed a trans activist who lives as a woman.
These invisible, unaccountable warriors abuse their positions within businesses and the public sector to advance their ideological causes. But they would not succeed without the passivity of others. In the Civil Service, where senior officials email their staff with homilies about BLM and hire Stonewall to assess their compliance with trans ideology, it is, as with the Church, because many leaders are wet liberals who want to “be kind”, but mistake conforming with extremism for kindness.
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The “why?” is also decades of propaganda as the woke captured the media, and then everything else.
It’s war, and they started it.
The objective is the eradication of Christian culture.
I’m absolutely clear now that Stonewall is the driving force behind this, a gang of militant, humanist homosexuals bent on intimidating ordinary people into their doctrine.
We must show zero tolerance to any business that espouses it, fight them in the schools and universities, and ‘out’ any and every politician who cowtows.
PS dont worry about Almighty God, He can take care of himself as demonstrated at Sodom. Jesus too warned us of the coming apostasy, a sign things are moving faster.
It’s not Stonewall, it is some very rich and powerful globalists who want to tear down society so they can rebuild it in their image – Money grabbing do-as-thou-wilt gnosticism.
WEF!
“Britain’s passive surrender…”
We cannot fight woke culture without a much better understanding of what is behind it and how it operates. Dr. James Lindsay (https://newdiscourses.com/) is an authority on this.
Look, it is perfectly true that the “woke” are a minority; it is also true that they are met with meek passivity, but this is by no means an adequate diagnosis. First, where is that minority? It is in positions of influence and power, with more cohorts on the way. Second, where are the grander sort of meeklings who might resist? Retired, or about to leave or – nowadays – heavily outnumbered. Third, what do the meeklings – grand or not – actually believe? Yes, they believe in “kindness”, a belief so naked, so unmitigated and so lonely that it is easily exploited.
They have never had to fight and they certainly cannot do so in the name of self-interest, far less in the interests of their people. The “woke” have duly exploited this weakness, packaging their programme as the advance of “kindness”. You would have to read Wilde’s brilliant little fairy-tale, “The Devoted Friend” to understand just what they are up to – which, in political terms, is nothing less than the persecution of the European people.
But it is offered quite shamelessly to that people as martyrdom and self-sacrifice in a “noble cause”. And so, soaked in their free-floating devotion to “kindness”, the European people go along with it, lambs to the slaughter.
And those who would resist? Where are they? Marginalised, at an early stage, sometimes by the very meeklings in their pomp, for refusing to believe that an open, free-floating, generalised “compassion” was sustainable, either in politics or in life. As ever, Dostoevsky got there first, offering us a vision of where such spiritual pride will get us, in the figure of Prince Myshkin.
All around him ultimately suffer from his proud refusal to fight a little for his own interests. And the point of the story is that only God can show the sort of world-bearing compassion that the meeklings demand of themselves, and the “woke” cynically demand of them.
The “devoted friend”, readers will recall, ends up dead. And perhaps, because the meeklings have so devotedly prepared the way for the “woke”, our civilisation will die, too.
There are many churches which don’t go along with this woke nonsense. To find one, this map is very helpful:
https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
I’m sorry, but, if you have to seek out a church that meets your beliefs then the church itself is already lost!
This massive nonsense will destroy belief in Christianity let alone the church of England!
C of E is now a lost cause, get over it!
The Church of England may very well be lost, but Christianity endures. Christianity is more than the institution of the church.
Agreed. I don’t go to church particularly, but I’m a strong believer. My faith is my business and I don’t parade it in public.
I’m a bit of an atheist but CofE Christened way back when & I wish the Church Of England was strongly led by a proper man of the cloth
1tick up & 1 tick down , it’s a draw !
Very useful – thank you!
People should read up on how communist regimes imposed themselves in Eastern Europe after WWII.
It was a small organised minority backed by the USSR imposing themselves on a passive population that felt unable to argue against it because to do so was to invite accusations of being a fascist or nazi sympathiser, something that post 1945 was very dangerous and completely career and life destroying.
Now similarly, we have a minority backed by powerful interests and an intimidated population that is afraid to speak up for fear of being called racist or bigoted and having their careers destroyed.
Yes, Solzhenitsyn remarked that if they’d all stood together in those early days, they could have taken down the Soviet regime before it started.
The nub of the problem is that certain financial groups, notably BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, are pushing woke ‘behaviours’ on debt-ridden corporations in exchange for credit. The more the corporations follow these behaviours, the more broke they become. Right now, Larry Fink is arguably the most powerful man on the planet.
Good analysis
An outright fantastic theory. With the Wehrmacht out of the picture, the Red Army effectively controlled most of eastern middle Europe by virtue of military occupation. Communist satellite regimes where installed in all of these states and kept in place by military interventions squashing popular uprisings whenever they occurred (GDR 1953, Hungary 1956, CSSR 1968). In 1989, Honecker asked for the Russians to intervene to conserve the GDR but Gorbachev refused.
Your description is fairly accurate for the FRG, though: A small, organized minority backed by the USA taking control of rump Germany while the population had to undergo denazification procedures and faced more of less severe punishments when they didn’t comply enthusiastically enough (my grandfather was sentenced to forced labour in a forest because as professional solider, he was considered a war criminal withouth having to go through the tedious procedure of proving that he had actually committed any crimes and secure a conviction from a proper court based on that). Ironically, until 1969, the FRG was governed by members of the party whose votes had legalized the enablement act in 1933 but the Americans apparently didn’t know that (Zentrum aka CDU/CSU).
The rulers of the CofE are Satanic. We’re seeing the result of a century of Frankfurt School infiltration of our civilisation’s institutions. The genius of the Frankfurt School is that their method was to create a snowball in order to trigger an avalanche. The Frankfurt School is long gone, but their ideology’s slow infiltration means we’re seeing the avalanche now.
Moral corruption is followed by a last desperate lashing out to control behaviour, speech and thought before total collapse. I’d never had to deal much with pure Evil in my relatively cushioned Western life until the lockdowns, where you could sense the Evil out there as a palpable force.
My loyalty is to the Land, not the artificially created state of the UK. My view of where we live has changed drastically. Where once I looked at our National Parks as ringed off areas of our country, now I look on the National Parks as out country and the cities as self-evolved concrete prisons.
Part of this problem is also the likes of the UN: most countries in the world are not Western liberal democracies, so if you create a global power like the UK, it’s not going to have a liberal democratic Western outlook.
Ultimately, a mosquito is tiny compared with a human. But it can bite a human on one of his ankles and give him diseases that can kill him. That’s how the woke work. We’re in an ideological war and have been since the early 1930s, but we’re not fighting it because few can see it due to how slowly it’s been moving. At the point of almost total victory – the surrender of the state church by the Frankfurt School’s descendants who have gutted it from within – people are starting to notice. But they’ve been robbed of the technical and linguistic skills to combat it.
France is collapsing into civil war. Soon, it will spread. And we have to collect as many art treasures, music manuscripts, books, paintings and films as we can to protect them for the coming dark ages.
The problem is you’re listening to the Church of England, which has left the faith. That doesn’t mean everyone in the CofE has left the faith, it means the organisation has. As long as that is the case I can only suggest parishioners find a church where the Bible and the word of Christ are respected and followed.
People will have to do what they did in the Dark Ages: form their own churches and have prayer meetings… and occasional wandering holy men will sometimes come by and perform mass in someone’s home.
Five jabs thus far. There really is no cure for ‘stupid’.
”The first time Marion Carrett tested positive for COVID, she didn’t think much of it. It was at the height of Australia’s Omicron wave, and the virus was striking all around her.
The second time, she figured she was just unlucky.
Then came a third positive test.
And a fourth.
It wasn’t until she caught it a fifth time that she began to suspect she was dealing with something more than bad luck. After travelling from her Gold Coast home to Melbourne, Marion was forced to turn right around when the by-then familiar symptoms started. “That’s when I went, ‘Okay, well, this is out of control. I can’t go on holidays, I can’t go anywhere’,” she says.
Over the following five months, she would test positive for COVID another five times — returning a negative result between each one.
After what she believes were 10 separate infections, including nine in the past 10 months, Marion’s life is a shadow of what it once was. Interstate and overseas trips have been cancelled because the risk of falling ill is too great. Theatre tickets have been given away time and time again. Weeks have been spent in bed, isolated away from her mother and niece, who she shares a house with.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-10/the-mystery-of-why-some-people-keep-getting-covid/102565846
That’s clearly a case of chronic moronity and laziness. Whenever the lady gets any of fatigue, a sore throat, cough, headache temperatures, and chills she does another test in the hope that it’ll turn positive again and she can then take some more time off to stay in bed all day. I’ll have some of these horrible symptoms every month as well and – just like all other normal people – I ignore them until they go away again which they’ll usually do very quickly. Nine infections ten months implies that she never got really sick (as in bad case of influenza) because otherwise, she couldn’t have racked up that many infections is so little time.
A friend of my Mum’s had a nasty sore throat and cold virus. It cleared after a while. She then had her SIXTH jab and the virus came right back even worse than before. She says anyone questioning the COVID jabs is a paranoid conspiracy theorist. What can you do when faced with that?
And the COVID tests will likely test positive if you have a coronavirus cold, so they’re pointless too.
They’re pointless in any case. Sars-CoV2 is now an endemic virus and hence, people will keep getting infected with it. Due to preexisting immunity, these infections will – as also inadvertently admitted by Ms Lazy Moron – cause only very mild symptoms (if at all) which will get better quickly.
Mohammad was a sick murderer and a paedophile. He was some insane bloke who wrote a book where the main aim is to murder anyone who disagrees. Yet the Church of England is led into the Wilderness by a creature who knows not his arse from his elbow, hates his own faith, hates himself and hates our country and society.
The Bible states “The meek shall inherit the earth”. There isn’t much meek about Muslims but, as Wellsby does, one can think that they are a minority who need to be appeased along with all their brethren who also hate us.
Personally, I think the vicious, the sick in the head and the deluded have already inherited the earth. The Sheeple simply haven’t caught on just yet. Our civilisation is in its death throws just the same as Rome et al. First, it starts with a form of insanity in leaders and then it rolls and rolls. Then society is no more. Those who do not see this should ask “What actually did happen to [insert disappeared civilisation here]?”
Spot on
Bromsgrove Saturday ( yes the pride crap is still rolling) Phillipa Hole was one if the acts & local fools were there watching !
Fallen soldiers get one day of recognition. Sex perverts get an official month and are allowed to parade their perversion all year round!
Surrender to Woke Surrender your freedom
Stand in the Park Sundays 10.30am
Elms Field
near play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE
Frank Zappa once said: Never underestimate the power of stupid people, in large groups. Not quite sure why I remembered this quote!!
PS: Very Scary & Telling. Reminds me of certain movies!! Hmmm