- Re: War on Christianity Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron
on January 2, 2020, 12:09 pm, in reply to "Re: War on Christianity"
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"Christianity as it is billed now is light years away from the chap who said Love one another, do not be afraid and The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." I was in Chester a while back in the Cathedral to look at the wonderful medieval wood carvings, but like so many ecclesiastical buildings Chester doesn't come without being stacked full of the obligatory expensive and prominent monuments to upper class sons of empire- made dead in far off places on glorious adventures over the last couple of hundred years. Whilst there a clergyman then took to the pulpit to lecture visitors of how they should be thinking of all "our brave boys" around the world fighting for democracy and freedom etc. whilst we sleep sound in our beds. No mention at all of the "other" : those foreign folk who just happen to die somehow and apparently mysteriously in those very places we were justly and generously bringing our "pax". The Church of England is said to be the "Tory Party at Prayer" but it struck me at that moment that its always been more than that: its the religious wing of Empire militarism: poppies and monuments, Remembrance days and war prayer... its all part of the same con. If that's the "Christianity" people are at war with around the world I really can't blame them because, as you point out, its become the very antithesis of what it was meant to be. |