Archbishop of Canterbury tries to claim the UK is Christian
The Unhived Mind
24 April 2014 Last updated at 14:55
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27145915
David Cameron right on Christianity, says Welby
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said David Cameron is “right” to state that the UK is a “Christian country”.
The Most Rev Justin Welby wrote in his blog that it was a “historical fact (perhaps unwelcome to some, but true)” that UK law, ethics and culture were based on its teachings and traditions.
He called the criticism of Mr Cameron by “atheist protesters” over his remarks “baffling”.
Opponents argued that the prime minister’s intervention was “divisive”.
Prior to Easter, Mr Cameron wrote in the Church Times that people in the UK should be “more confident about our status as a Christian country”.
This prompted a group of 50 public figures to write a letter to the Daily Telegraph insisting that the UK was “a non-religious” and “plural” society and that to claim otherwise “fosters alienation and division”.
It was “wrong to try to exceptionalise” the contributions of Christianity to national culture, they added.
‘Vulnerable’
In response, Mr Cameron’s Conservative cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith called the claims “absurd”, while another, Dominic Grieve, said atheism had not made “much progress” in the UK.
Writing in his blog, Dr Welby, said: “Judging by the reaction (to Mr Duncan Smith and Mr Grieve), anyone would think that the people concerned had at the same time suggested the return of the Inquisition (complete with comfy chairs for Monty Python fans), compulsory church-going and universal tithes.”
He added: “It’s all quite baffling and at the same time quite encouraging. Christian faith is much more vulnerable to comfortable indifference than to hatred and opposition. It’s also a variation on the normal ‘Sword and Grail discovered’ stuff that seems to be a feature of Easter week news.
“Yet the prime minister and other members of the government have not said anything very controversial. It is a historical fact (perhaps unwelcome to some, but true) that our main systems of ethics, the way we do law and justice, the values of society, how we decide what is fair, the protection of the poor, and most of the way we look at society… All have been shaped by and founded on Christianity.
“Add to that the foundation of many hospitals, the system of universal schooling, the presence of chaplains in prisons, and one could go on a long time. Then there is the literature, visual art, music and culture that have formed our understandings of beauty and worth since Anglo-Saxon days.”
The 2011 census found 59% of people in England and Wales said they were Christians – down from 72% a decade earlier.
In Scotland the figure was 54% – down from 65% – while the percentage fell slightly to 83% in Northern Ireland.
Dr Welby, who has been Archbishop of Canterbury since 2012, said: “It is clear that, in the general sense of being founded in Christian faith, this is a Christian country.
“It is certainly not in terms of regular church-going, although altogether, across different denominations, some millions attend church services each week. Others of different backgrounds have also positively shaped our common heritage.
“But the language of what we are, what we care for and how we act is earthed in Christianity, and would remain so for many years even if the number of believers dropped out of sight (which they won’t, in my opinion).”
Criticising the signatories of the letter to the Telegraph, who included the writers Philip Pullman and Sir Terry Pratchett, Dr Welby said: “The atheist protesters are wrong to argue that expressing confidence in the country’s Christian identity fosters alienation and division in our society.
“Indeed, it is significant that non-Christian faith leaders – among them Anil Bhanot of the Hindu Council UK, Farooq Murad of the Muslim Council of Britain and Lord Indarjit Singh of the Network of Sikh Organisations – have spoken out in support of Mr Cameron.”
He added: “So why the fuss? As I say, for all of us, in the church, of Christian faith, of any tradition or set of beliefs, history makes for some uncomfortable reading. Its facts are awkward for all of us, but it is no use pretending they do not exist. The PM is right on this.”
One Response to Archbishop of Canterbury tries to claim the UK is Christian
- theunhivedmind says:
It is claimed the UK is a country but this was just a way to destroy the sovereignty of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland!
The Anglican Church has always been a branch of the Roman Catholic Church which was never Christian to start with and was nothing more than a continuation of Babylonian worship and paganism wrapped up in one and masquerading as Christian in order to destroy true Christianity out of existence. The so-called division of the Anglican Church from the Roman Catholic Church was bought about by the Venetians who created the Reformation as a way of using Britain and Protestant divisions against Catholic divisions in order to keep them both from focusing on their real enemy which was the Venetian merchants from hell. Today in a church of the Anglican Church you will usually never even see a King James Bible and they certainly would not allow you to read a Geneva Bible. Both the Roman Catholic Church since the Council of Nicea and the Venetian Empire have made sure that true Christianity was destroyed and in its place these farces we see today. These same organizations today promote everything that goes against Christianity and the worst offender if the Anglican Church. The false-Catholic Jesuits infiltrated the Anglican Church to aid its now destruction we see today.
Hows about how these religious organizations became so connected to the money-changers where by your false marriages in one of their churches (porn worship) makes a contract with the State to enslave your offspring to the Cestui Que Vie Act of 1666. The money-changers then try to spring on you after your child is born and get you under duress to register your child’s birth. The money-changers want that child registered for the next and final phase of enslavement. Jesus Christ as we have been told was against the money-changers. The original Lord’s pray spoke of forgiving debts (bankruptcy) and not the trespasses changes we have today. The Lord’s pray was doctored in order to shield the money-changers and aid the merging of the two. The Catholic Church has always had great powers over banking systems, as most of you know about the Church and the ancient Knights Templars then in 1312 the continuum as the Sovereign Military of Malta and so forth. Do these religious fakes sound like true Christians to you following Jesus?
Don’t both of these nefarious fake organizations depict Jesus as a white European? You know that representation of Cesare Borgia an ancestor of Jesuit Francis Borgia who is the true Lucifer! What happened to the Hebrew dark-skinned Jesus? What about even the black Jesus if we go even further in history to suppressed black cultures from ancient times? No true Christians never followed the nonsense this system has for so many centuries and continues on to this very day. True Christians do not worship Zeus the planet Jupiter! Is it any wonder why so many fake Christians use the name Peter and Patrick? In Ireland Patrick is very common with Catholics and comes from the Jupiter god by way of the Egyptian naming of Ptah Rekh.
The last Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams I believe was a deceptive Jesuit masquerading as a Protestant. Rowan Williams of all people was also a druid! Do not be fooled by deception agents. England and the United Kingdom are as far from Christian as you can image and it has never been Christian! Easter is a Babylonian festival know as Ishtar. Ishtar and its continuum Easter have nothing to do with Christianity! In fact you can also look into Zoroastrianism for many clues as to what these nefarious organizations really follow.
-= The Unhived Min