this tells me some people over there are sick of it.
But some senior Anglicans are unhappy. Rowan Williams, a former archbishop of Canterbury, talked of the political 'weaponisation' of Christmas. The Bishop of Manchester said Christmas must not become a 'prop in a dim culture war'. Giles Fraser, a prominent London vicar, said he would refuse Mr Robinson communion at his altar rail.
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Young Bob, real name Thomas Moffitt, is in some ways a Right-wing version of Greta Thunberg, but without the scowl. He is cheerful, polite, brave and, inevitably, has attracted the attentions of Left-wing activists keen to do him down. At a London School of Economics event he says he had urine and glue thrown at him, and the pressure group Hope Not Hate obtained recordings of him saying rude things about Mr Robinson and other magnificoes of the Christian Right. Big Tommy was quick to forgive him – as a good churchgoer should – and called Moffitt 'a young man who deserves all of our support'.
For a religion often said to be in terminal decline in Britain, the polling figures about youth churchgoing intentions are astonishing – and, surely, welcome. But not by those senior clergy mentioned above. The Guardian newspaper discerned a 'far-Right misappropriation of Christian imagery'. The likes of Rowan Williams and the Bishop of Manchester fear that Tommy Robinson may be piggybacking on Jesus to promote nefarious political ends.
Considering the Guardian is a socialist crap pile, and the aforementioned "We must not be too strict about actual religion in this church" officials, who seem to be all leftists, that's a recommendation.
I asked a cousin of mine why he and his 20-something university friends had discovered an interest in churchgoing. It was nothing to do with Scripture or tongues or Pentecostal fire. His answer was simply: 'We want to defend our culture.' They were fed up with their Christian heritage being ignored and diminished by their university authorities. Dribbly middle-of-the-road Anglicanism won't cut it for them. They want a religion that is proud of its values and doesn't shrivel in the face of political correctness.
And they are not alone. In September the Unite the Kingdom march in London attracted vast crowds. News organisations reported at length that Tommy Robinson was involved. There was less attention paid to the preponderance, on that march, of crosses and banners bearing Biblical quotations.
Which is apparently what really bothers said High Officials. And which must have the Labour Party and a bunch of the Tories crapping themselves.
Found this piece at
Kim's place, and it's worth reading it all.
