Considering most of the hierarchy of the Anglican Church cannot surrender fast enough,

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.

One more politics thing and then I'm done for a while

Someone I know has been going through the "How could a Christian vote for Trump?" thing, and I remembered something from the 2016 period.

There was a lot of the same thing going around then, much of the "Oh, brothers and sisters, how can you?" from the same sources as now*, and one guy got an answer.  He'd mentioned he knew a bunch of evangelical Christian people, some who he greatly respected, and he kept asking them that question; some basically said "You just don't understand"(he truly didn't), some refused to go into it, but one man gave him a hard answer, something like
"He's divorced, he's slept around, he's not the kind of man you respect normally, how could you vote for him?"
Hard look.  "Because he doesn't look on us as the enemy, and the other side does."

A hard, simple answer.  The guy admitted that he hadn't really considered that before, but it made sense to him that in a choice between someone who considers you someone to be either altered or gotten rid of and someone who considered you another American who has care for the country, you'd vote for the latter.  Even if he's not what you would consider a good man.

I'd told that to the lady back then, and she either couldn't understand it, or couldn't accept it.  Apparently she still can't.


*A source she used to beat people with is a 'Christianity Today' or something site that, if I recall, has an awful lot of leftist crap added in.  Considering they seemed to have no trouble supporting Hillary Clinton, and Biden, I doubt a lot of people they're supposedly talking to consider them a fine resource on how to think and believe.