The Arch Bishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has suddenly decided that the UK is in moral decline. Not exactly a new observation, but coming from an organisation that has hardly any influence in preventing that decline, and in many cases can be seen to have encouraged it, it’s a little rich.
The Church of England (C of E) appears to have ceased to hold biblical Christianity at its core anymore. Despite a passive Christianity, which leads over fifty percent of the UK to still say that they believe in Christ and God, religious attendances are generally in decline, with a few exceptions, mainly on the Catholic and Evangelical wings and Islam of course.
I will back that statement up with a few observations:
The promise of the Episcopal Church in the US "not to bless same sex unions or make anymore homosexual Bishops" is rather hollow as the principal has already been set. Certainly the African Anglicans don't believe it.
Once something that is described as an abomination in the Bible, is now accepted as OK for a Priest or Bishop, then which part of “Revelations” are we in? Well that’s how the ‘conservatives’ see it. So it appears that the Church is part of the very problem that Dr Williams is complaining about. Even a Vicar appears to have problems with the Churches Approach. Rev Julie Nicholson a vicar has given up her post because after the murder of her child in the London 7/7 terrorist bombings, she can neither forgive the murdering bastards who did it, nor accept that she should 'have' to do so as a vicar.
Would an Islamist forgive? I doubt it, turning the other cheek for them means their ass cheeks, not forgiveness. It's part of the weakness of the West's moral position, that it no longer hits back when attacked, no matter how mindless the attacks. Can anyone imagine a Victorian Minister taking violence off the natives? No, I thought not.
As for moral decline in society, then we only have to look at the world of the media, especially TV to see how moral values have declined. Being on TV or a politician appears to raise you above consequences (except for paedophiles). Here are examples of ‘celebrities’ whose behaviour would probably have finished their media or political careers in the past.
Richard Bacon – A children’s TV presenter for whom allegations of cocaine usage only led to an upsurge of his career with the BBC.
Craig Charles – An actor (Red Dwarf) for whom a police caution about possession of a class “A” drug, as well as other high profile court cases have never dented his employability.
George Michael - arrested in 1998 for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public restroom in a Beverly Hills city park. Sells as many records as ever, and no doubt I will live to see the day he gets a knighthood if he doesn't die first.
Angus Deighton - A comedian fired from a quiz show after revelations of cocaine-snorting and having sex with a couple of women. Keeps making partial comebacks and sooner or later will succeed.
John Prescott - British Deputy Prime Minister, was revealed in to have had an affair with a female Civil Servant. Further allegations of harassment emerged in April 2006 – He never even hinted at resignation, and will probably end up in the house of Lords.
Peter Mandelson – British Politician. Money scandals, and passports for ‘friends’ took him out of government, but amazingly straight into a job on the European Commission. His sexuality and the ease with which his ‘partner’ got a British passport, was apparently not considered a resignation issue these days.
Examples from the less recent past where careers were ended because of ‘moral outrage’.
Frank Bough - A BBC reporter, reported in 1993 to have had sex with prostitutes while using cocaine and dressed in female underwear – see Angus Deighton.
John Leslie - TV Presenter, 2002 rape scandal, despite being cleared due to lack of evidence, his career never recovered only for it to end with a further sex scandal which killed his career off as a result – See Craig Charles.
Leslie Grantham - (British Actor) Posed for suggestive videos on the internet in 2004.
Cecil Parkinson - British Politician resigned from the government cabinet after it was revealed he had fathered a child with his Secretary, and reneged on a promise to marry her. The revelation destroyed Parkinson's political career (See Prescott for the new morality on ministers and civil servants).
The 1963 Profumo Affair - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo attempted to cover up his use of a call-girl.
Lord Lambton - A minister in the UK government of Edward Heath, was forced to resign in disgrace in 1973 after it was revealed he had used prostitutes and marijuana.
Michael Barrymore - A UK comedian who at the hight of his TV popularity came out from behind his beard, and declared himself to be ‘gay’. This initially didn’t damage his career, but he then appeared in a series of high profile incidents, allegedly involving drinks or drugs, culminating in a ‘party’ at his house in which a young man was violently sexually assaulted and killed. The murderer is still at large.
I suspect that the new morality is set by media and politicians themselves …. ‘Luvvies’ can get away with anything, non luvvies go down, and stay down. You can decide yourself why some stay of the above have failed to make a comeback, while others are given work again.
The Church of England (C of E) appears to have ceased to hold biblical Christianity at its core anymore. Despite a passive Christianity, which leads over fifty percent of the UK to still say that they believe in Christ and God, religious attendances are generally in decline, with a few exceptions, mainly on the Catholic and Evangelical wings and Islam of course.
I will back that statement up with a few observations:
- Less that one hundred years ago, in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, when the C of E still had the moral and intellectual strength that Dr Williams appears to want again, the church would not have let a militant Islam murder Christians around the globe without calling for an armed response.
- It would also not have stood by while radical Islam conquered the inner cities in the UK, and threatened to displace it as the most practised religion.
- Now the church, in its desperation to get some ‘numbers’ will baptise children, even when one of the parents is not a professed Christian. The truth is that in many cases both of these parents have never been to a church, and no longer understand the services, but the church can’t afford to have morals or scruples over this anymore.
- The squabble over the ordination of women is bit strange in a way, because the very early church had deaconesses, but then it removed women from the power structure. So for 1700 yrs the Church was a male domain, in the tradition of Judaism from which it stemmed.
- So, it ill behoves the C of E to introduce another set of divisions into its relations with Rome and the other Anglican unions (such as Africa), when there was no doctrinal need to. Christianity is under attack, and division helps only those who would see it defeated. The ordination of Homosexuals, some of whom have lied about their activism in order to be ordained, was not only politically stupid, but scripturally a bit unsound.
The promise of the Episcopal Church in the US "not to bless same sex unions or make anymore homosexual Bishops" is rather hollow as the principal has already been set. Certainly the African Anglicans don't believe it.
Once something that is described as an abomination in the Bible, is now accepted as OK for a Priest or Bishop, then which part of “Revelations” are we in? Well that’s how the ‘conservatives’ see it. So it appears that the Church is part of the very problem that Dr Williams is complaining about. Even a Vicar appears to have problems with the Churches Approach. Rev Julie Nicholson a vicar has given up her post because after the murder of her child in the London 7/7 terrorist bombings, she can neither forgive the murdering bastards who did it, nor accept that she should 'have' to do so as a vicar.
Would an Islamist forgive? I doubt it, turning the other cheek for them means their ass cheeks, not forgiveness. It's part of the weakness of the West's moral position, that it no longer hits back when attacked, no matter how mindless the attacks. Can anyone imagine a Victorian Minister taking violence off the natives? No, I thought not.
As for moral decline in society, then we only have to look at the world of the media, especially TV to see how moral values have declined. Being on TV or a politician appears to raise you above consequences (except for paedophiles). Here are examples of ‘celebrities’ whose behaviour would probably have finished their media or political careers in the past.
Richard Bacon – A children’s TV presenter for whom allegations of cocaine usage only led to an upsurge of his career with the BBC.
Craig Charles – An actor (Red Dwarf) for whom a police caution about possession of a class “A” drug, as well as other high profile court cases have never dented his employability.
George Michael - arrested in 1998 for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public restroom in a Beverly Hills city park. Sells as many records as ever, and no doubt I will live to see the day he gets a knighthood if he doesn't die first.
Angus Deighton - A comedian fired from a quiz show after revelations of cocaine-snorting and having sex with a couple of women. Keeps making partial comebacks and sooner or later will succeed.
John Prescott - British Deputy Prime Minister, was revealed in to have had an affair with a female Civil Servant. Further allegations of harassment emerged in April 2006 – He never even hinted at resignation, and will probably end up in the house of Lords.
Peter Mandelson – British Politician. Money scandals, and passports for ‘friends’ took him out of government, but amazingly straight into a job on the European Commission. His sexuality and the ease with which his ‘partner’ got a British passport, was apparently not considered a resignation issue these days.
Examples from the less recent past where careers were ended because of ‘moral outrage’.
Frank Bough - A BBC reporter, reported in 1993 to have had sex with prostitutes while using cocaine and dressed in female underwear – see Angus Deighton.
John Leslie - TV Presenter, 2002 rape scandal, despite being cleared due to lack of evidence, his career never recovered only for it to end with a further sex scandal which killed his career off as a result – See Craig Charles.
Leslie Grantham - (British Actor) Posed for suggestive videos on the internet in 2004.
Cecil Parkinson - British Politician resigned from the government cabinet after it was revealed he had fathered a child with his Secretary, and reneged on a promise to marry her. The revelation destroyed Parkinson's political career (See Prescott for the new morality on ministers and civil servants).
The 1963 Profumo Affair - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo attempted to cover up his use of a call-girl.
Lord Lambton - A minister in the UK government of Edward Heath, was forced to resign in disgrace in 1973 after it was revealed he had used prostitutes and marijuana.
Michael Barrymore - A UK comedian who at the hight of his TV popularity came out from behind his beard, and declared himself to be ‘gay’. This initially didn’t damage his career, but he then appeared in a series of high profile incidents, allegedly involving drinks or drugs, culminating in a ‘party’ at his house in which a young man was violently sexually assaulted and killed. The murderer is still at large.
I suspect that the new morality is set by media and politicians themselves …. ‘Luvvies’ can get away with anything, non luvvies go down, and stay down. You can decide yourself why some stay of the above have failed to make a comeback, while others are given work again.
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