Enjoying life as a Christian in modern Britain
It won’t be long before we Christians can claim asylum in other countries for being victimised and persecuted because of our beliefs.
Ben & Sharon Vogelenzang acquitted at the cost of £400k.
I guess unless you are a hard-core Secular Fundamentalist you’d have to posses at least a little sympathy for the couple accused of “Hate Crime” against a Muslim lady and consequently dragged through the courts by a determined CPS and Police force.
The couple were cleared of the “crime” of expressing opinions but now face £400′000 debt because of this false accusation.
They now hold the common held belief that if you are a practicing Christian and you express an opinion about your faith or discuss your faith with anyone then you are guilty of a “Hate Crime” yet, those that persecute us are themselves guilty of hate using the same logic they espouse.
Such is the care and love of the secular and the “other religions” that…
They have received abusive emails and threats of violence and are anxious to return to some semblance of normality.
They continue…
It is all to do with political correctness. Minority groups seem to be treated fairly, but people like us in the majority groups are being pushed to one side. It is completely unbalanced.
And me? It feels very much as if because I am a Christian, I am somehow less worthy of free speech and right of expression that those of other or no faiths. I know, I know you would say as a “no faith” person “But I don’t want YOUR faith shoved down my throat” and I would say “hear hear” but when my friend, does “having a discussion or exchange of views” become a Hate Crime? When does caring about people and offering to pray for them become a crime worthy of suspension and investigation?
I had a chat with a friend about 2 years ago who was complaining about the school that their child attends, about having to have “Worship” every day and say Grace before lunch, and even the home time prayer. his view was that Worship, prayer and Christian ethics should not be imbued within the life of a church school. When asked why he sent this child there he said because it was the best school in the area, with the best results. I suspect he wants the best of both worlds. He wants the results of a Christian education, the respect, the caring, the discipline that the school offers but he does not want the “religiosity” that goes with it.
He calls himself a humanist.
No doubt some would say “He is entitled to expect a non-religious arena for his child to learn in” and yup, he is. But when a church school performs better, and gives more to the children BECAUSE it is a church school and not a state run, secular “respect driven” namby-pamby liberal school espousing theories and teachings that lead to a lack of social cohesion, a lack of responsibility and a lack of control over new generations then, does that make him a hypocrite to demand inclusion JUST to the advantage of his children?
It is not the child’s fault that the parents demand a secular society but want the best of both worlds and I would not stop a child going to a faith school if they do not share that faith. I would however suggest respectfully that as parents demand religion plays less and less part in society today, so parents should “keep out” of matters of religion if they themselves have none.
Want to send your child to a faith school? Live with what they do or don’t send you child along.
Being a Christian does NOT mean being a push-over and, pulling the “be nice to us, love us and let us use your schools and churches as WE want” card as you deride our faith and our import to society is beyond the hypocritical pale.
That is what is wrong with Britain today. The “Liberal” ( and for Liberal you can usually but not always read, closet fascists who demands freedoms on their terms and who demands the minority view is held disproportionately powerful) are trying to create something out of nothing – they can’t and that frustrates them.
Society without imbued rules, boundaries and precepts is no society at all.
The start of the school day
You cannot legislate conscience, you cannot penalise people for believing something, you cannot control the mind and what people think.
The great lie of society today is that we are liberal, we are open and sharing. Look around, we are not.
The great social experiment that is New Labour and Socialism has failed and in it’s failing still, it has taken our once great society with it. The education of our children is a byword for social engineering, the aim of the state is now control not freedom, the secular fascist mentality pervades high-office and local councils to the point that to profess faith is to be seen as something less than human.
How long will it be before those who do not believe in Man Made Global Warming are made illegal, where AGW denial is put on a par with Holocaust denial? What do all those scientists and Carbon Trading companies possibly have to gain?
Honesty, the best policy?
Anyway as an aside I was called “an idiot who has no desire to be enlightened or to see beyond your own biased world-view” the other day by a learned and erudite friend after a long and drawn out conversation about whether God exists or not. His position was that God does not exists and I should stop believing in a “fairy in the sky”. MY position was that we ALL believe in things we cannot see, but perhaps some of us are more open about the God we worship.
You see I think he sees science as the new “God”, a god that can change it’s position, is malleable but should be seen as THE authority on things. He thinks that we were not created because we cannot see the creator, we cannot quantify Him and we cannot parlay with Him on a scientific level.
God, yesterday
Our discussion ended on an impasse because I pointed out that he had faith in what science told him, I had faith that God speaks to me through the Bible. He had faith in things being created by chance, I had faith in things being created with purpose. He would have me believe that it is more probable to find a fully functioning computer (infinitely less complex than a human body) appearing in his spare room as a result of blind cosmic chance than that it was created and put there. He would have me believe that I am an idiot for believing in that which I cannot see or prove, I said he was not one to talk given his own inability to see EVEN his nose.
Humanists….we love them as we love all people 
Anyway, it’s almost CHRISTMAS, the time when we celebrate the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ. With that in mind, on MY blog on the Internet I would like to say that I hope The Lord blesses you this Christmas (Winterval, Holiday season whatever you want to call it), that you discover the peace that passes all understanding and that this year if you don’t already, you may come to know God as He is expressed through Christ our Lord.
And well, if you DON’T believe and DON’T celebrate Christmas, have fun at work….you WILL be going to work instead of taking advantage of a celebration of the center-piece of the Christian faith won’t you – oh wait, why SHOULD you eh 
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Anyway, rant over.
Pax
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