Baroness Warsi has urged Britain to embrace faith through being a country that is proud of religion.
Ignore the Torygraph spin in their headline by Christopher Hope who ridiculously attempts to smear Warsi by claiming she as a Muslim is urging Britain to be more Christian, coverage which causes in part the nutters in our community to attack her with eggs.
The context of the article is about embracing faith and since this is a Christian country it goes without saying when you are addressing the 95% of the population who are nominal Christians what she is urging them to do is stop the drift towards secularism and cynicism which has and continues to destroy the fabric of a cohesive society.
The difficulty of course is when a Muslim attempts to overcompensate by telling a Christian nation to go back to its roots, all manner of hostile characters including Muslims will point the finger at her being a Christian rather than a Muslim. In reality, Warsi is pointing the finger at a Christian nation and saying shame on you for abandoning your faith. As a result, her message is a return to Christian values of tolerance will see a healthier attitude and discourse towards all Minorities negating the ability of the EDL to flourish which is why I support her in urging faith to be a central tenet for an individual and society.
*Update* Warsi should have spoken about the Chauffeur - driven Bishop of London and a Church who refuse sanctuary for peaceful protesters as perhaps one reason why so many are giving up on what has become an international corporation in the best traditions of Godfather 3 and its depiction of the shady manner the Vatican deals with its finances.
Both christianity and islam are recent inventions. If Britain is going to go back to its religious roots it ought to go back to its pagan roots.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's you or Warsi or both that believes in "Christian values of tolerance". Whoever does is a deluded ignoramus. Traditional christian values of tolerance consist of "Heads I win; tails I burn you alive."
Paganism is just an umbrella term to collectively & conveniently describe an often contradictory jumbled mish-mash of capricious rival cults.
ReplyDeleteGoing back to so-called pagan roots is devolving into something anarchic that Christianity managed to unify. Look what happened to the Nazi attempt to go back to their "roots".
Once you have something good, keep it, or find something better, don't go back to a sentimental savagery.
Paganism is no more jumbled and confusedor sentimentality savage than christianity or islam. However, if people are to go "back to their roots", paganism is where they must go. As for "christian tolerance", only someone who knows nothing of history would use a fatuous phrase like that.
ReplyDeleteMuslims like Warsi don't understand Christianity or Christian doctrines they have their own invalid assumptions and sterotypes. Considering history, recent and longer term, it is amazing Christians are not more extreme in their hostility to Muslims. People are watching the attacks on Christians in Pakistan, Iraq, Indonesia. Eygpt, Nigeria, ad nauseum from that hostility toward Muslims will continue to grow. I heard students refering to Islam as the "religion of Hate" the other day, as a play on the "religion of Peace" campaign.
ReplyDelete"Warsi should have spoken about the Chauffeur - driven Bishop of London and a Church who refuse sanctuary for peaceful protesters as perhaps one reason why so many are giving up on what has become an international corporation in the best traditions of Godfather 3 and its depiction of the shady manner the Vatican deals with its finances."
ReplyDeletePerhaps Warsi- unlike you- knew that the Bishop of London is a senior member of the Church of England and has no connection with the Vatican.
Unfortunately, the C of E St Pauls does resemble the Catholic Vatican in its Byzantine-like (I know Orthodox ;-)) mafia-like links to Big Business.
ReplyDeleteThat is why so many have said that the anti-Capitalist protestors are being turfed out based on trumped up health & safety charges.
Naturally the Corporate MSM, part & parcel of the incestuous Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) is downplaying that connection.
Paganism is far more of a confusing hotch-potch than most other faiths. It just a catch-all umbrella term for the jumble that does not go anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteIt is far less coherent e.g. allowing conflicting & contradictory pathways to diverse, often mutually exclusive aims.
Logically, if words have any meaning, how can anything be MORE incoherent than that?
It is sentimental, because any regression to paganism is just that.
It is savagery, because it is fully consonanant with the definition of unrestricted e.g. contrast & compare all the divergent weird cults. They are not unified, except in their lack of structure.
The last thing this nation needs this is greater division & lack of commonality, or we will disintegrate back to the days before Christianity united these Isles. Which history do we the English want, surely one that united them in the first place, not a pagan ragbag, quite the farrago.
Not for us thankyou very much, you can keep your higgle-piggle.