Christianity 'discriminated against by Gordon Brown's Government'

[Lord Nelson]

Christianity is being discriminated against by the Government in favour of Islam and other minority faiths, according to a landmark Church of England report.
The damning critique of Labour, which is endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, says ministers are only paying "lip service" to the Anglican Church while "focusing intently" on other religions.
And in an end to decades of tension between the Church and the Conservatives, the comprehensive study praises the Tories for their "strident" approach to combating poverty.
Instead it says it is Labour which is failing to acknowledge the breakdown in society and excluding vital religious voices.The report urges the Government to appoint a minister for religion, who would serve as the Prime Minister's faith envoy and utilise the untapped reserves of volunteers in churches and charities.

It states: "We encountered on the part of the Government a significant lack of understanding, or interest in, the Church of England's current or potential contribution in the public sphere.
"Indeed we were told that Government had consciously decided to focus...almost exclusively on minority religions."

The highly critical report, titled Moral, But No Compass - a twist on Mr Brown's claim to have a "moral compass" - carries significant weight as it has been endorsed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and expresses the views of three-quarters of the Church's bishops.

It echoes claims made by the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, last week that the decline of Christian values is destroying Britishness and has created a "moral vacuum" which radical Islam is filling.

The report, which has been seen by The Daily Telegraph, says that while the Government has tried to improve social cohesion, it has failed to appreciate the potential contribution of Christian groups to the "civic health and wellbeing" of society.
"We were told that while capacity studies had been undertaken by Government with regard to British Islam, similar studies had not been carried out for any of the UK's largest faith communities.
"If what we were told is correct, the churches simply do not register on the policy-making radar in serious terms.
"The Government has focused so intensely on minority faiths that it has failed to develop a coherent evidence base for the largest religious body in the UK, the Christian church."
The report adds: "The government is planning blind and failing parts of civil society. The government has good intentions, but is moral without a compass.
"Every participant in our study from the Church agreed that there was deep 'religious illiteracy' on the part of the Government."
A report published in 1985 damned Thatcherism for the growing spiritual and economic poverty in Britain.

Christianity 'discriminated against by Gordon Brown's Government' - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2085597/Christianity-%27discriminated-against-by-Gordon-Brown%27s-Government%27.html)

[Lord Nelson]

Now that they see their numbers dwindle, the leaders of the Church of England seem to be finally opening their eyes and seeing that by supporting the politically correct society they have been working against themselves. Now they are accusing the government of promoting an anti-Christian message by relegating Christianity and praising Islam a bit too much and they ask for a Government Minister in Charge of Religious Affairs.
I have to concur with some of the feelings expressed by the Church of England by saying that promoting same gender couples, in-vitro fertilization and fertility treatment for homosexual female couples, adoption of children by homosexual couples, the Labour government has not shown the slightest interest in promoting Christian values, but this lack of interest in Christianity comes from the very top. Prince Charles himself has very often said that he does not see himself as a representative of the Church of England, but more as a promoter of all faiths.

Not withstanding what happens outside the Church of England, the Church of England should look more closely at what the Church of England itself has been doing that has little to do with promoting Christianity to the point that huge divisions have been created every time the very same leaders have chosen to be more politically correct instead of supporting Christian principles.

Christ said it very clearly: you either choose the way to God or you choose the ways of the World. The Church of England has been choosing the ways of the World much too often and choosing the wider path instead of the narrow path Jesus talked about. The so called Modernisation Movement is the Devil’s way and this is why those who need strong moral values have been walking away from the Church of England.

I welcome this wake up call of the Church of England and I hope that from now on the British National Party will be welcomed in every husting organized by the Church of England. We have been saying all along that Christianity is being eroded and we are fighting to keep Christian values alive and well in Britain.

[pauli007001]

Well is anyone surprised in this report?
For as long as i can remember we have had our way of life,culture and faith called into disrepute and ridicule!
Going back to the seventies i can remember being told that the new kids at school who didnt speak english(many became my mates and neigbours)were from a vastly superior culture than ours,and we learned about this culture,eating habits,cultural behaviour etc,we never learned about our culture,the yorkshire culture,this was diluted in my lifetime,via the education system.At school in yorkshire in the seventies we were forbidden to speak to eachother in TYKE(traditional Yorkshire dialect).The middle class snobs and champagne socialists didnt like it!Standard english became the way forward.We say ourselves portrayed as dimwitted retards with personal hygene issues on tv comedies and soaps(Last of the summer wine and emmerdale farm episodes in the seventies).This was social engineering and brainwashing of the highest degree!
Today youkshire is a culturless wastegroung compared with what it was in my youth,it is unsafe ,violent,polluted in fact it is what the government made it,destroyed,today they are targeting the rest of the nation,england first.They will do to England what they did to yorkshire,then soo will follow scotland and wales,then it will be EU(ssr)all the way.
The church and its moral teaching will put people on guard against the immorality of the EU,so this must be destroyed,no by violence but by using government propeganda(BBC)to brainwash people to despise their faith.Violence can help of course so cultivate a radical group and show it that it can get away with violence/terror,so a two pronged attack on our faith,propeganda/ridicule from the government and Violence from their allies in radical islamic organisations!!
And ey ahm not laiking abaht on this one lad!Tha wants to watch tha sen!!!!

[Tacitus]

They should discriminate against ALL Middle East peasent religions equally.

Send the bloody LOT back to their chavy desert slums.

christian, jew, muslim.

[pauli007001]

They should discriminate against ALL Middle East peasent religions equally.

Send the bloody LOT back to their chavy desert slums.

christian, jew, muslim.

Can we also discriminate against unelected PMs and send them anywhere but number 10?
Cant argue with your logic on this post though matey!!:)