The Archbishop of Westminster has urged Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with "deep esteem". Believers may be partly responsible for the decline in faith by losing sense of the mystery and treating God as a "fact in the world", he said in a lecture. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor called for more understanding and appreciation between believers and non-believers.
The Archbishop of Westminster has urged Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with "deep esteem".
Believers may be partly responsible for the decline in faith by losing sense of the mystery and treating God as a "fact in the world", he said in a lecture.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor called for more understanding and appreciation between believers and non-believers.
What are they up to saying this, it's a bit of a change from "Burn the heretic" Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I was told by an English person that today some vicars, or whatever it you call them there, are openly atheist. I have a hard time believing this, but the person swore it was true. And in fact, they did have a family friend who was a minister, or whatever it you call them there, who was actually an atheist, and having an affair with a parishioner to boot. I don't get it, really... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
But Church of England is infamous for being more social club than religion - Church of Ireland is possibly even worse.
It's an open secret that many serious and high-ranking theologians understand that the bible "fairy" story as told to the laity is at serious divergence with the original source texts. Their understanding of the relationship god is supposed to have with Jesus and the rest of us wouldn't be recognised as "theistic" by many of the more fundamental literalist religions more commonly found in the USA. Hence they're atheists. keep to the Fen Causeway
you are the media you consume.
The leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales said that a "hidden God" was active in everyone's life.
How about you fuck off? Thanks. Bah.
However-one of the buildings they passed was a Christian community centre. Why, the head asked, did they think it was there?
To make new arrivals feel welcome, piped up the class.
"Because they want to convert them into Christians," said my son.
Oh, dear... :)
is the Lithuanian centre still there? and the synagogue? watching gangs of different factions youth chase each other from community centre to community centre in the early 80's was always entertaining. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
It will be...ahem...interesting to see what happens when the children of recent Eastern European migrants reach their teens. They do face prejudice, both from the indigenous population (if the UK can truly be said to have such a thing) and more established immigrant communities. And it would be fair to say that, in my experience, some of the newly-arrived families have brought their own prejudices against other ethnic minorities with them.
