While regrettable, your experience of some idiot fanatic doesn't count. As well make Jack T.Chick the standard for American Protestantism. (And some Europeans do. Incredibly, I could introduce you to a lecturer in North Irish studies from the University of Tubingen who has described the Methodist George W.Bush as a "fundamentalist" - God help us all.) My point is that if I were to declare myself a credente in my native country, my embarrassment would be that I do not come up to the level that we all, including the opponents of the Catholic Church, expect of credenti. But even my opponents would not instinctively regard me as infantile, ignorant, or backward, and they would not be surprised - as a good friend of mine from Canada was - that I do not believe in the six-day creation. And I still think that you do not realize the depth of ignorance, prejudice and contempt that is routinely bred into English minds by the school system, the BBC, and the newspapers. You believe that the local survivals you encounter are typical. I am certain that they are not. The only lively Christian communities in Britain are immigrant, and that is reflected in the swiftly growing number of Anglican ecclesiastics of immigrant background - reaching, by now, as far up as the Archbishop of York. It is becoming impossible to find native Englishmen who go to church on Sunday, even in the villages that have always been supposed to be the heartland of English Anglicanism.
and so on. This kind of hate speech from government has become quite common, and the only consolation is that as they are as incompetent and gutless as they are loud-mouthed, it will be a long time before their chatter can be taken seriously.
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Re: As for the Tory Blur's comfortable conversion - and your earlier comments.
Date: 2008-04-16 07:03 pm (UTC)AS for the Government's attitude to the Church and to Christianity in general - since you insist -
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/590381/witchfinder-balls.thtml
http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/search?q=Homosexual+activists+want+Catholic+schools+closed
and so on. This kind of hate speech from government has become quite common, and the only consolation is that as they are as incompetent and gutless as they are loud-mouthed, it will be a long time before their chatter can be taken seriously.