Is the UK Overthrowing the Christian Basis of the West?
by Giulio Meotti • December 18, 2017 at 5:00 am
- As the progressive publication Prospect asked, "if we are no longer a Christian country, what are we?"
- Christians in the UK are on course to be in the minority by the middle of the century.
- What defines Europe are its boundaries – not physical but cultural. Without its culture, Europe could not be distinguished from the rest of the world. And the pillar of this culture is based on the Judeo-Christian heritage and values.
Lichfield Cathedral, in Staffordshire, England. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons/David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0)
British
Christian publications have been wondering if we are witnessing the
"extinction of Christianity in Egypt", where the Christian faithful have
suffered persecution and terror attacks at the hands of Islamic
fundamentalists. Christian leaders also seem to be wondering if
Christianity will be "extinct within a generation" in the UK, where
religious people enjoy total freedom of worship and faith.
Last
year, the Church of England began to formulate a religious revolution.
Its canonical laws require that British churches hold their functions
every Sunday.
The dramatic crisis of Christianity in the UK, however, is pushing the
Anglican church to rewrite those rules, in order not to officiate in
empty and abandoned churches.
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