TWITTERING RELIGIOUS INQUISITION IN BRITAIN
By Julian Mann, Cranmer’s Curate
Religious zeal is the only explanation for the police questioning of a 67-year-old grandmother after she wrote to her local council objecting to a homosexual parade in Norwich. Mrs Howe represents no threat to public order – her offence is against the dogma of the politically-correct inquisition now underway in Britain, instigated by a twittering high priestly caste of homosexual rights activists and diversity enforcers.
Like all spiritually-motivated, idolatrous inquisitions in human history from Nero’s to the Spanish to Stalin’s, the current PC one makes an irrational connection between the expression of an opinion against its religious dogma and acts of criminality, such as the appalling assault on a gay police cadet in Liverpool.
Christians need to be spiritually and mentally prepared for the following:
· Infiltration of our churches and charities by police informers. Some of us may even face denunciation by family members and close friends, as our Lord Jesus Christ warned his disciples in the gospels (cf Mark 13v12-13 and Luke 21v16: ‘You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you will be put to death’ – RSV).
· The temptation to be disrespectful towards the secular authorities and/or withdraw from civic life. The fact that in faithfulness to the Bible’s teaching we will have to risk prosecution under their ‘hate speech’ laws in our churches and in the marketplace of ideas does not mean that we should dismiss the political authorities as totally godless or disengage from society. Intense religious persecution of Christians was the background for the apostolic exhortations to honour political leaders and participate rightly in civic society for the sake of Christian witness (cf Romans 13v1-7; 1 Peter 2v13-17).
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