News from The Kingdom

Pra. Dayse, a friend from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, asked me what my point of view about Christiany today, mostly Christianity in the Great Brittany is. It is a difficul subject. The way I see the Christianity today is a bit controversial. As I see it, British Christianity is well on its way to becoming a minority religion. Several years ago it was reported that more people attended mosques weekly than attended the Church of England, showing that Muslims had already overtaken Anglicans in attendance. Soon, it appears, they will overtake all churchgoers. (more…)

On July 7, British Conservative party leader David Cameron spoke about morality makes a lot of sense. He stated: “We have seen a decades-long erosion of responsibility, of social virtue, of self-discipline, respect for others…Instead we prefer moral neutrality, a refusal to make judgments about what is good and bad behaviour, right and wrong behaviour.

“Bad. Good. Right. Wrong. These are words that our political system and our public sector scarcely use anymore…Refusing to use these words—right and wrong—means a denial of personal responsibility and the concept of moral choice…There is a danger of becoming quite literally a de-moralized society, where nobody will tell the truth anymore about what is good and bad, right and wrong. (more…)