Fr. Tomlinson SSC on a Roll

Thank you, Father, for speaking out and being faithful and bold witness for Christ and the truth. May God protect you from the onslought of persecution that would come because of your faithful witness! God bless you, Father! There is nothing that I could add to this. I hope and pray the world and the media print it.

St. Barnabas Blog.

Like any political party Labour will have both supporters and critics from within the Church. But personally I find it impossible to endorse them from a Christian perspective. For this is the party who have overseen a massive shift towards a more secular and atheistic culture. Under Labour a new police state has emerged and we are now the most spied on people in the West. Furthermore this is the first British Government in living memory who can put you in prison without trial. This fact, coupled with the rising intolerance of Christians (and it is specifically Christians), should worry us deeply. Indeed the seeds of persecution are beginning to flower; first the air hostess banned for wearing a cross, then the nurse humiliated and forced to go to tribunal for offering to pray for someone, then the school secretary sacked because her child speaks about God, and the refusal to ban ‘Jerry Springer the Opera’ (in which Christ was depicted in a giant nappy with Mary simulating a sex act on him)…all of these point to something disturbing and new in the British way of life. Are we seeing the beginnings of liberal extremism?

The 20th Century was a time when human thinking was often followed to extremes at the cost of great bloodshed. We saw right wing philosophy pushed to extremes in Nazi Germany and we saw left wing philosophy pushed to extreme under Pol Pot and Stalin. In all such instances it led to darkness and death of a frightening nature. What man, in his folly, has yet to do is take liberal philosophy to extremes. But as I view the Western World, and the direction it moves in today, there is a danger it might get there in the near future. Such a regime would be truly frightening. Using the language of freedom and tolerance, free speech would die. Only the inclusive could thrive, and this ‘inclusivity’ would be a narrowly defined doctrine given from on high. Anyone daring to speak out- for Christ, the family, etc will be dealt with accordingly. And before we say, ‘this could never happen’… we might ask if the Jews thought the same in 1930.

Labour have been a total disaster for the Christian. How Tony Blair can claim to be Christian having admitted he was too cowardly to mention God in office is laughable. What sort of faith is it that only professes Christ once retired? Our faith schools are under threat and we have been pushed into the margins of societal life. But even this is as nothing compared to what has been done to the family; marriage has been watered down by quick and easy divorce, the invention of civil partnerships, the ending of family tax credits, wholesale support of abortion and the economic changes that ensure mothers cannot afford to stay at home- meaning children are farmed out to State controlled nurseries…where faith is delivered in the typical secular way. The result of all this can be seen on the streets on any given night. We are creating a narcissistic generation, puffed up on their rights and utterly negligent concerning their duty. This is broken Britain.

Today in the Mail (yes I know its the paper everyone loves to hate) there is an article worthy of note. It demonstrates clearly how families are suffering under this government. Let us hope this sort of information mobilises the great British public to say ‘enough is enough’. It is time that every TRUE liberal spoke out. We need to reclaim a society of free speech and genuine tolerance based on our Christian heritage. It is time we recognised the good work churches do and fund them appropriately. It is time we back the family and stop rewarding the dysfunctional more than the balanced. The family has always been the bedrock of healthy society- and Christianity is a faith and philosophy which endorses the family. So let us jettison the individualistic, atheistic and secular militantism which threatens to choke the life of this country….do that and the C of E might turn the corner too! For our limp and pathetic church only ever seem to play the lapdog, pathetically mirroring the views of whoever sits in power. This article is not an attack on left wing politics..hold them dear if you must. It is an attack on the new philosophy of rampant individualism, relativism, secularism and intolerance.