Wishful thinking: a post-Christian era

27 September 2011

The relentless march of Newspeak aims to remove the Lord Jesus Christ out of daily life - even in the way we write the date.

The BBC is in the van of this charge.  During the BBC coverage of the Labour leader’s speech at the Labour Party Conference today, a BBC spokesman said that the BBC is now using CE (Common Era) instead of A.D. (Anno Domini, Latin for ‘in the year of the Lord’) and BCE (Before the Common Era) instead of B.C. (Before Christ).

The demeaning of Christian terms, air-brushing unwanted terms out of the picture, and redefining terms such as marriage show that words matter.  It is part of the humanist agenda, who are trying to persuade the public that we are no longer a Christian country or that we are in a post-Christian era.

While the Scottish Parliament wants to redefine marriage, Ed Miliband began his leader’s speech to the Labour Party Conference today with a humourous reference to his getting married after the birth of his second child.  The Conference erupted in applause.  Then to reinforce these values, he said: “Look, it’s 2011 – get over it!” (greater applause and cheers).  This is what we can expect from Labour.

The Labour Party leader gave no hint in his speech that he even knew that Scotland existed.  In claiming that only Ed Balls had criticised the Tory cuts, and that the NHS was not safe under David Cameron, he showed that his thinking is not UK-wide but that he thinks as a little Englander.  Thankfully many English people have a wider vision than this.

It is, of course, humanistic wishful thinking that we have entered the post-Christian era.  The fact is that we are a Christian country and there is no reason on earth why we should let it slip out of our hands.  Our Commander-in-Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ, is not retiring off this global field any time soon.  He encourages His Church:

“Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the world”
Matthew 28:20

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    • Update:
    On the next day of the Labour Party Conference, Ed Miliband answered a question on Scottish independence, possibly in response to the complaint that he had failed to mention Scotland in his first leader’s speech.  However he forgot the name of the front runner in the Scottish Labour leadership race.  This reinforces the thought that he does not think UK-wide, and it adds to the feeling that he is not a safe pair of hands.  It is being dubbed ‘the Miligaffe’.

  • 16 Dec 2011 Prime Minister David Cameron reaffirmed that the UK is a Christian country. 

  • 25 Dec 2011 the Queen gave the most overtly Christian message in decades in her annual address on 25th December.

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