Pray for England

Pray for England
In pursuit of the Truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Living in a De-Christianized Society”
Rome, July 5th, 2009 (Zenit.org). By Father John Flynn, LC – Selected excerpts

Britain is no longer a Christian nation, affirmed Anglican bishop, Paul Richardson, in an article published Jun. 27 in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

ONLY AROUND 1% OF ANGLICANS ATTEND SUNDAY SERVICE ON AVERAGE, according to Richardson. “At this rate it is hard how to see the church surviving for more than 30 years though few of its leaders are prepared to face that possibility,” he warned.

He also noted that out of every 1,000 live births in England and Wales in the period 2006-07 only 128 were baptized as Anglicans. This compares to 609 per thousand in 1900.

Just the day before, in the Times newspaper, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, deplored the lack of a shared moral code in Britain... the loss of traditional values of morality.

We are very moral in some things, such as world poverty and global warming, but these are remote and global…. When it comes to matters closer to our own lives WE HAVE LOST OUR SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG REGARDING OUR PERSONAL BEHAVIOR.

“Instead, there are choices. The market facilitates those choices. The state handles the consequences, picking up the pieces when they go wrong.”

It’s no use just treating the symptoms with more laws and surveillance systems. “WITHOUT A SHARED MORAL CODE THERE CAN BE NO FREE SOCIETY,” Sacks argued.

A study carried out by Penguin books, albeit in conjunction with the promotion of a recent book on the topic, said that nearly two-thirds of teenagers do not believe in God.

According to the Jun. 22 report in the Telegraph paper the study of 1,000 teens showed that 59% thought religion has a negative influence on the world.

The survey also revealed that half of those questioned have never prayed and 16% have never been to church…About 60% were unaware of the story of the Good Samaritan & figures such as Abraham & Joseph were also foreign to many.

George H. Kubeck.
P.S. Pray for America: That we will not become an ACLU America or Catholic-in-name-only Politician America. Pray for President Obama. “I am a Christian.” “We are not a Christian nation.” Obama hid the symbol of Christ (I.H.S.) when he spoke at a Catholic university and was kind of so-so during the National Day of Prayer, the first Thursday in May, 2009