The Methodists do not seem to understand that Christianity and the Holy Bible no more supports the replacement of the native population by incoming hordes, than it does the displacement of the BRITISH to the outer rim of their cities and country. The Methodists seem to have read the individual ethics of the Bible as if that were its guide to political theory - the way a state or nation should be governed.
But the Christian faith has things to say to statesmen as well as to private individuals; and the Methodist failure to distinguish between the two has led them to condemn patriotic parties, such as the BNP, and to countenance policies which will see the denigration of the native population in its own national and historic homeland. If they applied the same lack of discrimination to the State of Israel, that state would be destroyed by being swamped by Muslim immigration! And that, most certainly, is not Jehovah's will.
Loving the stranger, as the Bible says, is all very well when there are few of them, and their stay is temporary; but when it comes to the current things that are happening, we need to step back from the canvass and realise that this is something which needs a very different and more apposite answer based upon the Bible's own teaching upon nations.
Such an answer is provided by the BNP, not the Methodists: we need to stop immigration and it needs to be done NOW!
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Methodist Muddle
The decision of Christchurch Methodist Church to exclude members of the British National Party from their Church's membership, on the grounds that the party is allegedly a racist party, is both extreme and extremely muddled.
There is nothing racist about wanting to say "no" to further immigration and to removing illegal immigrants, who should not be in Britain in the first place.
Moreover, people's political views should not be "policed" by the pastor of a church. His job is to support what the Bible teaches and to drive away from his parish what the Bible is against.
But the Bible is not against nations, nor are nations (such as the children/descendents of Israel) racist. Jesus said that we are to take the gospel to the nations, not that every nation should come here. And if the Methodist pastor thinks that distinct and identifiable nations are racist, then whatever will he make of the concept of the "chosen Nation" through whom our Lord came by God's most holy will?
Do I detect the rise of anti-Semitism here? Only the Biblically-muddled Methodists can answer that one; but that is where they are heading!
There is nothing racist about wanting to say "no" to further immigration and to removing illegal immigrants, who should not be in Britain in the first place.
Moreover, people's political views should not be "policed" by the pastor of a church. His job is to support what the Bible teaches and to drive away from his parish what the Bible is against.
But the Bible is not against nations, nor are nations (such as the children/descendents of Israel) racist. Jesus said that we are to take the gospel to the nations, not that every nation should come here. And if the Methodist pastor thinks that distinct and identifiable nations are racist, then whatever will he make of the concept of the "chosen Nation" through whom our Lord came by God's most holy will?
Do I detect the rise of anti-Semitism here? Only the Biblically-muddled Methodists can answer that one; but that is where they are heading!
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