...Cameron went on to say that the King James Bible “bequeathed a body of language” that has influenced every aspect of British culture – literature, music, and art. The Bible has guided Britain’s politics “from human rights and equality to our constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy” and “helped to give Britain a set of values and morals which make Britain what it is today.”
Egads. It's as though the man was reading Benedict XVI's thoughts....
“For too long,” Cameron confessed, “we have been unwilling to distinguish right from wrong” and that “moral neutrality or passive tolerance just isn’t going to cut it anymore.”
...Benedict has argued the European cultural crisis is due to the modern perception that the idea of man is nothing more than a cultural construct. Hence, the pope has written, “the splendor of the fact that he is the image of God – the source of his dignity and of his inviolability – no longer shines upon this man; his only splendor is the power of human capabilities.”
IOW, utilitarianism writ large. B-16 ties that to relativism, which is a logical outgrowth.
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I think that's also been the biggest problem with the church itself. It's unwillingness to judge, or discern if it makes people 'feel' better, was what led to the priests and their NAMBLA-like scandal. Thing is, it's not just the Catholic church that's dealing with that. It is happening in the Protestant church as well. It's called liberalism.
Well, yes.
I would be a bit more 'nuanced': the Church's problem (as it were) is Confession, combined--in most cases--with the fact that priest-confessors are trained to 'forgive'.
That's all very nice, and theologically correct. But it ran into the stone wall of recidivism. And in those cases, it was outright criminality, not "mutually consenting adult" stuff.
Worse---FAR worse---there was the "old boys' club". In a lot of the cases, the homosexual Bishops covered for the homosexual priests, whether due to blackmail or just some sort of wildly-perverted sense of loyalty. (No pun intended.)
England not only is a Christian nation, it is a Protestant nation. The Church of England has bequeathed a body of language that has influenced every aspect of British culture – literature, music, and art. The Established Church has guided Britain’s politics from human rights and equality to their constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy and helped to give Britain a set of values and morals which make Britain what it is today.
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