Richard Dawkins calls himself a cultural Christian – the culture without the essence of Christianity.  He is afraid of islam taking over Britain.

Rupert Lowe is a political Christian and possibly Nigel Farage is also. Ben Habib might be the same.  They are also afraid of islam taking over Britain.  Their promotion of Christianity is political expediency.  Without islam on the scene, Christianity would not be mentioned in their politics.  Indeed, over the past decades, the mention of Christianity was met with the charge that one is introducing sectarianism into politics.  Now it is convenient to support Christianity.  You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry, and the well is now quite dry.

Such politicians want to support and promote institutional Christianity.  What form this will take is open to question, but the main thing in their eyes is to roll back islam in Britain.

Political Christianity

How they expect to do this with politics is a mystery. Politics has its place but it needs to know its place. Puerile politicians with little experience in life will not do it. This is why people are turning to Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib, who are in turn abandoning career politicians (a.k.a. “no real-world-experience” politicians) for businessmen and women who know about life. However, do these real-world substitutes know how to convert radical, aggressive, violent muslims into peace-loving equivalents?

Even the much more popular peace-movement musicians of the 1960s have not changed the world. They sang about peace and stopped the Vietnam War eventually, by creating a mass-movement whose numbers influenced politicians to act. What doctrine did they preach in their songs? Bob Dylan told those who listened – “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” It had a catchy tune, appealed to multitudes, but what is the answer? Will musicians convert radical, aggressive, violent muslims into peace-loving equivalents?

Will politicians do it? Will musicians do it? Which “influencers” know enough Christianity to attempt it?

For half a century activists wanted to disestablish the Church of England and now the folly of such ideas is becoming apparent. Which form of Christianity will our political Christians adopt?

Religion or politics?

Is islam a religion or a political movement?  It is both, like the pope in Rome who is both the spiritual leader of billions of Roman catholics and the king and ruler of Vatican City.

Who said religion and politics don’t mix?  Islam and the Roman papacy have been at it for over a millennium.

If islam was to go away, so would this adoption of political Christianity.  Political Christianity is just a convenience.  It does not adopt Jesus Christ as Lord.

Political Christianity will be accused of stoking up religious tensions.  False religion has always given true religion a bad name.

In former days, Britain evangelized the world.  Now it has forgotten how to do so.

Psalm 2 reminds us of the religious warfare that has continued for several millennia. Its advice is to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord.

This is the solution to the world’s ills and it has the answer for Britain, blowing in the Wind of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ changing the hearts of aggressive muslims, and others also for that matter.