The Church of England has “surrendered” without so much as “firing” a shot. Vanquished.
A senior Church of England “bishop” said that Prince Charles’s “coronation” service should be opened with a reading from the Koran.
Why? Why not a “Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Sikh” prayer?
Why “Islamic,” especially since so many “bloody wars” are being waged in the cause of “Islamic” imperialism?
Another “nail” in the coffin, another “stake” in heart of the “once” great Britain, now the “Islamic State of England.”
People are just so “disappointed” when senior Church of England figures lose “confidence” in the claims of the Christian faith.
Disappointed? They are “crushed.” I am sure that Prince Charles “sanctioned” this craven “act of submission.”
Oriana Fallaci, the Italian best-selling journalist who, with her book “The Rage and the Pride” was post-9/11 among the first to “alert” the West to the “dangers” of Islam, called him “babbeo,” a Tuscan term which could be “reserved” for the village idiot.
The gesture would be a “creative act of accommodation” to make Muslims feel “embraced” by the nation, Lord Harries of Pentregarth said.
But critics “attacked” the idea, accusing the Church of “losing confidence” in its own institutions and traditions.
Lord Harries of Pentregarth.
Lord Harries, a former Bishop of Oxford and a leading CofE “liberal thinker”, said he was sure Charles’s coronation would give “scope” to leaders of non-Christian “religions” to give their “blessing” to the new King.
Harris, who continues to “serve” as an assistant bishop in the “diocese” of Southwark, made the suggestion about the “Koran” during a House of Lords debate.
He told “peers” the Church of England should take the lead in “exercising its historic position in a hospitable way.”
He said that at a “civic” service in Bristol Cathedral last year authorities had “agreed” to a reading of the “opening passage” of the Koran before the “beginning” of the Christian ritual.
He said: “It was a brilliant creative act of accommodation that made the Muslim high sheriff feel, as she said, warmly embraced but did not alienate the core congregation.”
“That principle of hospitality can and should be reflected in many public ceremonies, including the next coronation service.”
Lord Harries’ suggestion comes more than 20 years after the Prince first said he would prefer to be seen as “Defender of Faith” rather than be known by the monarch’s title of “Defender of the Faith.”
Charles said in 1994 he “always felt the Catholic subjects of the sovereign are equally as important as the Anglican ones, as the Protestant ones.”
“Likewise, I think that Islamic subjects, or the Hindu subjects, or the Zoroastrian subjects of the sovereign, are of equal and vital importance.”
In 2006 the Prince made known that he wanted a “multi-faith” coronation that would be more “focused and telecentric” than his mother’s in 1953.
However traditionalist Christians “condemned” Lord Harries’s idea.
Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute think-tank said: “Most people will be amazed at the idea that a Christian leader would consider the use of the Koran at a Christian service in a Christian abbey. People are just so disappointed when senior Church of England figures lose confidence in the claims of the Christian faith.”
R.I.P. David Haines (UK). Let’s pray your death was not in vain.
Andrea Minichiello Williams, a member of the CofE’s parliament, the General Synod, and head of the Christian Concern pressure group, said: “At a time when we are looking at what British values mean, we cannot have values in a vacuum. British values stem from our Christian heritage. We cannot pretend all religions are the same, or have the same benefits and outcomes for the nation.”
Douglas Murray, associate editor of the Spectator, said if Muslims were included in the coronation service, there must be room to for “Hindus, Sikhs, and Atheists.”
R.I.P. Alan Henning (UK). Let’s pray your death was not in vain.
He added: “If there were to be a reading from the Koran at the coronation, surely as a matter of reciprocity, all mosques in the UK should have prayers for the King and the Armed Forces every week at Friday prayers.”
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