Christianity is clear about distinctions, wisdom and truth, but not 12 woke bishops from the Church of England. They are advocating the breaking of UK laws:
Twelve bishops at the increasingly woke Church of England have penned an open letter to the government urging them not to turn back illegal migrant boats coming from safe, EU member-state France.
“Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by saying that it proved “Christian civilisation” must be defended at all times, and vowing to stop mass migration from facilitating further terror.”
Even the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, spoke out in a rare declaration:
About the case of Batley Grammar School and the protests after a teacher showed prophet Mohammad’s cartoons in his classroom…what do you think about the way things have been handled? Is there a conflict about freedom of speech?…..In this country, we have to hold on to freedom of speech.
Unvetted immigration has been a nightmare for Western countries, while woke useful idiots keep on aiding and abetting the practice, which serves to import Sharia and jihad. Donations are not being well spent in those Churches that mislead the faithful, aid in the subversion of Christianity, and display a reprehensible tendency to abandon the victims of jihad — including victims of Muslim rape gangs, which have been so pervasive in the UK.
“Church of England Bishops Urge Govt Not to Turn Back Migrant Boats”, Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, September 13, 2021:
Twelve bishops at the increasingly woke Church of England have penned an open letter to the government urging them not to turn back illegal migrant boats coming from safe, EU member-state France, published by the leftist Guardian.
The 12 senior clergymen, who described themselves as “bishops within the Church of England with a particular oversight of asylum and refugee issues” — a focus that comes amid the institution currently experiencing a collapse in church attendance and belief — said they were “deeply concerned about the government’s approach to migrant crossings of the Channel.”
The Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Chelmsford, Bishop of Croydon, Bishop of Bradwell, Bishop of Dover, Bishop of Durham, Bishop of Gloucester, Bishop of London, Bishop of Manchester, Bishop of Southwark, Bishop of Wakefield, and the Right Reverend David Hamid, Suffragan Bishop in Europe, claimed that the “new ‘turn back’ policy, which will see boats forcibly returned to France… raises significant moral concerns,” arguing it “starkly increases the risks at sea and endangers the lives of those attempting the crossing.”
The bishops were referring to a supposedly tough new policy of turning migrant boats trying to reach England around at sea in “very limited circumstances”, which border hawks have long argued would actually decrease risks at sea by discouraging people from attempting illegal sea crossings in the first place, as happened in Australia and, while it still had a strong policy against seaborne migrants, Italy.
The woke bishops also alleged in their letter that the Nationality and Borders Bill the government is putting before Parliament “would criminalise not only attempts to cross the border irregularly” — i.e. illegally — “nor even simply people-smuggling, but even those who take part in the rescue of boats in distress at sea.”
They claimed that “This would require those who see asylum seekers at risk to choose between ignoring a moral imperative (also established in maritime law) to assist them, or to risk prosecution and imprisonment,” arguing that this was the equivalent to “criminalisation of the Good Samaritan who did not pass by on the other side, and an affront to justice to put the saving of lives under any sort of legal penalty.”….
CogitoErgoSum says
If they were talking about taking in people who were leaving everything behind to flee persecution I might see their point. However, they are wanting to take in Muslims who are NOT fleeing religious persecution but who just want an easier life – AND whose religion encourages them to FIGHT all Christians. This is not a calling of people to take up their cross and to follow Jesus but rather a betrayal of Christ in the mold of Judas Iscariot.
mortimer says
Let the Muslims who are feeling persecution move to another Muslim country where their sect of Islam is defended.
Walter Sieruk says
Since some those unvetted illegal Muslim boat migrants might actually be murderous jihadists, as it only takes few to commit much murderous harm , those bishops aren’t really showing any “Christian concern” for the safety of the British people who are genuine citizens of the United kingdom.
Furthermore,it’s also very unlikely that any of those church bishops would keep on “feeling Christian love” towards illegal unvetted Muslim boat migrants of of them murdered in a jihad attack any of the family members of those bishops.
Wellington says
The Church of England has gone soft and stupid, even suicidal. This is a pattern with many Western organizations and ideologies, religious or secular. The Democratic Party of the USA comes foremost to mind as another example. The Liberal Party of Canada is yet one more collective village idiot in our era. Australia and New Zealand, not to mention many continental European polities, have also displayed a simply enormous capacity via certain organizations and ideologies for Stupidthink.
There are, of course, a plethora of other “worthy contenders,” among them the academic world as represented by Oxford and Cambridge, and here in America the (regularly pathetic) Ivy League of Penn, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale and Harvard. Then there is what has happened to the Western media, but enough already, no? Why belabor a point though so very often it is my wont to do exactly this because I never know when to quit (N.B., it’s part of my overall charm).
Oh wait, I won’t yet quit because I think it necessary to mention that Big Business (e.g., Coca-Cola) and Big Tech (e.g., Google) have also “contributed” most effectively to the quite possible eradiation of Western Civilization, the very civilization that pioneered more institutional developments, technological achievements and rights than any other civilization in history. And now the most powerful office in the Western world, in all the world, is the Presidency of the USA and which office is now in the possession of a most deficient human being in sundry ways. See, things just keep getting better and better.
The dumbing down of the West continues. Though the West from antiquity, as that great historian, Victor Davis Hanson, has noted many times, has had a built-in flaw, i.e., too much self-criticism, beginning exponentially in the 1960’s this flaw began to reach indefensible (and suicidal) levels and why I detest that particular decade so much. We are living with the results of the 1960’s to this day and one knows this or should know this. Just as I give no quarter to Islam, I give no quarter to the single most destructive decade in all of Western history—the 1960’s.
This is all. For now. Time for a beer.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
The Church of England is apparently quite as divided as the RCC about accepting Muslim migrants. Some of them see it as ‘Christian charity’, while wiser heads see it as the introduction of HEGIRA and JIHAD which will inevitably lead to the total annihilation of Christendom in Europe.
Unlike Pope Francis, Justin Welby (archbishop of Canterbury) is not woke and won’t go along with unrestricted Muslim immigration. He is a counterjihadist, but a silent one.
The message to the naïve, Pollyannish Church of England clerics is this: ‘KNOW YOUR ENEMY’.
They are desperately in need of KNOWLEDGE about Islam’s teachings of HEGIRA and JIHAD … they are actually two sides of a coin. There is a SWING in Islam between HEGIRA (migration or retreat) and JIHAD.
HEGIRA Is always the RESTING PERIOD or PREPARATORY PERIOD before JIHAD. And JIHAD Is the period of time before HEGIRA (a resting period before further jihads).
When there are over 10% Muslims in UK, there will be jihad every week in UK, and much of it will be against CHURCHES and the Christians in them.
tim gallagher says
These types of church leaders seem to believe that being a Christian means being a complete doormat, so Christians are meant to commit suicide by bringing in a clear enemy of Christianity, which most Muslims are. I prefer those church leaders from back in the Crusade days who recognised how evil islam is and called out islam and its followers as the malevolent force that it is and called on Christians to fight against islam and not cave in and surrender to it. The Christians from Hungary and those other Christian Visegrad bloc countries have the right approach by keeping Muslims out. Here at Jihad Watch there are reports about Muslims endlessly murdering Christians in African countries. These church leaders in the UK should take notice of that. When Muslims build up their numbers in the UK, or any other country, they’ll go after all non-Muslims, including Christians, just as they do in Africa right now, day after day.
gravenimage says
Good points, Tim.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, gravenimage. I cannot understand why these types of church leaders think that Muslims, who are murdering Christians constantly in African countries, are the type of people that the UK should accept into their society. As I said, I preferred those old style church leaders back in the times of the Crusades who weren’t afraid to call out Islam as the evil ideology that it so clearly is. Of course, there some modern clergymen who do call out islam for what it is, but too many are wishy washy, virtue signalling types who do behave like doormats.
mortimer says
A lot of Nigerian Anglicans are being murdered EVERY YEAR by Muslim terrorist groups such as the Boko Haram.
Nigeria has the largest Anglican national church in the world and it is the MOST PERSECUTED Anglican church in the world.
tim gallagher says
I certainly had no idea that Nigeria had the largest national Anglican church in the world, mortimer. Thanks for the information. These Anglican church leaders in the UK should know about the atrocities committed against Christians, including Anglicans, in Africa by Muslims and they should wake up and call out islam as the evil ideology it is and they should not support the idea of letting Muslims continue to invade the UK. These church leaders really do seem to have the doormat mentality, which is pretty common among many Christians, where they think that they have to have open door policies towards any people who want to come and stay in the country.
gravenimage says
UK: Church of England bishops urge government not to ‘turn back’ illegal Muslim boat migrants
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Suicidal insanity. As though Britain has not suffered enough Jihad terror yet.
mortimer says
UK now has an estimated 20,000 Islamic terrorists according to a retired MI5 chief.
How many terrorists do these confused clerics think is the ‘RIGHT NUMBER’ of terrorists for UK?
Raja says
That’s yummy… If I arrive by boat, I have a better chance of being accepted. The mafia I pay to get there would be happy. Some corrupt officials will be happy. When I return back to my country I can have thousands of Pounds on hand, girls swirling around me, villages heads organizing a big bash for my “achievements”.
These 12 idiots must leave the government alone and not poke their nose. They need the bible to read/ study that and obey that. Totally useless people for God and country! Rotten systems in Christianity and the nation once great !
Eleanor says
It is beyond belief that many in UK still believe these dinghy people are fleeing war-torn countries and persecution. This couldn’t be further from the truth. They are economic migrants, mainly young men, looking for a better life at the expense of, and to the detriment of, the poor old British taxpayer. This is not going to end well for the people of the UK, but hey, they’ve only themselves to blame.
gravenimage says
Yes–how many safe countries do Muslims pass through to reach Britain, no matter where they are coming from? It’s absurd.
jim says
The church wants to bring the Trojan horse into the country. They have compassion for potential terrorists and criminals, rape gangs and cultural enemies, but not with the citizens of the country. A distortion of the Christian message. Islam has no golden rule, but the West is supposed to throw caution to the wind to display moral virtue
John says
[Unvetted immigration has been a nightmare for Western countries, while woke useful idiots keep on aiding and abetting the practice, which serves to import Sharia and jihad. Donations are not being well spent in those Churches that mislead the faithful, aid in the subversion of Christianity, ]
– and which ? church would that be – I know.
OLD GUY says
The do gooders of the world always want you to take in these poor people, but not in their neighborhood. I wonder how many of these islamic migrants will be living in or on the grounds of the Church of England? These 12 bishops are just like all the other do gooders they live in their gated protected community and push the problems on the rest of us when it comes to the crime and cost of taking these refugees in. But they feel good about themselves and don’t even have to get dirty doing God work. Bless them.
R Russell says
As long as they keep them in England and don’t disseminate them throughout the UK I will be a bit happier about it.
gravenimage says
Your idea that Scotland, Ireland, and Wales would be safe with an Islamized England is mistaken.