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Originally Posted by kernow
Although I no-longer look upon myself as a Christian, e.g believing in a loving God who takes care of us. I do believe in the human spirit being an eternal thing. I love old Churches, when I sit in one (usually before a wedding or a funeral) I think of the thousands who have prayed there over the centuries, some just going through the motions others from the bottoms of their hearts! I Still get moved to tears at funerals when singing 'Abide With Me' or 'The Old Rugged Cross'! Then I see 'Jerry Springer' on TV searching his past when he finds out his Grandmother died in a German concentration camp camp. )Today it is PC to say Nazi concentration camp, trying to paint over the fact Nazi were Germans not some strange extinct race of people who had died out! ) I only have to see films of the Holocaust to know there is no God!
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Kernow, I am pretty much the same as you although the nail in the coffin for religion was when I had a severely disabled child born. It is strange the way different religions look at this. christians' view that god did it for a purpose is something that i cannot understand, nor is the muslim view that you choose the body you live in so when you die you can have 13 virgins etc etc i.
anyway, i digress. i do think that it is vital that the CofE stays strong. whether church attendaces dwindle to nothing or not, i still feel the church has a vital role to play in our lives whether we believe or not in the loving god. without it we have no basis for morals and our laws and way we live would change for the worse. although the moral fibre of the country seems to be melting away, or perhaps that should be "has melted away", i still think that there is a basic decency amongst most people, although it does seem to be buried deep underground. there are still some taboos that most all find reprehensible - things such as child abuse. i am not sure if this is specifically mentioned in the Bible or not, but things such as murder (which again most/all know is wrong) is mentioned.
i am sorry but i really do not want to live in a country with islamic law, where in some places it is deemed acceptable to castrate their women, stone them if they are accused by four men of adultery (although 4 is often overlooked due to not having enough eyewitnesses). If I did then I would most likely be living in Pakistan or Afghanistan. unless the church can stay strong, it will fall - another bastion crumbling away so the desire for world conversion to islam can march onwards