For our incident today, we go to one of three constant sources of European ennui-induced stupidity: the United Kingdom. (The other two are France and Germany.)
A foster mother has her license revoked because, horror of horrors, a Muslim teenager under her care has decided to convert to Christianity.
One is stunned that, in a secular nation that has reduced religion to personal choice, a woman is punished for "allowing" a ward of hers (already at a reasonable age of 16) her personal choice of religion.
A foster mother has been struck off the register for allowing a Muslim girl in her care to convert to Christianity.
The woman, who has looked after more than 80 children in the past ten years, is considering suing the council over the decision.
Although she is a practising Anglican, she said she had put no pressure on the girl who was baptised last year at the age of 16.
She said social workers had also raised no objections to her own attendance at church.
But why should a freely chosen baptism be stopped? Why should the woman be obligated to physically stop this very free act of choosing which god to follow?
This is cultural cowardice reflective of a much larger malaise. If these British dolts cannot even be compelled to welcome someone into the faith that built their precious civilization, then what would compel them to defend it? If Muslims must be genuinely prevented from entering the faith, for the sake of their own good, of course, then why stay yourself?
What makes this situation even more pathetic is that its not just the myopic bureaucrats who embody this mindset. It stems from the ground up. Just check out the foster mom, Ms. "Practising Anglican", herself:
The carer is a single mother of two in her 50s who has worked with young children for much of her life. She has had an unblemished record since becoming a foster parent in the North of England in 1999.
Of the Christian convert, she said: 'I did initially try to discourage her. I offered her alternatives.
'I offered to find places for her to practise her own religion. I offered to take her to friends and family.
This woman, far from being the solution to the malaise, is actually one of the sources! If she held her faith, her culture, and her civilization dearly, why would she discourage an interested convert? It is not enough to not encourage, she simply HAD to discourage the young woman from even inquiring. One might wonder what "alternatives" she proposed. Kabbalah, maybe? Scientology? Wicca? "Jedi"?
If the problem of civilizational confidence seeps down this far, I do not see how the UK, or Europe for that matter will be able to get its act together in time to resist any form of Islamization. Shariah courts in Britain is just the first step.
In this entire mess of stupid, the person I pity most is the new convert, now barred for six months from church courtesy of the British government. Of all the branches of Christianity she could conceivably have entered, she seemed to have converted into Anglicanism. Instead of finding Christ in a steadfast stronghold, she will have to search for Him in a sinking ship. May God find her and speed her to better pastures.
As for Britain, well...good luck in the Eurabian crapper.
Re: 2nd sentence, penultimate paragraph
ReplyDeleteDo I understand that you are not enthusiastic about efforts to restore the Church of England to a state of communion with Rome?
Not much left to say about such efforts except that it's all dead in the water. Rome will only talk to breakaway groups like the TAC, who have committed to the doctrines that make Anglican Apostolic Succession possible. The Anglican Church as a whole threw any prospect of reuniting with Rome under the bus when they began ordaining women priests. The irony of it all is that it did nothing to increase their numbers of clergy, which are still anemic. So, in effect, the Anglican Church sold its soul to Satan (or "Progress", if you like) and got nothing in return.
ReplyDeleteThe Anglican Church used to boast of being the "via media" between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; a sort of middle ground between both worlds. In that form, Rome could talk unity with it.
But now, the Anglicans are considered as just another mainline Protestant group. The "via media" stuff is dead. So is any talk of formal unity. A joint declaration here and there, maybe (like with the Lutherans and ECT), but never formal unity.