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by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:
As we face another year, it is a good time to ask ourselves what our priorities should be.
A Sinking Society We cannot escape the fact that the United Kingdom really is post-Christian, and not only post-Christian, but post-liberal. Like the rest of the West, the UK has undergone a vicious assault on reason and tradition. What was once a liberal, tolerant society which sought to build communities has become censorious and intolerant with self-interest reigning supreme, resulting in a society where anything goes and nothing works.
It is possible to argume that the UK is post-liberal precisely because it is post-Christian. Lacking the guidance and restraint of Christianity, liberalism has degenerated into progressivism, an ideological derangement motivated by contempt for the past whilst lacking a rational direction for the future. A coherent moral consensus within a well-grounded community is totally absent and as a result we witness moral chaos, a lack of creative thought and an increasingly narrow-minded society. In the space of a single generation, Western liberalism has degenerated into a cultural suicide cult.
Who Is To Blame? As we look at the decline around us – institutional, economic and above all moral – we are forced to acknowledge that the responsibility lies with those who have a duty to uphold those principles for life which lead to happiness and fulfilment: the church. The leadership of the legacy denominations, having tired of trying to convert the world to Christ, have settled for trying to convert the church to the world. As a result Christian distinctiveness has been submerged in a quagmire of niceness and weak-kneed eagerness not to offend.
The faithful Christian believer, from whatever tradition, is trapped between a rock and a hard place: either a blatant unbelief or a feeble, homoeopathic form of Christianity that serves as an enabler for what people want to do anyway.
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