Bishop Nazir-Ali: "We Must Recover our Christian Nerve Before our Judeo-Christian Heritage is Lost"....
True Christian warrior.....
The west is losing Christian discourse at a time when it needs it most, the bishop of Rochester told a gathering of conservative church leaders in Jerusalem yesterday.
Addressing the 1,200 delegates of the Global Anglican Future Conference, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali said militant secularism was creating a double jeopardy for western culture. "Western culture depends on Judeo-Christian heritage. Let us pray we are able to recover our Christian nerve in the west and to make sure the gospel is not lost," he said.
Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda, introduced him as the "one and only bishop of Rochester", and he received an ovation before uttering a word.
He spoke for 45 minutes without a script, mirroring the style of the Archbishop of Canterbury who often relies on a lone Post-It when delivering lengthy speeches, and touched on a number of issues, such as converting Muslims, which pleased the Anglicans from Nigeria, a country that has experienced violent conflicts between the two religions.
Nazir-Ali provoked an outcry last month when he said the Church of England should be more robust in standing up for its core beliefs, and was one of the three bishops to back an initiative to commit the church to work explicitly for the conversion of Muslims. The ensuing uproar led to the initiative being withdrawn.
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It's a pity this man is not placed higher in the hierarchy of the Anglican Church...
Posted by: Nora | June 26, 2008 at 03:34 AM
Hopefully he will be soon Nora
Posted by: Elric66 | June 26, 2008 at 05:35 AM
Dr, Michael Nazir-Ali was born and raised in Pakistan and has firsthand knowledge of the impossibility of a fulfilling life for non-Muslims (or Muslims, for that matter) under Islamic rule and law.
And no one can hurl the illogical "racist" epithet at Dr. Nazir-Ali for pronouncing himself as he has, either. This is so sweet, as they say.
PLUS the good Dr. Nazir-Ali is quite the accomplished Christian theologian! So the likelihood of a "debate" with any spokespersons from opposing camps is "zilch". Propagandists don't do too well in actual debates where knowledge and reason and facts prevail over feelings and personal perspectives and politically correct vagaries-of-the-month.
The world is - very simply - at war, and the sides are not geographically isolated from one another anymore. In Canada, many "Canadians" actually fight to defeat and destroy everything their ancestors have accomplished here. I see them every day; I work beside them; I listen to their senseless chattering self-hatreds spew out of their pieholes. Sometimes I wonder whether or not saving them is even worth it. They don't even make for "good TV". "Canadian diversity" looks more and more like a "monolithic miasma of mush", doesn't it?
Posted by: Simon Fleischmann | June 26, 2008 at 06:23 AM