FAITHLESS NICK CLEGG A CHALLENGE TO THE FAITHFUL

I'm not a man of faith but my wife is Catholic and my children are being brought up as Catholic. I think a lot of people want the Catholic Church to come clean. "You can't keep a lid on sin.” NICK CLEGG

If it is alright for Nick Clegg to openly declare, “I’m not a man of faith" thereby allowing his 'faith' or non-faith status to influence his answers to questions and win public approval, why is it that those who profess to be faithful i.e., Gordon Brown and David Cameron do not allow their faith to dictate their thinking on pertinent issues?

The question is would they win public approval in the same way, and if not why not?

Last Thursday’s TV debate amongst candidates in the British election was insightful. What would have been political suicide in the United States and some other countries actually turned out to be the debate winner. Nick Clegg in answer to a question about the pope indicated he was no man of faith. Such a saying is adorable in Britain, as polls immediately after the debate and later weighed heavily in Clegg's favour.

So faith doesn't matter and why would it when the faithful hide their confession and pretend they're faithless?  If the faithful tell the public what they want to hear by saying that their faith is private, why would people think faith is essential in national politics? From Alistair Campbell’s "we don't do God", to Nck Clegg's "I’m not a man of faith", Britain is fast gaining grounds as a non-God State or Atheists haven.

From Darwin to Dawkins, Britain has produced some of the most ferocious atheists or simply God haters in modern times. The recent suggestion by Richard Dawkins to have the Pope arrested during his planned visit to the UK suggests the degree of rebellion and backslideness Britain is in. Not long ago Richard Dawkins raised funds to promote his deluded campaign that put posters on London buses saying "there's probably no God. . "

 

My concern is that whilst the faithless are getting vociferous by the day, the faithful are slowly sliding down along a dimishing curve and fading away in a dying microphone. But what do you expect when even the big wigs in the church are unclear as to what they believe in and consistently give out confusing messages?
 

That Britain is a godless society to some degree is evidenced by new laws on abortion, euthanasia, embryology and equality laws requiring churches to wed homosexuals if approached. By this article, I am not laying blame on a particular individual or party, but the faithful like myself who have shamefully held back when we should have been forthright and forceful with our message. I must acknowledge that some have been fighting in the cause and we pray that it continues and more would join in. We need to lift up a standard for the Church in Britain.


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