Nimrod103 wrote:Surely the foundation of any church or mosque has to be a belief in the supernatural, and as a result compelled to follow a set of rules laid down thousands of years ago. Don’t you find it very worrying that adherents of Catholicism and Islam have a far greater belief in something which is unproven by science [Deletion] than “adherents “ of the Church of England? The latter would seem to be taking a rational view of life, death and the real World. [Deletion]
I'm Catholic, attend church, but have little regard for the doctrine, I partake for the community spirit. Helps others, but periodically that turns around and supports you in times of stress/difficulties in ways that acquaintances down the pub or friends/family cannot. White males such as myself have been social engineered to be outcasts, seen policies that have driven declines in family values and community spirit (isolation), whereas other communities are generally more communal. The community decline is even more pronounced for CofE, I imagine that some elderly CofE widows who have rarely attended church can be very isolated/lonely both physically and spiritually. In every case across time/history the indigenous are made outcasts and their population reduced to minorities. The engineering to dissuade families (high divorce rates, reduced birth rates, not attending community gatherings etc.) are just directed in order for others to ultimately prevail. Another couple of decades and Britain will more likely be predominately non-white, with a Islamic majority as that has the most aggressive expansion/dominance policies (out breed/migrate, consider all others as evil). There are already signs that that doctrine has permeated right through both Local Authorities and State as discriminatory evidence is indicating (return of defaced Passports/Birth Certificates etc. for having the 'wrong' religion declared on the forms).
Spiritually, I opine it to be less rational to believe that scientifically the universe ('god') doesn't exist. When children are raised in the absence of anything other than they're just a insignificant single ant of billions then that's inclined to induce selfish behaviour and isolation. The CofE is reaping what it has sowed - forget family values, marry for the party and divorce/separate some time later, doesn't matter if you marry into the same sex, disregard everyone else - just think of yourself etc. The CofE is founded on a pure selfish foundation - the desire of a King to divorce his wife, not honour his for-better-or-worse promise. But so also do most if not all other religions have their negative side histories. You have the option to detach from each/all ... isolate, or affiliate to the one you opine to be the least worst and at least have some additional element of community. Each to their own.
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