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I really enjoyed this post (as I always do) from Cranmer’s Curate Blog, so am cross-posting in its entirety for you:-

The politically-correct dictatorship engulfing Britain is being fuelled by fundamentally religious impulses.

Religious zeal is the only explanation for the police questioning of a 67-year-old grandmother after she wrote to her local council objecting to a homosexual parade in Norwich. Mrs Howe represents no threat to public order – her offence is against the dogma of the politically-correct inquisition now underway in Britain, instigated by a twittering high priestly caste of homosexual rights activists and diversity enforcers.

Like all spiritually-motivated, idolatrous inquisitions in human history from Nero’s to the Spanish to Stalin’s, the current PC one makes an irrational connection between the expression of an opinion against its religious dogma and acts of criminality, such as the appalling assault on a gay police cadet in Liverpool.

Christians need to be spiritually and mentally prepared for the following:

· Infiltration of our churches and charities by police informers. Some of us may even face denunciation by family members and close friends, as our Lord Jesus Christ warned his disciples in the gospels (cf Mark 13v12-13 and Luke 21v16: ‘You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you will be put to death’ – RSV).

· The temptation to be disrespectful towards the secular authorities and/or withdraw from civic life. The fact that in faithfulness to the Bible’s teaching we will have to risk prosecution under their ‘hate speech’ laws in our churches and in the marketplace of ideas does not mean that we should dismiss the political authorities as totally godless or disengage from society. Intense religious persecution of Christians was the background for the apostolic exhortations to honour political leaders and participate rightly in civic society for the sake of Christian witness (cf Romans 13v1-7; 1 Peter 2v13-17).

· The emergence of a State-approved Church, with a Stonewall-nominated Archbishop, which will promote political correctness amongst the Christian community in exchange for privileges. There could well be financial and employment incentives for Christians to register with the State Church. Under such circumstances, the example of Moses who chose to suffer ill-treatment with the people of God needs to guide us: ‘He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward’ (Hebrews 11v26).

· The pressure to form ill-judged and damaging alliances with right-wing or otherwise counter-cultural groups such as the BNP who purport to support Christianity and who are prepared to voice unpolitically-correct views on subjects such as Islam and homosexuality. It is vital that Christians firmly distance themselves from the BNP in particular both because its views on race are anti-Christian and also because it is evangelistically deleterious to be associated with such a nasty party. The Apostle Paul’s words need to be at the front of our minds: ‘Conduct yourselves wisely towards outsiders, making the most of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone’ (Colossians 4v5-6 – RSV).

By God’s grace, we can comfort ourselves with the thought that unlike biblical Christianity the new PC religion is irrational and incoherent. Like the darkly superstitious and credulous pagan cults that dominated the British Isles prior to their Christian evangelisation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries AD, it is a twittering religion in more senses than one.

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