David North a Churchwarden from Frisby-on-the-Wreake near Melton Mowbray, has been bullied into resigning after church leaders deemed that his membership of the Bristish National Party (BNP) was “incompatible” with Christianity
As I have recently been slated, as part of an un-Christian Zionist conspiracy, here is some balance for you.
I have been notified that an elderly churchwarden has been asked to resign his position, after it became apparent that he was a fully paid up member of the BNP.
I’m not going to get dragged in to the rights and wrongs of the BNP, but I will say this. What right have church leaders to dictate to members, which legal political party they may or may not belong to?
Frankly, when you scratch beneath the surface of any political party, it doesn’t look too pretty. Perhaps a more even handed approach would be to chastise anyone who belongs to any legal political party?
Don’t think that I am naive. I know what the BNP believe and what underlies their ideology, but that is not my point. They are currently a legal political entity (whether folks like it or not) who took just under a million votes fairly recently.
I wouldn’t mind so much, but it seems to me that the Church of England ‘elite’ is constantly engaged in grubby politics of one sort or the other.
Perhaps I believe that being associated with the Labour party is not compatible with a Christian faith.
This is the article from the BNP, make what you will of it.
If you have stumbled onto this blog and are not a Christian, get yourself a hot drink, pull up a comfy chair and then tuck into the following article written by one of the best in the business:- All Of Grace by Charles SpurgeonThe “Church of Political Correctness” Crucifies its First Martyr
The Church of England General Synod’s campaign against BNP members has claimed its first martyr in the form of an elderly churchwarden, who has been bullied into resigning after church leaders deemed that his membership of the BNP was “incompatible” with Christianity! David North from Frisby-on-the-Wreake near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire resigned three weeks ago.
Mr. North said, “For 60 years I have worked hard for Frisby Church. When I was 8 years old my job was to pump the organ in church services and help lay out the carpets before each service. Over the years I have helped raise thousands of pounds for the church in different projects. I have been the churchwarden for over 15 years in two stints and I find it deeply hurtful to be asked to resign having done nothing illegal – it hurts”.
Mr. North’s son James, a local councillor for the BNP said, “I feel very upset by this decision. The church was a big part of my father’s life and I feel let down by this decision, my family have always lived in Frisby and supported the church but sadly history always has a way of repeating itself. My grandmother when she was a child was not allowed to attend Sunday school and her parents were told they were not welcome in the village church due to the fact that they were not married at a time when this was deemed “incompatible” with Christianity. They were forced to become Methodists because of this but as attitudes changed they did finally return to the church. I believe we will see a similar story here.”
A spokeswoman for the Diocese of Leicester said, “It was pointed out to Mr. North that membership of the BNP is incompatible with being a practising Christian [sic]. This is the Bishop’s complete stance on it. The pastor is not able to kick out a churchwarden but it can be pointed out that he must make a choice between the BNP and the Church. Members of the congregation can be a member of the BNP but he held an office in the church and was representing us both legally and professionally.”
Now British Nationalists do not presume to claim that Jesus Christ would necessarily endorse their political cause, or indeed, that of any other modern political movement or party. But we do assert most vigorously that Jesus Christ would have set his face resolutely against the political hounding of individual BNP members, and firmly believe that He would have condemned the Church of England’s active participation in that persecution.
Not even the most bigoted and benighted bishop can surely delude himself that he does Christ’s work when he allows his church to bully and hound an elderly fellow Christian from his beloved occupation? Recent court judgements almost certainly mean that the Diocese of Leicester’s actions were unlawful; they were unquestionably reprehensible, immoral and un-Christian.
Few Church of England bishops retain any vestige of Christian faith these days, but most have now adopted instead an unshakeable belief in the new creed of political correctness. In all their self-righteous moral rectitude, in their lack of humble self-doubt, in their smug intolerance, these bishops are surely the Levites and Pharisees of our day, walking by with their noses in the air, while the battered British people lie in the gutter. In this apt parable, it is BNP activists who are the new Samaritans, reviled and persecuted outsiders who are prepared to roll their sleeves up and risk everything for a selfless good cause.
Irrepressibly vocal in eulogising the delights of Sharia, or fulminating against the BNP, the leaders of the Church of England maintain a strange trappist silence while Christian congregations are ethnically cleansed away and Christian graves are grubbed up in the grounds of churches converted to mosques.
It was no surprise then, that last month a group of clergy announced that they were contemplating a move to Rome on the grounds that, “The Church of England is, in the view of many of us, ceasing to be the church of Jesus Christ and becoming the church of political correctness.”
There are few situations which call for the language of harsh condemnation, but the persecution of Christian nationalists by supposedly Christian bishops is one such case. As a corporate body, the Church of England Bishops are a disgrace to their country, their faith and their pious flock. They have betrayed all the Christian values their predecessors held dear. They have carelessly resigned their privilege of moral leadership. And worst of all, by persecuting Christian nationalists in flagrant breach of Christian principles, the bishops have self-consciously reincarnated the evil spirit of the Inquisition.
Those bishops who still believe in the Christian God would do well to fear His judgement.
Tags: Christian Life, Politics