Our British Faith

There is a notable change to the thought direction of the people in West which began over 40 years ago. We have been in pursuit of a permissive society, there has been a steady erosion of authority and it is clear we have now taken on our own brand of morality.

We lock up and punish those who steal or murder and rightly so these people are considered criminals by our society.

You may recall from our country’s main religious book, the Bible “Thou shalt not commit adultery” was the law of our God handed down for all time? This now is missing from our social values.
Shameful is the fact that those who become heads of our state whilst carrying their religion on their sleeve and force feed us about their faith do not want to change the mind set of our people on this point.

It is very clear from those who run our affairs, they wish this commandment was missing and wish it gone from the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written.
It is Worthing noting that all three monotheistic religions have the Ten Commandments in their scriptures.

If people can not see the error of their error
and the blind continuously lead the blind,
When man can judge who enter heaven
and condemns his fellow man to hell,
When man take on divine power to punish
and power to forgive,
What need be for God when man becomes God.
But ask man not to breathe and to stop his heart beat
then soon his mortality soon comes back to him,
Ask him to keep his life when he is at his death
or to bring the dead back to life
Then for man is a need for God
for man can not do become God.

Ever generation goes through its own unique challenges and our fathers were no different although they and their fathers fought two world wars, yet both kept some perspective on right and wrong, including premarital sex which was regarded as adultery but now it is the norm. Today parents can not wait for their children to go out with the opposite sex but with a warning, “protect your self from disease” but not “make sure you do nothing to let us down”.

Not too long ago marriage, especially in a church was something we looked forward to for our children but today this is history, as married couples in our country are a dying breed.
We have left our biblical foundation of marriage and the acceptance of God’s law behind us and this has resulted in deep damage to our western society.

If you were to read any recent study on attitude to marriage, you will read the percentages of marriages are on the down because marriage as an institution is in terminal decline.

There can be no doubt; the breakdown of family life has had catastrophic results on society. Today, our politicians realise this and some have tried to address this subject.
We often hear them declares that we must respond to the challenge of social breakdown by actively supporting marriage through the tax and benefits system.

Awful doctrine and dreadful principles will result in appalling life. So much has changed since the West moved away from a Christian foundation which though nominal still served to give a sense of stability and direction.

For our father’s generation, the religious books and the Ten Commandments were the benchmark and a reference point. There was discipline in the home and in the classroom. The parent supported the teacher and our bobby on the beat was a valued and admired member of our community.
Common decency prevailed in the country and there was respect for authority in the home and in society.

The extended family was a protection against crime. Divorce was rare and having a child out of wedlock was unheard off. Homosexuality was not so much as named among us. The press and the broadcasting authorities conformed to standards of morality and decency. Amazingly this also included many of our politicians to some degree.

The warning sign of a broken society are clearly visible. Our youngsters leave school without the fundamentals of an elementary education. Gun and knife crime amongst our disenchanted and feral youth has increased alarmingly.
In recent years a new trends have come to the fore, amongst these is car theft amongst pre-puberty youngsters.
Various studies show several factors were associated with the early initiation of offending (before age twelve), including social withdrawal and depression, positive attitude to problem behaviour, association with deviant peers, and family problems. In contrast, the later onset of offending (between ages thirteen and fourteen), among other factors, was associated with low school motivation and low self esteem.