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My Christian faith is so strong that I’ll never waiver from it. But since my commitment to God in May 1993, I’ve never been a pushover. I can’t count the times I’ve been ridiculed, criticised and had the phrase “call yourself a Christian” thrown at me. The ridicule I can easily cope with, but the “call yourself a Christian” which is usually from a woke Christian is the one that gripes me the most. So a Christian is supposed to be a weak little person who sees what’s going off in the cathedrals and high churches now as being ok because we are meant to be meek and mild. That’s not what God wants. He wants us to speak out about the pathetic archbishop’s and their wishy washy views that keep them popular with the wishy washy Christian’s that we aren’t called to be. That’s easy. True Christianity isn’t easy. It’s being in a C of E church and listening to a vicar who you really liked talking about how evil the “racist EDL” are, at a time when I knew very little about the EDL but gathered from his comments that we aren’t supposed to defend our country. Its listening to the nice little elderly ladies after the sermon saying how awful those Jews are for how they behave towards Palestinians, knowing that they like to come to church every Sunday to have their ears tickled but receive no teaching on main world events that God needs us to hear. It’s hard putting “nice” vicars who you really like and who like you, and sweet little old ladies who you have respect for and have respect for you on what you know to be the right path when you haven’t been to Bible college yourself! It’s hard having people think differently of you and starting to be standoffish because of your views but refusing to budge from what you know is right. I had to many a time speak the truth though my voice was trembling and my knees shaking, and knowing they weren’t going to like me as much anymore.

Jesus wasn’t a walkover. The meek and mild Jesus stormed into the temple overturning tables and calling it a den of vipers for less than what’s happening in His churches now.

I reckon I should sign up at the local gym and get some muscle power to overturn a few tables myself. I may start at York Minster!

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Muscular Christianity. What would we give for dollops of that right now? As a Christian without a church, of an Anglican bent and deeply in love with the KJ Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, I'd probably be a member of the C of E. Were it not for the C of E... Welby the final straw, when during Covid, he publicly stigmatized those of us smart enough to say no to the jab.

Daniel - signed up to your Substack as a result of your book on evil incarnate, Billy Boy Gates. Thoroughly enjoy your pieces, AND the unalloyed anger that pours of the page. Knocking on 73, I'm as angry as ever I have been about what has been done to us, and is coming down the pipeline. 73 is no age for the barricades, but when there is no other choice...

Keep up the good work!

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