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**DF9sLGSU** · 09-23-2006, 12:43 AM

I have been really suprised while listening to ABC radio (like the BBC UK I think) where they have daily quizes for the listeners to find caller after caller can't answer the simplest questions about the Bible. Being the ABC, I think that most listeners would be over 40 or at least over 30 yrs.

I also was very surprised a while back when a famous Australian (Marcia Hines) called (St) Mary Magdelene the Mother of God.

Dear Irene,

The situation here is just the same. What is worrying is that this leaves teenagers wide open to so-called 'new age' practices and cults, some of which are relatively harmless, but some of which are not. Young people do not lack the need to believe in something beyond this material world. Like most of us they have an innate knowledge that this is not enough. But as Christians we have failed to let them know that they do not need to go to esoteric cults for insight and faith.

The fact that UK government ministers have criticised Pope Benedict for his comments on Islam whilst tolerating extremist Islamic preachers here for years, tells its own story.

It seems to be that the mass media are quite happy to undermine Christianity and to mock it in a way they would not dare to with Islam; in that sense the Muslims are doing a better job of defending their faith than we are.

I am not, of course, saying that we should take to streets and burn effigies, but I do wonder how we have reached this stage when, only a couple of generations ago, one could have said that Britain was a Christian country?

I have a sense, from living in the mid-West of the USA for a year, that the Americans are a little better than the British at defending Christianity; how does that seem to our American posters?

In Christ,

John

09-23-2006, 12:43 AM	#32
DF9sLGSU Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	I have been really suprised while listening to ABC radio (like the BBC UK I think) where they have daily quizes for the listeners to find caller after caller can't answer the simplest questions about the Bible. Being the ABC, I think that most listeners would be over 40 or at least over 30 yrs. I also was very surprised a while back when a famous Australian (Marcia Hines) called (St) Mary Magdelene the Mother of God. Dear Irene, The situation here is just the same. What is worrying is that this leaves teenagers wide open to so-called 'new age' practices and cults, some of which are relatively harmless, but some of which are not. Young people do not lack the need to believe in something beyond this material world. Like most of us they have an innate knowledge that this is not enough. But as Christians we have failed to let them know that they do not need to go to esoteric cults for insight and faith. The fact that UK government ministers have criticised Pope Benedict for his comments on Islam whilst tolerating extremist Islamic preachers here for years, tells its own story. It seems to be that the mass media are quite happy to undermine Christianity and to mock it in a way they would not dare to with Islam; in that sense the Muslims are doing a better job of defending their faith than we are. I am not, of course, saying that we should take to streets and burn effigies, but I do wonder how we have reached this stage when, only a couple of generations ago, one could have said that Britain was a Christian country? I have a sense, from living in the mid-West of the USA for a year, that the Americans are a little better than the British at defending Christianity; how does that seem to our American posters? In Christ, John
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