Important Takeaways:
- Atheists Cheer as Upcoming UK Bill Could Upend History, Disestablish Church of England
- The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist group, called the move “brilliant” and Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor said she and her group are “cheered” to see the potential break.
- “At a moment when the United States is struggling to retain our secular democracy, we’re cheered by the news that disestablishment is being debated and contemplated in Britain,” Gaylor said in a statement. “The privileging of the Church of England is holding back progress and allows it to force its doctrines on the majority of non-Christians. It’s time the British tell the Church of England to ‘sod off.’”
- The relationship between the U.K. government and the Church of England is one that gives 26 bishops seats in the House of Lords, with the monarch — King Charles III — officially considered “Defender of the Faith,” according to Christian Today.
- Plus, there are state-funded Church of England schools.
- As CBN News previously reported, this issue has been heating up in recent years, with calls for separation intensifying, especially after a 2021 census showed less than half — 46.2% — of Britons identified as Christians.
- It was the first time in history a majority of the country no longer identified as Christian.
- “The fact that Christianity is no longer the majority religion means policy is out of step with society,” Professor Linda Woodhead, head of the department of theology and religious studies at King’s College London, told The Guardian at the time.
- We’ll have to see next month what happens once Scriven’s bill comes up for debate.
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Romans 1:28 “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears
Important Takeaways:
- Gender-neutral God to be considered by Church of England
- [Calling for] reference to Our Father, to be scrapped in favor of either gender neutral or female alternatives.
- Claiming that “a theological misreading of God as exclusively male is a driver of much continuing discrimination and sexism against women”.
- The news comes amid tensions within the Church of England as the Synod prepares for a historic vote on blessings for same-sex couples later this week.
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In a first of its kind collaboration, leaders of the Christian and Muslim faiths are banding together to take a stand against slavery.
The new Global Freedom Network has the support of Pope Francis & the Vatican, the Church of England and al-Azhar, the Cairo based center of Sunni Muslim learning. It’s the first time the leaders of all three major religious groups have worked together with a single goal.
The GFN says that over 30 million people around the world are trapped in slavery and Pope Francis said it was a “crime against humanity.”
The group has vowed to make sure no organization under its control has tied to slavery-related business or groups and they will press governments to work to eradicate slavery within their borders.
“We are struggling against evil in secret places and in deeply entrenched networks of malice and cruelty,” said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
The Global Freedom Network will be coordinated by Australian based anti-trafficking charity Walk Free Foundation.
