There has been a lot of discussion on Answers lately about Britain being a Christian country, and members of other religions failing to respect that.
But are we really a Christian country any more? Or is the phrase just used to demonstrrate how free we are compared to the more oppressive Islam countries?
How many people really care about Christianity or what it stands for today? Is it not the case that we really are a free multi-faith country with no real allegience to any one religion? It seems to me that most of those people claiming that we live in a Christian country have not the first idea about what Christianity stands for!
What do you think?
2006-10-17 05:07:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that those who call this country Christian are usually Christian, or racist if they do not know about Christianity. I personally think that our country can call itself what it likes, but it will never be truly Christian until it acts with passion, compassion, love and mercy. So much for America being a Christian country. At the moment we are closer to multi-cultural than multi-faith, as so many of us are agnostic.
2006-10-17 07:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by hopernium 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the UK is a nominally Christian country in that most people in the street would state that they were members of the Church of England or, more likely nowadays, the Roman Catholic Church on the strength of having been baptised into either of those churches as infants. Comparatively few people when taking the oath in a court of law, for instance, will opt to affirm rather than swear on the New Testament. However, there is alarming indifference towards and ignorance about the Christian faith and most children nowadays are not receiving any form of religious instruction in or out of school. People refer vaguely to Christian values without being able to discuss them in any depth.
This situation is not a new one. In the days when John Wesley started his ministry there was also a great degree of indifference both among the clergy and the laity and it took a revival for hearts and minds to change. All Christian believers in the UK should be praying earnestly for revival so that indeed their country may become a Christian country in every sense of the word.
2006-10-17 16:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no such thing as a "Christian country". Jesus came to proclaim the kingdom of heaven, not the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Christians are those from every language, nation and tribe that trust in Jesus to allow them entry into his kingdom.
2006-10-17 15:22:45 · answer #3 · answered by trebor88 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the christians might but thay are wrong not a lot of people go to church in the uk most of them are not brainwashed
2006-10-17 14:00:20 · answer #4 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋