UK bishops should shut the hell up about Tommy Robinson’s rally
A cross section of Bishops from all theological persuasions in the UK put out a letter condemning — among other things — the “co-opting of Christian symbols” during the Tommy Robinson- organised “Unite the Kingdom Rally”. We will go through and address the relevant portions of the letter first, then proceed to why I honestly could not give less of a crap what they have to say on the matter…and neither should you.
The letter begins,
We are deeply concerned about the co-opting of Christian symbols, particularly the cross, during Saturday’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally. Many individuals and communities felt anxious, unsettled and even threatened by aspects of the march.
Very interesting they acknowledge how “many individuals” felt anxious, unsettled and threatened. The question is where exactly are these people who felt this way? Who are the people who felt this way? People at the rally were in a celebratory mood and the number of arrests (25, assuming ALL of them were from the rally and absolutely none from the Stand up to Racism counter-protesters, compared to the at least a million people who showed up on the march) corroborate the fact this rally was anything but scary and violent.
The funny thing is that the only anxiety about this rally has been stoked by two sets of people, the media — who were putting out very fear mongering head lines like “Londoners brace for violence as far right rally takes place” on the morning of the event and politicians who kept saying nobody should be discriminated against because of their skin colour, something that never happened at the rally.
We had social media influencers of all races including even Arab and Asian Muslims saying they were at the rally and expected the worst but found it to be very warm and embracing. So ironically, the church by buying the media narrative is contributing to the anxiety it thinks it is standing up against. But there’s more.
The penultimate paragraph reads,
However, this rally included racist, anti-Muslim and far-right elements. As Christians from different theological and political backgrounds we stand together against the misuse of Christianity. The cross is the ultimate sign of sacrifice for the other. Jesus calls us to love both our neighbours and our enemies and to welcome the stranger. Any co-opting or corrupting of the Christian faith to exclude others is unacceptable.
Interesting! The rally included anti-Muslim elements? Can these bishops tell me what it is in the Christian faith and the gospel that is not an anti-Muslim element? Is Jesus being the divine Son of God a pro or anti-Muslim element? Is God being a Father and we as Christians being His children a pro or anti-Muslim element? Is Jesus dying on the cross a pro or anti-Muslim element? Is the redemption from sin by His death and resurrection a pro or anti-Muslim element?
You idiots! Your entire religion is anti-Islam and by definition incongruent with what Muslims believe. Is your job as a church not to preach the gospel to as many as do not believe in it, including Muslims? How is raising awareness of the cross, however clumsily, even to Muslims anti-Muslim?
The fools continue, “the cross is the ultimate sign of sacrifice for the other”. The first question is this, “What has the church of England or any of those bishops sacrificed for the UK in the decades within recent memory?”. The same churches who will not take a clear position on sexuality, they will not utter one word about the very deleterious effects of Islam in the UK, I have not seen such a passionate letter regarding the predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs in the UK or even their fellow Christians being slaughtered by the hour in Northern Nigeria or Congo. Do they really care about the other? What exactly are they sacrificing?
Tommy Robinson, the organiser of the rally sacrificed his marriage, his body (he had his teeth knocked out in prison and has been beaten and assaulted several times), his personal safety, spent years in prison, a good chunk of months in solitary confinement, all for the unforgivable crime of raising awareness about the horrors of Islam in the UK (Radicalisation of youth in Luton, grooming gangs and orchestrated cover ups, two-tier policing). The speakers at the conference (a lot of whom I did not agree with by the way) have a record of, at the risk of career suicide, going against the cultural grain (of endless migration, political correctness and the multi-cultural experiment) which has led to catastrophe and chaos in Europe, what exactly have the bishops sitting on their lazy backsides and writing this letter sacrificed? A good number of the people at the rally came out because they are worried about the future of the country and what might become of their children if things continue the way they are, they deemed this rally and the expense of coming to it, a sacrifice for future generations, what exactly have the churches of these bishops sacrificed? How dare they gaslight the British public and Tommy Robinson with the cross? How dare they speak about it as a symbol of sacrifice to those who have sacrificed much more than they ever will for the sake of others?
They go on to say “Jesus calls us to love both our neighbours and our enemies and to welcome the stranger.”
Jesus never taught us to welcome the stranger and I challenge all the bishops writing the letters and their mentors to show me where Jesus said that. It is the Torah that says we should welcome the stranger. You know what else the Torah says though? That the stranger should keep the law of the land, there should be one law for both the stranger and the native (Leviticus 18:26). You know what else the Torah says though? That the rights of the natives of the land should be greater than the rights of the stranger. You know what else the Torah says though? That Israel must not lose its national identity, not even at the altar of “welcoming the stranger”. I have written an extensive article (linked below) called “What the Torah says about illegal immigration” where I provide the references for what I have alluded to in this paragraph. So it is idiotic for the bishops to falsely misattribute a statement to Jesus and then emphasize “welcome the stranger” to the detriment of other things the Torah says.
The British people have welcomed strangers and now the strangers have not only raped their daughters but trampled on their rights, put pressure on their limited resources and drained their collective taxes, yet when they rally against this, the idiot bishops from behind their thick spectacles and dog collars want to school them on welcoming the stranger.
They proceed, “Any co-opting or corrupting of the Christian faith to exclude others is unacceptable.”. This again shows us that these guys do not understand the gospel at all. Christianity by definition excludes people. By definition! Jesus said NOBODY COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT BY HIM, HE IS THE WAY (Not one of many)- John 14:6. Peter and John said THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN BY WHICH MEN MAY BE SAVED- Acts 4:12. Any one who does not accept the person of Christ will be damned, it literally is THAT exclusive. So these virtue-signalling bishops worship inclusivity, not Christ, hear what they say,
“We know that we cannot heal this wound unless the Church, and society as a whole rises to do more to address the issues of poverty, inequality and exclusion.”
You see, the real problem is not sin, the real issue is not that the UK has become very decadent, sexually depraved and out of touch with morality and the gospel, the real problem is poverty and exclusion! How did Jesus address poverty? Let me give you a hint,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.”
(Luke 4:18)
And again,
“Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them”
(Matthew 11:4–5)
How did Paul address inequality?
“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”
(Galatians 3:27–28)
By getting people into the family of Christ!
How did Jesus and Paul address exclusion? By bringing the Gentiles into the covenant between God and Israel through the person of Jesus Christ. Is that what these bishops mean by addressing poverty, exclusion and inequality though? Of course not, they mean incorporating woke ideologies into scripture and making the gospel take yoga classes in other to be flexible enough to bend around their 21st century western idiosyncrasies.
I have bad news for the church, poverty will always exist on this side of eternity, even Jesus said,
“For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them…”
(Mark 14:7)
Inequality will exist even in a perfect heaven because Jesus constantly talks about the greatest and the least in the kingdom of heaven. Do you really think Christians standing firm for Christ despite their being beheaded in Islamic nations across the world and these virtue signalling, woke ideology embracing, 21st century oriented, tea drinking British bishops writing these letters would be equal in heaven (if they even get in)?
Forasmuch as people continue to willingly reject and rebel against the gospel, there will be exclusion, so congratulations bishops, you just picked three issues that will never be solved. The one thing you are supposed to do, i.e. preach the gospel and teach the nations ALL things Christ commanded you to observe, you neglect!
So when they say “we stand together against the misuse of Christianity” . I and the common sense Christians of the world stand against their misuse of Christianity!
Now why don’t I give a crap about what these bishops or what the UK church generally has to say about Tommy Robinson and the Unite the Kingdom Rally?
First, let me say categorically that I did not agree with most of the Christian messaging by the speakers at Tommy Robinson’s rally. I felt it was hollow, awkward and as the kids today say “cringe”. But the more I thought about it, the angrier I grew became for one reason,
“Is it not a shame and a slap on the church’s face that it has so failed, so abdicated its responsibility as the moral light of the UK and the light house to Christ and the gospel, that it takes a “far-right thug and football hooligan” like Tommy Robinson to rally the country together at a time like this? Is it not a shame that not a single church can pull a crowd of even the pastor’s wife and kids to make its voice heard on national issues that are relevant to the British public?”
Let us be clear, if the government, politicians, journalists, law enforcement, police, the media and the judiciary had done its job and punished grooming gangs as appropriate, dealt with Islamic terrorism with the strictness it deserved, there would be no bloody need for Tommy Robinson! In the same way, if the church had lifted its voice in righteousness for the victims of the grooming gangs, for the victims of Islamic terrorism, for the victims of sexual assaults committed by illegal immigrants in hotels across the UK, there would be no need for Tommy Robinson to be in charge of who speaks to over a million British citizens about Christianity!
As I watched the rally, I could not help but fume, “Where are the experts of theology?!”, “Where are the doctors of the Christian religion?”, “Where are the scribes?”, “Where are the scholars??!”. Nowhere to be found! Would it have been too much for the church to work with Tommy Robinson to oversee the Christian messaging during the rally? If for nothing, there would have been a literally captive audience of at least a million people on ground and tens of millions worldwide, people desperate for change and seeking meaning in their lives, what a bloody open goal to preach the true gospel they have in mind…missed by the bishops because of course, it is more Christ like to virtue signal than to take a stand on something controversial and risk being unpopular in the 21st century. Did Jesus not say “Blessed are the nice and polite, for theirs is a cup of tea? or something along those lines?”
A flipping disgrace!
In summary, there are real issues out there. Issues that started out really small. Culture redefined marriage, and sexuality, and gender…and the church bowed to it, it took the knee and kissed the ring of its woke overlords. Then wokeness came in full fledged, open the floodgates of the UK to anybody on the planet to come in because that is the kind thing to do, then Islam comes into the picture, then grooming gangs, then the King says he is now the defender of the faiths and references Islam and Judaism during an Easter message, and the church remains blind and mute on all these tensions. But when somebody else, like a Tommy Robinson or a Charlie Kirk engages with that tension in society and culture, the same church is quick to point out how “un-Christ-like” they are being and how this does not represent the true Christianity…because true Christianity to these clowns is never being controversial about anything in the 21st century, it is about virtue signalling and showing how much of a lovely and tolerant human being you are…
And to those losers parading as bishops who wrote and signed the letter, I have three words for you,
Kiss…my…
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