To be British is to be Protestant: Pre-Post

 

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” -Ephesians 6: 12

Let me start off by starting what will likely get stones thrown at me: To be British, is to be Protestant. Yes, I know that I am saying something politically incorrect. Nowadays, many people accept religious pluralism. Society accepts Islamophobia, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Semitism as great enemies of democracy, but criticism of Protestant Christianity (especially White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christianity) is totally more acceptable. The media has a way of defending multiculturalism, black supremacy, interreligious dialogue, ecumenism, feminism, atheism, agnosticism, universalism, and even Roman Catholicism (as long as Roman Catholics do what Pope Francis says of course). Ultimately, the historic beliefs of Protestant Christians are now seen as the enemy of globalism. Supporters of nationalism are labeled as white supremacist by the radical left. After all, loving your heritage is apparently racist in case you didn't know (if you are a white person that is). Those that wish to return to the Christian ideas of the classical and medieval past, or even to those of the Victorian age, are somehow accused of every criticism in the dictionary from the communist (known nowadays as ''socialist''). The left is quite hypocritical towards the ideas of traditional protestants. For the feminist it is okay that Muslim women cover their heads, though if a Christian woman wears a chapel veil in church, she is seen as holding ''oppressive views against women.'' It is okay for the supporters of Black Lives Matter to support black history month and honour the heretic Martin Luther King Jr. (who denied the Trinity, and questioned the Virgin birth), but Christians that denounce slavery yet honour their founding fathers or select confederate heroes are seen as ''white supremacist.'' For the liberal activists, it is okay to have marches for LGBTQ, but not for traditional marriage. 

No one on earth is more hypocritical than the leftist. That is a fact that I am strongly convinced of. Their accusations of Christians as being racist, white supremacist, anti-women, are almost always unfounded. I have seen much more racism on the left towards the right than vice versa. Ultimately, the feminist, the LGBTQ, and the BLM all use each other for their leftist agendas. Each of these three groups are out for their own benefits, but they unite whenever they can to suppress laws against abortion or illegal immigration. The BLM supporters in particular, find a way out of every situation in which their supporters have inflicted violence upon Americans by resorting to accusations against their opponents as racist. The Democratic party has made plenty of use of these three groups, that serve as puppets for their greatest regime: globalism. Yes, the leaders of the left use all other social or fiscal issues to enable them to have a total global control. The feminist, perhaps the least abominable of these three sects, have been for decades mislead by a corrupt political party that covers for its own Pedophile leaders. 

Concerning globalism, I think Britain is finally on the better path than it has been in decades. The British realize that the European Union has for a longtime been taken advantage of in terms of fiscal and social issues. I am less optimistic about America than I am Britain. My lack of optimism for America is for several reasons including the higher population of Roman Catholics in the United States than in the United Kingdom. As many of the papist worship their Antichrist leader in the Vatican, and follow the discretion of their leftist bishops concerning political issues, I doubt any sense of hope concerning many of the Roman Catholics voting for conservatives anytime soon. More and more, I see now why many American Protestants felt Roman Catholics did not belong in this country. I do blame many of the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church for the success of the Democrats in the recent elections. 

While most people would probably not doubt Britain's Christian heritage, many Roman Catholics would staunchly claim Britain's heritage to be Roman Catholic. I disagree. Britain has been a Protestant Reformation, as evidence against Britain's more recent Protestant nature, I don't think the pre-reformation heritage of the British isles in any way supports current Roman Catholicism. It is often forgotten that many in Northern Europe (including Britain) were trying to reform the church from within at least a century before Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Thesis (Bevington, 1975, p. 939). Further, as I have discussed in previous posts, I don't believe the British Church before 1066 was theologically identifiable to what it became after the Norman Conquest. After the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-Saxons were largely suppressed by the Normans, whom tended to support the reforming papacy of the eleventh century more than did the Anglo-Saxons. However, even in the following centuries, many Anglo-Normans continued to dispute with the papacy over the authority of the monarchy vs. the papacy. Thus, in my view, Britain was never a pro-papal supremacist island. 

I know, I am getting off topic. I just feel that I have so much to say at once. Now, that I have gotten all of that said, let me reflect on why a love for British literature leads one to Protestantism as it did for me.