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I was going to post this, but you did it ahead of me!
Yesterday at school when I was looking up news at reuters.com, I found this and just shook my head. Hopefully this will lead more Episcopalians and Anglicans to Rome. Things like this really confirm my faith in Christ’s Church, not Henry VIII’s church.
Alaha minokhoun
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Anybody who believes that a country that has spent most of its history fighting against peoples who take politics and religion too seriously (plus having revolutions, civil wars, beheading a king and ‘encouraging’ the more religiously inclined to move to the American colonies) in the pursuit of ‘The Rule Of Law’ are going to accept the establishment of ‘reservations’ ruled by another system of law, doesn’t know the Brits.
On the other hand, religious courts determining things like whether somebody is religiously (as opposed to civilly) divorced is hardly going to excite.
On the other hand, religious courts determining things like whether somebody is religiously (as opposed to civilly) divorced is hardly going to excite.
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Sharia law is widely practiced in Muslim countries where this has been the tradition for centuries. In western democracies however, I do not see an easy coexistence between it and our common rule of law. Having said that I think it is a knee jerk reaction to condemn the archbishop without hearing his words in context. From what I understand he remarked that it is unavoidable that some aspects of this system will be adopted in order to create a more cohesive society (marital or financial matters) - He didn’t call for it to happen ( media sensationalism). I’m quite sure this would not be likely, but the reality in England is that a broad system of sharia law is practiced behind closed doors in the Muslin community. So in some areas it does surplant the English rule of law right now.
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Well, Catholics can’t get their marriages ended without an annulment so it could be said that Catholic ‘sharia’ supplants the ‘Rule of Law’, except, of course, that civil divorce is available and people can marry again - without religious blessing - so it doesn’t.
A Muslim citizen aggrieved by a religious ruling that affects their civil/economic rights has the remedy of going through the normal court system - a suspension of this is what would be unacceptable.
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I agree that in religious practice there can be a difference, as you have given as an example, that as adherents one would follow a religious expectation within that society, while at the same time being subject of and not in opposition to the wider laws of the land.
I do not agree with the Archbishop that in due coarse any part of Sharia law will be adopted in England, However I do understand from a churchman’s point of view that it may serve as an attempt to become more unified as British citizens. Tensions between aboriginal English and Muslim immigrants are very tense, in a way that we do not experience in North America. So I think that the comments made where offered as way to ease these tensions. I my opinion it would survive to increase rather than ease tensions, and would be an ill advised move. In Canada we rejected out-right the move to implement sharia law
I would still like to hear his comments in the context of his whole address.
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What is happening to the Anglican Confession?
Their statements never cease to amaze me.
CS Lewis and TS Elliot among other must be turning in their graves. Or crying in heaven if that is possible!
Their statements never cease to amaze me.
CS Lewis and TS Elliot among other must be turning in their graves. Or crying in heaven if that is possible!
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