Rioting: Due to Physical or Spiritual Neglect?

The riots that have in recent days resulted in the burning and looting of many major cities in my country are attributed to several things by the mainstream media. 

The Conservative party claims that the riots are a result of neglect by the previous government, while the Labour party claims that the riots are a result of cuts to funding by the current government.

Both of these ridiculous buck-passing explanations are in fact true, but they are only the result of short-sightedness and bad management, mere symptoms of the real cause for the disorder.

It is certainly the case that many of those committing the worst of the violence were from ethnic minorities, feeling no allegiance to this nation. The lack of any inherited graces or social mores that keep the host society in working order must have contributed to the barbarity of the situation.

But it is also the case that many of those looting, smashing and burning were as ethnically British as I am, and they still engaged in this depravity with as much gusto as the foreign born ones.

I suspect that it is the collapse of Christian morality in this nation has allowed their kind to multiply. The sad fact is that many people will not seek out spiritual guidance unless it is mandated to them. If it has not been hoisted upon them, they will simply default into an animalistic state of being.

Christian society sustains itself when people who understand the divine basis of morality uphold these rules amongst those with whom they dwell. Christianity has concepts of duty, where people must work if they hope to live, and where criminality is punished harshly, lest leniency invite even worse offences, and where charity and compassion are the basis of a man’s interactions with his fellows. 

Christianity forms a bulwark that ensures that those who do not understand why this must be the way of things, are at least able to reap the benefits of living in a society that does understand. 

With their material needs justly cared for by a society that is neither too lenient nor too cold hearted, these people can focus more of their energies on improving their spiritual understanding and their relationship with God.

But the secularist agitators have told us that enforcing Christian morality is “hateful” that it “restricts choice” and other phrases that sound horrible at first, but on closer inspection sound like the foot stamping of a naive child.

Nonetheless, they had their way, and the duty to work became nothing but a right to sit around in a sunken state of poverty, gripped only by carnal thoughts. The removal of harsh criminal punishments were lauded as an enlightened society treating people with compassion, while the real compassion and love afforded to fellow Christians was derided as old fashioned and unnecessary restraint on personal freedom.

Without these things to restrain them, many people, without jobs to occupy them, and without a spiritual education to guide their actions, have lost all sense of moral values, to the point where their actions are guided solely by whether it grants them some cheap gratification in the short term.

As we can see, without love for their fellow countrymen, there is no reason in their minds not to burn down houses and livelihoods, loot the shops of the hard working and murder innocent bystanders. The suffering of others is not taken into consideration, because in a secularist society, you cannot receive any punishment if you cannot be traced.

Those who fear God live their lives feeling they are under close scrutiny, and conduct their affairs accordingly.

I believe that these riots, having shown these degenerated people that they can do exactly what they want, and get away with it, will spark a change in the way the lowest orders of our society think about disorder. They have a taste for it now, and once this is forgotten about, it will probably begin to happen again, until it becomes a common occurrence, and our streets will not be safe at night, populated by feral packs of animals, dwelling only in the materialist plane.

It can be stopped very quickly if people would only make the tough decisions that Christianity mandates, but alas, the secularists would rather enjoy cheap freedoms now, while their country collapses all around them later. In this respect, they are as bad as those doing the actual rioting. It comes down to whether one is willing to put the laws of God before one’s own desires.

The Failure of Religions to deal with Lawbreakers

The continued failure of religious institutions to respond effectively to criminal allegations is one of the most damaging problems that religion has, and it gives much ammunition to those who wish to remove worship of God from the face of human society.

When the Catholic Church covers up instances of child abuse, what they believe they are doing is being forgiving with the perpetrators, or believe that they can handle these issues in a more Christian manner than the secular authorities.

The problem I have with this attitude, however, is that very rarely is anything done about it, and the abuses can carry on for years. I have very little respect left for irreligious governments, but they are usually still willing to come down heavily on child abusers, perhaps because they have allowed every other degeneracy to affect our children that they are compelled to react strongly against the one remaining taboo. And it is definitely a taboo to them, a mere societal prejudice, and not the foul abomination and ignorance of God’s law that Christians know it is.

If the Catholic church were willing to punish it’s tenured criminals with the full force that the Bible instructs them to, then there would be little need for the weak measure of justice meted out by the state. But as they are unwilling to undertake this work themselves, they should inform those who will act in the children’s best interests. 

This would show that Christians value just and protective laws, and it would dispel this air of secrecy and mysticism that terrifies many irreligious people into militant atheism. By standing up for national justice when it is in accordance with the word of God, and actively resisting it when it is ungodly, Christians can better hope to influence the world around them, and convince others that our moral compass is attuned in the same general direction as theirs is, even if they do not yet understand the source of is power. 

When that happens, we’ll look a lot less like a secretive clique maintaining the status quo, and we’ll start to look like campaigners for what is right. Of course, this won’t change the opinions of the most hardline atheists, but it will doubtless make the ordinary people far less critical of the concept of religion as a whole.

It is probably only the intense tribal loyalty of many Catholics that allows their institution to continue in spite of such revelations of abuse. If such widespread criminality had been uncovered in the Anglican Church, it would be virtually deserted by its comparatively transient churchgoers. In fact, it has already been heavily abandoned, for lesser evils than occurred in the Catholic Church. If anything, it has been deserted for being too mealy mouthed and modern.

I would ask any Christian who sees the apathy and degeneracy within their church if they should seek out a more truly Christian congregation, or if they should continue to be preached to by hypocrites and sex offenders.

Alas, it seems that traditionalism has a strong hold on Christian hearts, even where, as Jesus Christ said, those traditions transgress the laws of God.

This probably accounts for the growing popularity of the Eastern Orthodox church in Britain. Christians who abandon the Catholic and Anglican churches are often unwilling to consider a more modern church, even where the newer church is a stricter follower of Christian doctrine as laid down in the Bible.

Therefore, a Church that maintains an ancient tradition, while being less open to corruption, tends to attract the more conservative Christians. It is probably a better outcome than going to the liberal churches, in any case.

But I believe there is an inevitable problem with having wide ranging Christian institutions. This problem is that they are, despite the best intentions of their congregations, open to being corrupted and waylaid by ambitious clergy, who use the unwavering loyalty of their congregations to achieve ungodly ends.

I would advocate that any individual Church that maintains a belief that the word of God in the Bible is the basis of all law, should avoid any attempt to place their congregation under the power of some overarching body.

The risks with appointing a leader of the religion is that you may put a man in the place of God, and if that man is not virtuous, the entire religion is corrupted by his diktats. An independent Church is better equipped to deal with individual crimes, if they do not have any history of abuse, and will not attract the ire of secular bodies when their power is minimal. Moreover, if one good church is corrupted, others will remain unaffected.

Of course, there is nothing to stop communication between different churches, but there are great risks when one attempts to place a central authority over many of them. In the end, those independent churches which stay true to the laws of the Bible should be united under the eternal dominion of Jesus Christ.