Curious About UK Christianity

[timf]

I am from the US. I am 75 years old. I have observed a dying of Christianity here. There are a couple of "last gasps". Charismatic and rock Christianity seem to have sporadic enthusiasm, but to me it seems based on self-stimulation.

I was curious as to the state of Christianity in the UK. From the reports we hear, you guys are in even worse shape than us. I hear a lot in the US of Christians who just stop going to church. We had to because we didn't want our children exposed to the worldliness of the other church goers. We do a sort of house church and listen to bible teachers that are still sound (also a diminishing resource).

We try to maintain friendships with other Christians, but the denominational imprint is so strong and Christian conversation has to be an echo of the other person's beliefs or has to be silent. It is a rare treat to encounter another Christian who is also interested in learning and growing in their faith.

 

[Rxlx]

I wrote to the top UK Anglican archbishop asking him 'Descended from Adam and Eve or evolved from monkeys?' Of course he said monkeys.
I asked local Anglican archbishop and got same reply.
I asked head of North England Methodists and was given a condescending smile and 'don't you know the first four books are poetry?'
Have you seen any tv nature documentaries by David Attenborough? For 60 years he's been saying everything evolved from something more primitive. He has brainwashed tens of millions of Brits into denying Creation.
No wonder so many people deny the Bible and are walking to their eternal oblivion for calling GOD and Jesus liars!

 

[timf]

Evolution is usually presented with a complexity that is intended to imply intellectual authority but is really obfuscation. I found it useful to reduce the complexity to the statement;

"Nothing existed and then it blew up and became everything, which subsequently organized itself into us."

Reduced to it's basics evolution seems less persuasive.