Re:President: Pastor A Scott Williams || Royal Society of St George - Australia || Coffs Harbour Branch
(Date Posted:08/03/2009 06:33:54)
My My, This really is quite sad, isn't it. What stake does Williams really have in this British Israel nonsense? Is it his fanaticism or is it another way that he can exert his power over over yet another group of people by claiming some sort of racial superiority. This society's 1st objective is: "To foster the love of England and to strengthen England and the Commonwealth by spreading the knowledge of English history, traditions and ideals."
I know that Scott always claims that the British Empire was what spread Christianity and civilisation to the world (an argument that I'm sure many would take exception to this) but come on! The celebration of Englishness!?! Even if you subscribe to the British Israel theory, surely you can't justify patting yourself (as a nation) on the back. This would never be tolerated on an individual basis so why on a national basis? Furthermore, I would find it hard to believe that anyone would start a similar society to celebrate the nation of the Israel of the Old Testament. They constantly fell short of God's glory and they constantly transgressed. It seems that British Israelists like to forget the transgressions that Britain has made, over the centuries, and concentrate on a few good points that came out of an essentially dark era.
Anyway, where is Jesus in all of this?
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