Vicars are urging Christians not to vote for the far-right British National Party in the London mayoral and Assembly elections today (Thursday).
Rev Jonathan Evens of St John's Seven Kings, High Road, Seven Kings, said the Church of England in the Barking Episcopal area believes the BNP's "racist policies and fascist philosophy" are "incompatible" with Christianity.
During a speech to the Redbridge and Epping Forest Together rally, held at Redbridge Town Hall, Mr Evens said: "One trend that is causing great alarm among churches is the tactic of presenting a racist agenda as Christian. This has been done explicitly by an organisation called 'The Christian Council of Great Britain', led by BNP candidate Robert West. We are deeply concerned that such people are appropriating Christian language and symbols for policies that are the very opposite of Christian values."
Mr Evens continued: "The Christian view is that all people are made in the image of God, and this leads us to a vision of a just community where people of all backgrounds live together in equality. The BNP and organisations such as The Christian Council of Great Britain, clearly reject that vision and so, as Christian churches, we oppose the racist policies and fascist philosophy of the BNP, stating clearly that they are incompatible with the Christian faith and calling on all church members to use their vote for democracy and against the BNP."
BNP mayoral candidate Richard Barnbrook launched a scathing counter-attack against Mr Evens and the Church of England, accusing them of ignoring the concerns of parishioners.
He said: "One or two people I know actually attend that church and three or four years ago it was quite popular, but now the flock is going back and considering whether the Church of England really does represent the people that go there. Maybe [Mr Evens] will be looking forward to the future when his church is turned into a mosque."
Mr Barnbrook challenged Mr Evens to invite him to a hustings at the church "so his congregation has a better understanding of our policies".
Ilford Recorder
May 01, 2008
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Mr Barnbrook challenged Mr Evens to invite him to a hustings at the church "so his congregation has a better understanding of our policies".
OK, then Richard Barnbrook should be invited to that Church to tell Mr Evens' congregation about the BNP's take on Christianity. Why? Because the BNP, at the end of the day, loathes Christianity. Perhaps Richard Barnbrook would like to explain just some of the following BNP views on Christianity.
John Tyndall, the BNP’s founder and leader, in his September 2003 article, 'Some Definitions: A sample from the Politically Aware Vocabulary series', wrote:
"What passes for Christianity in this country today can only be described as superstitious sociology; a bland doctrine of welfare-mongering with guilt, humility and self-abasement as its cardinal principles. We can only have contempt for a Church which, in the name of Christianity, facilitates the Islamic occupation of whole neighbourhoods, condones homosexuality, promotes multi-racialism and will forgive everything.
Our race is our religion, and the nation is our church".
Source: Spearhead magazine (edited by John Tyndall).
Then Lee Barnes, the BNP’s legal officer, posting under the name ‘Vader’, stated on the neo-nazi Stormfront forum in April 2003:
"The church is a nest of faggots and apostates.
"They use Christ to promote an agenda of communism.
"The Christian Church has become a homosexual death cult infiltrated by pederasts."
Most recently, Lee Barnes in his article, 'The Werewolf Complex'(5 February 2008), goes to the extent of calling Christianity an “alien religion” forced upon Britain and blames Christianity for both the World Wars, communism and consumerism! Here are Lee Barnes thoughts on Christianity from the article:
“Whilst Christianity has seen its own traditions of violence from the Warrior Knight Tradition, the Crusades, The Inquisition, Two World Wars and also spawned Fascism, Communism and Consumerism”
“The idea that the basis of violence is such a fragile Norse meme is absurd, and ignores the reality of the violence inherent in the Judeo-Christian traditions of Judaism, Christianity”
“To deny the theological and actual historical violence of the Semitic religions as a factor in the violence of Western Society is simply logically unsustainable, especially when Christianity dominates the culture of the West.”
“I, along with Rudgeley, assert that it is the centuries long brutal surpression of our ancestral cultures that have been repressed by Christianity and liberalism, that have caused the organic and spiritual crisis in Western Man and that it today springs forth as violence.”
"Nearly a thousand years of the Judeo-Christian extirpation of the indigenous pagan religious traditions of Europe, and the attempt to impose an alien religion with its alien archetypes, has created the spiritual, social and cultural crisis in Western Man.”
Further to this, in his article, 'Cultural review of the Year' (28 November 2007), Lee Barnes states that:
"The teachings of the Biblical jesus and the Biblical christ are a mixture of truth and deliberate falsehoods brought together in order to create and empower the church.”
In the same article BNP legal officer Barnes then claims that:
"The Bible is a political book constructed by Christians in the Roman Church from the time of Constantine to when Theodosius made it the state religion of Rome, and the allegories it contains were put in the Bible to support its own power and influence in the Holy Roman Empire. It is not the story of Christos.
The Church uses an allegorical astro-theological story for the life of christ because the christ the Church worships is not the true Christos of history or the Gnostic gospels. The christ of the Church is a creation of the church designed to serve the interests of the church and the demiurge Jehovah that the church worships, and therefore the christ of the church is a false christ who worships a false god according to the Gnostic texts.
There are fundamental differences between the manufactured christ of the Bible who is a creation of the Church, and the life and teachings of the Christos who actually lived. The former serves the Church and the demiurge Jehovah, whilst the latter serves the Spirit and the God of Amor who was Abba."
Can Barnbrook explain these views?
He [BNP mayoral candidate Richard Barnbrook] said: "One or two people I know actually attend that church and three or four years ago it was quite popular, but now the flock is going back and considering whether the Church of England really does represent the people that go there.
I think Richard Barnbrook is lying about his claim that he knows people who attend St John's Seven Kings church in Seven Kings.
If Richard Barnbrook did know anything about St John's Seven Kings church, then he would have known that:
a)the clergy at St John's Seven Kings church are from both Black African and White English backgrounds
b)that the parishioners/ congregation at St John's Seven Kings church is multi-racial, made up of Whites, Blacks and Asians. Just look at the photo of St John's Seven Kings’ congregation from its website:
http://www.stjohns7kings.org.uk/
In the photo you will see Christians from White, Black and Asian backgrounds together. You will see, for example, a White woman holding a Black child (something that the BNP will especially hate. So will Richard Barnbrook given his dislike of his brother’s mixed-race children).
What unites the congregation is their belief in Christianity. Not their belief in the fantasy of race, which is belief of Richard Barnbrook and the BNP.
If the link to the photo of St John's Seven Kings church's congregation in my previous post wasn't the right one, then here it is:
http://www.stjohns7kings.org.uk/pictures/congregation2007.jpg
The Church minister should have brought focus on the BNP's worship of Odin.
Odinism is a cult of nutcases...
odinists like lee barnes should be sectioned in psychiatric hospitals
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