Great Britain as a Christian Country
Created | Updated Apr 21, 2014
~~Great Britain as a Christian Country
Christian Civilization used the teachings of Jesus, blended with Greek thought and art and Roman ‘arts’ of government to make it possible for people to live together in a peace and harmony that replaced the Roman divide and rule. From the days of Trevor Huddlestone and Chief Luthuli it was central to the resistance to the policies of ‘separate development’ adopted by the government of South Africa, based on the ‘separatist’ beliefs of the Dutch Reform Church.
Nelson Mandela came to say “The struggle is my life” but this was not so much a struggle against as a struggle for that vision. And that ‘at heart’ is a struggle not of the mind but of heart and soul, that are often bruised, battered and neglected by the modern world.
So when Winnie Mandela was sent to prison in 1975 Nelson Mandela wrote to her- “you may find that the cell is an ideal place to learn to know yourself, to search realistically, and regularly the process of your own mind and feelings…But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one’s development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others- qualities that are within reach of every human soul- are the foundation of one’s spiritual life.” (page 211)
The crucial part of Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom” was that interior one in search of his “development as a human being” that made it possible for him to lead South Africa into a new era as a Rainbow Nation. But a rainbow depends upon separation, and for Sir Isaac Newton, revealing that light is made up of the colours of the spectrum was only a half-way house. The real miracle was then using a second prism that restored the oneness of ‘white light’, which is ‘invisible’ in daylight conditions.
England, the bedrock of Great Britain, was built as a search for oneness that “Made the Modern World”: but no longer really lives with the spirit and ‘spiritual exercises’ of a Commonweal. Now it is fashionable to believe that everyone can ‘do their own thing’ regarding their spiritual and emotional as well as in their physical health: and the obesity crisis and the projected curtailing of life-expectancy are a ‘Picture of Dorian Grey’ revelation of the state of the nation’s soul.
