h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

After trying to get some answers about what folks thought about the Anglican religion and its recent sink to the lowest forms of sin so as to be acceptable to sinners, there is one step to follow this.

It appears to me that Almighty God has put His hand, at last, against the Anglican religion, and I believe we will see it disappear, or all but disappear, in the next two or three years.

As sinners are now being more honest, and straining after all manner of evil, and constantly testing for every deeper pockets of depravity to plumb, the nominal Christians are forced to choose. Their choice is between holiness unto the Lord, or sin. They will, of course, choose sin. They cannot do anything else.

This country is now virtually as pagan/heathen as it was before the gospel arrived here, some time around three years post the Day of Pentecost. Seeing as nominals, in their heart of hearts, really want the way of the world, they will, as the world ceases to be hypocritical, and aspire to Christian things, go off with the world. We are now looking at the UK becoming an Antichrist secular humanistic state, where morality is relative to whatever people want. The Anglican religion will disappear, and the few that are the Lord's in it will have to meet as the Lord wants.

It is very sad to see people cease from reaching up to a standard, and now straining for the lowest, but it is all prophesied. Jesus said, "As in the days of Noah, and as in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man." In the days of Noah the Earth was full of violence, it is now. In the days of Lot Sodom and Gomorrah were full of sodomy and all manner of filthy sexual depravity, so beloved of media/politician/worldly types today.

It appears that Judgement has begun as the Bible says. It starts with the church. From the real Christians, and then out through the nominals to the world, is how God works. Say goodbye to the Anglican religion, and its mother, the Catholic religion.

"the Anglican religion [...] I believe [...] will [...] disappear, or all but disappear, in the next two or three years."

I hope you're right, I really do. I don't think you are though. However, there's no reason at all why you should not be posting on this website at that point in the future, so I shall be certain to remind you of this prophecy when the time is appropriate. You will no doubt take great delight in pointing out to me that you were right, two years from now, when there are no longer any Anglican bishops in the House of Lords, the Archbishop of Canterbury no longer inhabits Lambeth Palace, and the words "Fid Def" or letters "F.D." have been removed from all British coinage and every Anglican church in the country has been turned into a carpet warehouse.

Of course, given that you define most of the words you use differently from the rest of England, I expect you'll have your own definition of what would constitute the "disappearance" of the Anglican church.

Would you care to elaborate exactly what you mean by "all but disappear", in order that we are able to give you proper credit when the time comes to acknowledge your prophecy as accurate?

(As an aside, I might add that you haven't really waited very long to see what people think of the question you posed in "Askh2g2". If I were you, I'd ask it again, more carefully and neutrally this time in order to make sure the first post isn't hidden. You see, the first post in an "Ask" thread is terribly important, particularly if it's an attempt at a survey of opinions as yours is. Getting it hidden is terribly counterproductive. Of course, if you're not honestly interested what people think, and just wanted another opportunity to rant to a new audience, please ignore my suggestions.)

Hi Justin

As we have discussed before neither this country nor any other ever met this 'standard' of yours. Thus they cannot be turning away from it. You knowledge of history is as poor as your understanding of the meaning of your own scripture.

For instance this country is nowhere as pagan/heathen as when christianity arrived in the second century C.E. At that time the country was divided between followers of the imperial cult (about 15% of the population, mostly immigrants) and those following the Gods of the Celts, Picts and Brythons.

If I was to be generous I might claim that pagans and heathens make up 2% of the population of modern Britain (it is somewhere between half that or twcie that, probably the smaller figure).

Add to that the 4% following Islam, 0.5% Jewish, 2% Hindu/Buddhist and 0.5% Sikh and you have maybe 9%. 75% of Britains in the recent census believed they were christians, thus the number of confirmed atheists and agnostics comes in at about 16%.

As for judgement, you lot have been claiming that is on its way every generation since Christ was nailed to a tree. The last time was the millenium (even though it was 7 years out of whack ).

Tell me Justin, why are you so keen to see the end of the world? Is the guilt you bear so heavy and painful that the destruction of billions of innocents is the only way you can see to expurgate it?

It is about time you started answering my questions, or people are going to start believing you are hiding from me because I may, just may, be right. I know that I can be wrong and am willing to admit it when it happens (which is often enough). Is is possible for you in your pride to do the same?

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

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There you go being all hypocritical again. You don't think this situation (if it were actually happening anywhere outside your mind) is sad at all. You're loving it. You can't wait for your Jesus to come and send all of us to the Lake of Fire. Hypocrite?

Meanwhile, when *exactly* was it that people were reaching up to a standard? Presumably you mean your standard. I'd like to know when this was.

az

There have always been people who try to attain high ethical standards, and there have always been people who don't, and it's always been the case that most folks are somewhere in between.

And there have always been those who *define* standards as "conforming to their own prejudices and bigotry."

So what's new?

Noggin

Justin:

A little test for you. You were unable or unwilling to phrase your survey about attitudes to the Anglican church in a words acceptable to reasonable people. I myself do not suffer this handicap, so I have taken it upon myself to pose the question you purport to be interested in myself - in the most neutral manner I can manage.

I urge you NOT to contribute - you, and we, know well already what your views are, and they are not the ones any of us are interested in. Any contribution you make will only skew the responses made by other members of this community. If you are truly, honestly interested in what people think - read what they write and do not reply. If you must reply to any points any specific person has made, I suggest you do so directly to them on their personal space, rather than diverting the thread onto some question of personal dogma.

It will be interesting to me, and presumably others, what you choose to do now - whether you really are interested, as you say you are, in what people think, or whether you are simply looking for a platform on which to rant to a new audience.

The thread is here: F19585?thread=385518 . There have already been some interesting responses from people who have not contributed to the thread as you started it.

If you disagree with or have a problem with the way I have worded the question, please take it up with me HERE, and I shall do my best to rephrase it to meet your requirements. Again, I urge you not to simply hijack the thread and rephrase it yourself - that would be counterproductive.