Against Christianity?

I can't remember a time when there was so much anger around in this country against the Christian church. It has become a fashionable view.
The churches are lucky if they are half-full. There are non-religious reasons why this could be so, of course. People don't want to get up on Sunday in time to go to church, though the Catholics solve this by giving a choice of times for Mass. Sermons might better be offered as question and answer sessions instead of often incomprehensible or boring eulogies. There is also the feeling of misgiving about the elaborate vestments worn by the clergy, contrasting with the simple clothes of those in the pews. Would Christ have approved of those robes? Apart from that, it's difficult to see why in these days of increasing distrust of capitalism and a search after classlessness why so many are quarrelling with Christian doctrine.
Let's take a few quotations from the New Testament.
"We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, against rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places.." That's from St. Paul to the Ephesians, as they were then known. And it seems to include most of the bankers and market-driven governments people feel they are struggling against.
So does Paul's epistle to Timothy: "Having food and raiment, let us be content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition...For the love of money is the root of all evil..."
Well, that's one against the bankers and their bonuses. But the envious are told to withdraw themselves from all this love of money - only those of "corrupt minds" think that material gain is godliness.
Then, we are told, "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another..." That sounds like a reference to the House of Commons. Perhaps it should be posted there.
But faith is no use,apparently, without caring about others. "If I have faith that could move mountains and have not charity, I am nothing," said St. Paul in his epistle to the Corinthians.
And, finally, from the Acts of Christ's Apostles, a thought about the big housing investments of the rich and the homelessness of the poor. "The multitude who believed never thought anything they possessed as their own, but had everything in common. Nobody lacked anything. As many as possessed lands or houses sold them and distributed the profits to everyone according to their need."
Jesus Christ, in the world today, would most definitely be marked as one of the rebels against the present order and, so some leading Churchmen said at the time, would have been outside St. Paul's with Occupy London.
So why so much opposition to the Christian idea?

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