A Review of Christians in the Community of the Dome by Julian Mann
by Rob Slane, The blogmire:
Visiting the Millennium Dome in the spring of 2,000 was something of a seminal moment for me. New Labour had been in Government for just under three years, and although I had started to grow uneasy about what they were all about, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what exactly that was. The Dome changed all that. I travelled there with a reasonably open mind, thinking that given the huge sums of money they had spent on it, it ought to at least have some redeeming features.
Alas no. As I stood inside that vast monument to the New Labour Project, it began to dawn on me what that was all about: the consigning of Christian Britain to the dustbin of history, and the embarking on a radical journey to become a completely different people in the way we think, behave and live. As Tony himself would have said, it was all about ‘the future, not the past’. Of course, they called it progressivism, but in reality it was the opposite. We were turning the clock back to paganism. New Paganism, of course, but paganism all the same.
In the years that followed, a raft of changes occurred which demonstrated this radical shift, but the details often seem to get lost in the mists of time. Which is why I’m grateful for Julian Mann’s new book, Christians in the Community of the Dome which, amongst other things, charts many of these changes (Julian is a fellow contributor to The Conservative Woman website).
Interestingly, Julian also seems to have recognised the Dome as a symbol for what came after, as he begins his book with a short story imagining the Community of the Dome – a place where all that was has been forgotten, and all that is was made up about five minutes ago. There is a Modernisation Commission and a People’s Media. A Winterval break and a Guevara term. A Lennon Zone and a Spirituality Zone, lined with banks of computers. There is Voluntary Self-Euthenasia, available to people of all ages. Some of it is reminiscent of the Dome, some of it is pretty close to where we are today, and some of it hints at where we soon might be.
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