Will we be banning the Commandments soon?
by Peter Mullen, CEN:
How long before the Bible becomes a banned book in Britain? And the Prayer Book Holy Communion service will not be far behind – because it includes the Bible’s Ten Commandments, which forbid behaviour enthusiastically approved of by our politically correct, secular and increasingly anti-Christian state. Let me take the Commandments in turn…
And God said, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. So God’s word is utterly opposed to our present arrangements that involve a multi-faith society where all gods are equal – which usually means equally irrelevant. And, of course, it’s OK to have no God at all in our world in which everyone has the right to their (sic) own opinion.
Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image. Well, we might not go in for actual engraving, but our whole way of life is dominated by the concept of the image. Above all, our quasi-medical, narcissistic culture tells us daily of the importance of maintaining our self-image. What else is advertising – ubiquitous and inescapable – except a procession of images? Philosophers for centuries argued the toss about appearance and reality. Today society has largely solved the philosophers’ problem by simply abolishing one of the terms: nowadays there is only the endless flux of appearances and images. So now no one can tell us what is meant by reality.
In our psychologised, subjectivist society no one speaks of a single reality but about what is real for you, which is often very different from what is real for me. As TS Eliot said in 1922, we know only a heap of broken images. Well, Tom, if you thought things were bad in your day, you should see us now!
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