[It's not that I'm getting lazy or anything. It's just that my friend Ben Finiti keeps putting up good stuff that I feel the need to share with you (his audience being much smaller than mine.) Anyway, here it is.]
Good Show, Cameron!
British Prime Minister David Cameron has made a most important speech. Unsurprisingly, our media didn’t notice.
On Dec. 16, he spoke at a Christ Church, Oxford celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. He proclaimed the Bible as still relevant, and admitted (confessed?) that Britain is in a very real sense a “Judeo-Christian Nation” He further articulated the Biblical origins of modern values such as equality, human rights, and morality.
The Judeo-Christian roots of the Bible also provide the foundations for protest and for the evolution of our freedom and democracy. The Torah placed the first limits on Royal Power. And the knowledge that God created man in his own image was, if you like, a game changer for the cause of human dignity and equality.
He also offered a sharp critique of modern “diversity” doctrines which have changed moderate tolerance into a disastrous abdication of responsibility.
I am grateful to George J. Marlin at The Catholic Thing (www.thecatholicthing.org) for shining a light on this speech. Marlin’s analysis is excellent, as is the rest of TCT.
Cameron’s full text is online at http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/king-james-bible/.
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