Pity The Church of Christianity

It has become, for so many, largely redundant to their needs. People look elsewhere, although where that might be is in itself a conundrum. They should be looking deep inside themselves, to forage among vestiges of memories redolent of self-discovery, of innate knowledge of right and wrong, and the embrace of rational judgement; of true and availing values.

This was once the precinct of the church upon whose reliability of purpose people leaned, but it has become somehow, effete, striking out to form people's sensitivities in a way that most now reject.

Christianity irrelevant to the world in which we now live? Perhaps, perhaps not.

It is not the Roman Catholic Church which has moved aside and piously welcomed Islam into the bosom of its reality. That church appears, albeit embattled, able to withstand the winds of change through its insistence on historical and heritage soundness.

Pathetic that human beings require the comfort that belief in a human construct of a higher order of intelligence gives them, but this is reality.

While the Christian Church - the Protestant portion of it - appears to have surrendered its purpose and history to the increasingly violently belligerent imperatives of the mosque, fanatical jihadists find comfort in its retreat, its willingness to make common cause, not with jihad of necessity, but of the necessity for jihad as expressed by the Muslim clerics who quietly support jihad.

They have, as a source for approach to the Divine, been misinterpreted, misunderstood, scorned and overlooked for far too long. This is their revenge.

And the progenitor of both the Christian and the Muslim faith is beset with murderous intent. Islamists identifying the original Mosaic faith of the Jews as errant, and the Jews themselves as impostors, cravenly unworthy to be seen as the inheritors of the original faith.

Nor are the infidels, those Crusaders who battled Islamic warriors and those who diminished the geographic holdings of proselytizing Islam any more acceptable as creatures of God. His will be done, and it is Allah, not any other manifestation of the Divine that will do.

God's creatures have lost their way, forgetting that God is the impulse to self-restraint in us all.