Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
A retired Anglican bishop who now works on behalf of persecuted Christians worldwide has a message for those who believe the answer to preventing more Islamic terrorism is promoting secular values: Only Christianity can save Europe from the radical Islamists threatening it.
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, who is originally from Pakistan, writes at The Catholic Herald: “The truth of the matter is that Europe needs to recover its grand narrative by which to live, by which to determine what is true, good and beneficial for its people.
“The nostrums of Marxism and Fascism have brought frightful suffering for its people. Now another totalitarian ideology threatens.
“A truly plural space can only be guaranteed by intrinsically Christian ideas of the dignity of the human person, respect for conscience, equality of persons and freedom not only to believe but to manifest our beliefs in the public space, without discrimination against or violence to those who do not share them.
“Instant self-gratification and endless entertainment will no more contribute to contemporary European survival than they did to ancient Roman. What is needed is an ethic of service, selflessness and sacrifice for the sake of the common good.
“Many will recognise this as the teaching of the Galilean Master, not of any paganism, ancient or modern, nor of any ideology, secular or religious.”
• Bishop Michael’s full article.
• Anglican Mainstream.
• ‘Compassion to refugees, not capitulation to Islamic State’.
