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Henry’s legacy
Not so the UK.
Many people now laugh at the well-meaning woolliness of the Church of England, but the fact
remains that it is the religion of state.
The Queen is not, as Prince Charles has said he would like to be, “Defender of Faith”, but
“Defender of the Faith”, the Supreme Governor of the Church of
England.
Twenty-six of her bishops have seats and voting rights in the
House of Lords. No other religion is afforded this privilege.
If the US constitution formally separates Church and State, then
British law formally entwines them.
And here is the real irony.
Far from making Britain a more religious place, this seems to
have made it less so.
Which is precisely the effect Henry VIII was after when he devised
the system, in the 16th Century. Inventing a new religion with
himself at its head was Henry’s way of keeping turbulent priests
in their place.
To this day, the critical voice of the Anglican Church is blunted by the fact that its leading bishops
are appointed by the prime minister. Very few ever bite the hand that feeds them.
Powerless religion
There is a critical balance between power and prophecy.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, says we remove religion from the political landscape at
our peril, because without what George W Bush once called “the vision thing”, politics is reduced
to short-term matters of popularity or profit.
By the same token, though, Dr Sacks is also adamant that the religious voice in politics should
remain powerless.
Religion’s ability to win people’s hearts and minds should depend on force of argument rather
than the argument of force.
Religion, he says, has at its worst been responsible for genocide, tyranny, despotism and
terrorism, but always and only when it has become confused with power.
“I can’t imagine anything worse than rule by religious leaders and I would have nothing to do
with it. You know, in ancient Israel you had people with power called kings and you had people
with no power at all called prophets. Now, can you remember the kings of Israel? I can’t.
“But the words of the prophets of Israel will never be forgotten as long as people turn their eyes to
heaven. And therefore it’s that voice from the side, the voice that speaks not to party politics and
immediate interest, but to the innermost soul of the human within us, the divine within us, which
actually succeeds because it has no power at all. And that is the kind of society I’d like to live in.”
The third episode of Michael Buerk’s series The Hand of God was broadcast at 2235 on
Tuesday 9 December, on BBC One.
Muslimansko iskazivanje vere u Evropi danas
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
One of the Queen’s jobs is to
defend the faith
Dr. Enes KarićMUSLIMANSKO ISKAZIVANJE VJERE U EVROPI DANAS
Različita shvatanja “euro-islama”
Vjerujem da pretpostavljate zašto moram, na samom početku, objasniti, bolje reći, opravdati naslov ove
besjede. A moram to učiniti jer i ovaj naslov i njegovo objašnjenje pokazuju usud današnjeg muslimanskog
življenja u Evropi, tim prije što katolički i protestantski teolozi danas nemaju potrebu objašnjavati “katoličko
iskazivanje vjere” ili “protestantsko iskazivanje vjere” u Evropi i na Zapadu. Gotovo da se u katoličkoj i
protestantskoj literaturi ne mogu naći naslovi tipa “euro-katoličanstvo” ili “euro-protestantizam”, ili su