What will the death of Queen Elizabeth mean for the world? We look at reactions and discussion on this. With Queen, John Anderson, Charles Moore, The New York Times, Gavin Ashenden, Zadok the Priest, Ben Judah, Oliver Cromwell and Charles 1, Liz Truss, the Muir of Ord Chippie, Patrick Harvie, Adam Bandt, Caitlain Moran, an Aboriginal Elder, King Charles, St Giles, Karen Matheson, Tim Farron, Tim Keller, Keith and Krsyten Getty and Stuart Townend – and of course, the Queen!
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A statement from the Hon. John Anderson AC regarding the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
May she rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/89mjTZK6Li
— John Anderson AC (@JohnAndersonAC) September 9, 2022
The King offering premium content to his Presbyterian followers this morning. https://t.co/6fH2cBiIr0
— Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) September 10, 2022
Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the late Queen “was a constant to us all… but the constant in her life was her faith in Jesus Christ.”
Her religion was neither perfunctory nor ceremonial but “a living, active faith in a living Saviour”. pic.twitter.com/Waq5Y3HnIa
— Andrew Cusack (@cusackandrew) September 9, 2022
“What would you say to a young Christian who’s nervous about the future?” @DrMoore asks @TimKellerNYC.
I love his answer. pic.twitter.com/xBJtlbTiHN
— Matt Smethurst (@MattSmethurst) September 14, 2022
The last 70 years have shown us quite conclusively that a nation cannot maintain the fruits of Christian teaching without maintaining the roots. The secular notion that all religions, or no religion at all, can provide the same moral framework as Christianity has been utterly disastrous for the West and I cannot see any way back from the abyss for our civilisation. Humanist traditions and other religions haven’t got the moral substance or authority that faith in Jesus has.
As far as I can tell, the foundational lie which sits at the heart of secular ‘morality’ is the notion that human beings are basically good and can find our own way. I don’t think any other philosophy has been quite so destructive in all of history. It’s like trying to set up a village in some remote part of the jungle and saying “Yeah, snakes are basically harmless”, when all knowledge and experience about snakes says the opposite, and then wondering why people keep dropping dead after snake bites.