From my experience of church life in London and Birmingham, spread over 40 years across several denominations, there is as much conflict within churches as there is in the world.
I have seen many people of a nervous, sensitive disposition become overwhelmed by cliques, an inner core of Christians lording it over others as if the laity were of a lower status.
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We accuse other cultures of barbaric behaviour when they chop off heads and darkly croon in our beer about the terrible inhumanity of man.
The gradual introduction of new speak into the lexicon of war narratives, of using the word ‘defence’ instead of ‘war office’, as a title for national militia for example, is a post modern phenomenon.
One would have to presume that as God is omnipresent and omniscient, barriers between the living and the dead do not exist in the same way as they do for those confined to the dimension of linear time.


