The prominent British Catholic priest, Calvin Robinson, recently gave a dire warning to American Christians about leftism and the direction the United States is heading in as Christianity’s cultural foothold slips in the West. Pointing to the consequences of what happened in his home country, he urged U.S. citizens not to sit back and be complacent while liberals “deteriorate” culture.
“Please don’t do what we did,” he said. “Please don’t just sit back and let the liberals deteriorate the rest of everything that you know and love.” He added, “Be careful. American culture is a fantastic culture. Hold on to it, promote it, encourage it. If you want to become multicultural and let other cultures in, that’s something you have to consider. But do not give it up to the detriment of your own.”
Robinson recently left the U.K. to run a parish ministry in Michigan. However, he noted that the same spiritual and political forces that undermined Western values in England are occurring in the United States as well. Racial tensions have spiked in the U.K. resulting from mass migration, where cultural conflict has rocked British society.
According to Robinson, the U.K. “seems to have imploded and entirely lost its common sense.” The Catholic priest pointed out that the British government is threatening to imprison citizens for sharing what is deemed to be hateful or inflammatory rhetoric, while releasing criminal due to overcrowding.
Robinson also called out the church of England, claiming, “The Church of England has become very liberal in terms of divorce, sex outside marriage, same-sex relationships, transgenderism. And every time the Church tries to be more inclusive, it actually becomes more exclusive to Christianity and to Christian values, and more inclusive to worldly values and just further plummets that downward trajectory.”
He further described the cultural drift where Christianity has begun to be abandoned in favor of secular offerings. “We’re starting to see the bad fruits of that. And so, without our Christian moral compass, without our Christian values, without our Christian ethics, without any of that, we are grasping at straws. And this is why we’re seeing some woke ideologies temporarily take the place of what used to be Christian,” he said.
While he acknowledged that the U.S. slightly lags behind Europe in terms of cultural phenomenon, Robinson warned that America will soon face the same problems if action is not taken now. “These kinds of trends are happening in the States, too, I think,” he said. “Be careful. American culture is a fantastic culture. Hold on to it, promote it, encourage it. If you want to become multicultural and let other cultures in, that’s something you have to consider. But do not give it up to the detriment of your own,” he said.
Despite all of these troubling signs for Christianity in the West, Robinson maintains that he does not despair, having faith that everything falls into God’s sovereign plan for the universe. “I don’t despair at all,” he noted. “Despair is a sin. There’s no sense in despairing. As I say, empires rise and fall. So as this empire — the British Empire, or Western civilization — as it falls, it’s our duty to think big picture and remember that God has a plan, and He only permits things for a reason.”
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