On The Embarrassment Of Agreeing With The British Humanist Association

See this news report from the BBC:

BBC NEWS | Education | Churches push for school worship

Some church leaders want the Government to enforce the legal requirement in the UK for acts of collective worship in schools of a ‘broadly Christian character’. I am disturbed by their major claim for worship. Apparently it

“helps to equip young people to understand more about
themselves, foster a sense of the aesthetic and to cope with
life-changing moments.”

Since when was that Christian worship? This is such an anthropocentric (human-centred) definition. It is consumerist: what’s in it for me? There is nothing theocentric (God-centred) in these words at all.

Ironically the British Humanist Association said,

“A whole school can do many things together but, lacking
a shared religion, it is incoherent to believe that they can ‘worship’
together.”

They are onto the fact that there is something requiring coherence in true worship. As a Christian I would argue that it is found in the Trinity. But no, once more, those who speak on behalf of the Christian Church seem to have gone more for the ‘sales pitch’ than core truth.

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