The Church of England has issued a pastoral letter – a euphemism for thinly disguised propaganda designed to nudge the unwary into trendy ecclesiastical green socialism – to guide the British public on which party to vote for in the forthcoming election.

As this article notes, the letter is ‘a combination of the policies of the Greens, SNP and the Labour Party.”

Even more damaging is this:

In a particularly cutting remark former Tory minister Lord Tebbit, after describing the Bishops as “mostly wrong” said, “In my experience, when people are not doing very well in their own job, they become very much better at telling other people how to do theirs.”

Tebbit is correct. The Church of England bishops have made such a calamitous mess of the Church of England that it is astonishing that they have the chutzpah to think that anyone would listen to their recipe for creating a better society.

Even worse, a non-Christian who reads this letter and does not share the bishops’ leftist bias – who thinks they are “mostly wrong” – has no reason to listen to anything else the bishops might say: the message of the Gospel, for example, a smattering of which is contained in the letter. By playing at politics, the bishops are jeopardising the souls of those to whom they should be offering the apolitical salvation of Jesus Christ.

Much of what is in the letter is twaddle. The social cohesion the bishops would like to see flourish cannot be achieved through politics. When it existed, it was a result of a common understanding that the moral foundation the society was Christianity. The Church should have defended this with all its might; instead, it pandered to the false gods of diversity, inclusion, equality, eco-justice, multiculturalism and inter-faith nonsense.

Politics alone cannot correct this and, sadly, on the spiritual side of the battle the church has already capitulated to the enemy.