| | In August of 2011, the ''[[Baptist]] Bulletin'' reported: | | In August of 2011, the ''[[Baptist]] Bulletin'' reported: |
| | {{cquote|Well-known columnist [[Cal Thomas]] has come out remarking that the recent race riots in Britain are indicative of tremendous spiritual problems, reports WORLDmag.com. Said Thomas: “Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] recalled Parliament from its summer session to discuss the situation and to present a ‘united’ front. But that, along with condemnations ‘in the strongest terms,’ won’t address the real problem, which many Britons may not wish to confront. The problem in Britain, and increasingly in America, is moral and spiritual, not economic and political. British history and values are no longer being adequately taught in the UK for fear a sense of super-nationalism might be conveyed. This at a time when no nation is to be considered superior to any other, a view expressed by President Obama. According to a 2007 research report on church attendance in the UK from Tearfund, a UK Christian relief and development agency, just ’15 percent of UK adults go to church at least once a month.’ BBC News reports that according to a 2001 Census survey, ‘a fifth of children are in lone-parent families . . . 91 percent of these families headed by mother’ and there is ‘a minority of married couples for the first time—45 percent of the population versus 64 percent in 1981.’ So when the government calls on parents to be more vigilant about the whereabouts of their teenagers, the likelihood there are enough stable two-parent households who care enough to do so is not encouraging.<ref>[http://baptistbulletin.org/?p=17677 Cause of Britain’s Race Riots “Moral and Spiritual”]</ref>}} | | {{cquote|Well-known columnist [[Cal Thomas]] has come out remarking that the recent race riots in Britain are indicative of tremendous spiritual problems, reports WORLDmag.com. Said Thomas: “Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] recalled Parliament from its summer session to discuss the situation and to present a ‘united’ front. But that, along with condemnations ‘in the strongest terms,’ won’t address the real problem, which many Britons may not wish to confront. The problem in Britain, and increasingly in America, is moral and spiritual, not economic and political. British history and values are no longer being adequately taught in the UK for fear a sense of super-nationalism might be conveyed. This at a time when no nation is to be considered superior to any other, a view expressed by President Obama. According to a 2007 research report on church attendance in the UK from Tearfund, a UK Christian relief and development agency, just ’15 percent of UK adults go to church at least once a month.’ BBC News reports that according to a 2001 Census survey, ‘a fifth of children are in lone-parent families . . . 91 percent of these families headed by mother’ and there is ‘a minority of married couples for the first time—45 percent of the population versus 64 percent in 1981.’ So when the government calls on parents to be more vigilant about the whereabouts of their teenagers, the likelihood there are enough stable two-parent households who care enough to do so is not encouraging.<ref>[http://baptistbulletin.org/?p=17677 Cause of Britain’s Race Riots “Moral and Spiritual”]</ref>}} |