ONLY ONE MAN WHO CAN SAVE BRITAIN FROM ISLAM

What will the spiritual landscape of Britain look like in 2050?

This question occupied Cranmer's Curate's thoughts whilst he was kept awake last night by the new family dog who goes by the name of Nelson. It was nocturnal yelps from the canine victor of Trafalgar that woke your curate up at two in the morning. Plus two cats running around.

The Church of England will almost certainly have lost national representation by 2050. Most of its parish churches will have closed down because of numerical and financial melt-down.

There may be an established religion of some sort rolled out for national occasions. But that is likely to be a syncretistic religion with the Christian element in the pot-pourri very weak.

With Liberal Protestantism dead by 2050, Christianity in the United Kingdom is likely to be Evangelical, with adherents distributed between mega-churches and house churches, and Roman Catholic, concentrated in sacramental centres in conurbations.

Will there be a predominant religion or will we have as many gods as we have towns?

Cranmer's Curate is not the first to speculate that Islam could emerge as the leading if not the established religion in Britain in the second half of the 21st century.

The underlying reason for the likely success of Islam is the situation regarding boys and young men in Britain.

With the educational system biased towards girls; with the feminisation of society’s institutions and opinion forming media; with the social and institutional structures boys and young men need undermined by rampant criminality; with employment becoming increasingly difficult for large numbers of young men; Islam is likely to prove very attractive for socially disenfranchised indigenous British males who wish to escape the grip of aimlessness and criminality on many of their peers.

Indeed, it could be very attractive for those involved or semi-involved in criminality with its promise of redemption and purpose. Britain’s teeming prisons could thus become a significant recruiting ground for Islam.

Under this scenario, the next generation of suicide bombers would be predominantly white.

The only other world-view that could rival Islam in its attraction for young males is Evangelical Christianity. This is already happening. Evangelical churches are able to attract young men with a clear Gospel message, engaging Bible teaching and a robust Christian world-view that emphasises thought rather than feeling and action rather than relational networking.

In the battle for the souls of the next generation of British men, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Evangelical movement proclaims Him is the only Man who can save our nation – in this world and the next.