Boris Johnson, the new mayor of London, has claimed that evangelical faith communities are being shunned in modern society.
In an interview with ReligiousIntelligence.com, he said that the good work done by many Christian and evangelical groups is often just ignored and derided. “I think there is a culture now in our society where if something is even vaguely Christian, if there is a whiff of evangelical fervour about it then it’s almost somehow verboten to fund it,” he told the paper at a hustings event in the lead-up to the election.
He continued: “I think that’s quite wrong because if you look at the good that these groups do and you look at the way we’re going to transform society and undo the breakdown that we’ve seen in family life, the growing-up of kids without boundaries and all the rest of the things we’ve been talking about in this campaign, the Christian groups are essential.”
“New London Mayor says evangelicals are being ‘shunned’”
This came as a surprise. I hadn’t known New London had an evangelical mayor. Oh, OK: the new mayor of old London.
A good start! Sounds like the first shot has been fired to begin to turn the tide against the barbarians.
I wouldn’t get too excited about the ‘Evangelical’ in the headline.
What Boris spoke about was ‘evangelical fervour’. In current parlance that has nothing to do with an understanding of doctrinal content. It simply denotes people who rant a bit.
Boris Johnson ‘the most powerful Conservative politician in Britain’ – unbelievable!
Remember that if Margaret Thatcher had her way, London would have no mayor and no council—indeed (if I recall correctly) no self-government above the borough level.
Letting Londoners elect a mayor was—like the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly—yet another vicious dictatorial act of the New Labour Party under Tony Blair.