Comments by "janburn007" (@janburn007) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. Earlier this year - around June I think - Calvin Robinson was ordained as a Deacon in the Free Church of England, & Calvin is wearing the standard clergy attire. As a Deacon in the church, he may be addressed as "Reverend". After spending about 12 months as a "Deacon" - which is like the "practical" part of training for the priesthood in the church, a Deacon is normally then ordained as a full priest, & in high church circles may also be addressed as "Father" (which he usually cannot be called whilst still just a Deacon). There is little difference in the standard clergy attire for Deacons & Priests, except when wearing actual church vestments during a church service.
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  2. Thanks for this excellent documentary on the very sad & sorry state of classroom education in the UK. I had no idea it was in quite such a bad way & was going down the gurgler so very fast. I guess the key message here is that unless you want your children to be taught all this complete & utter nonsense - the only real way out of it is to home school your own children, & teach them the values that you want them to have. It's so very sad that the British educational system has come to this, & continues to go downhill so fast.
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  3. I was so disappointed to learn that the Church of England was no longer going to ordain Calvin Robinson as a deacon/priest. I believe he could have been such a great asset to the church with his pre-existing high profile as a commentator in the media - & being able to use that, on occasions, to the benefit of the church. Despite the church having in recent years "gone woke" - if they had been hoping that just going along with the societal trends of the day, would actually "put more bums on seats" in the church pews - then "going woke" has certainly been an abject failure in that regard - because it's done nothing to prevent the tide of people leaving the church. In fact, in my personal opinion, it has probably been THE cause of many more people leaving the church. I don't think many people like going to church & being preached to about highly political issues, on which they have probably already formed their own views. So I think it's high time that the church "woke up from its wokeness" so to speak, & got back to basics with traditional Christian teachings & values. And having an ordained priest like Calvin Robinson could have been of great assistance in doing that. I think there most definitely needs to be a movement against "wokeness" in our society. While, being a minority in our society - they are definitely more vocal than the "silent majority". Originally, I suppose, in the interests of "tolerance & diversity" - they were obviously allowed to have their say - but then they have been allowed to completely overtake the debate, to the point where those of the majority viewpoint who are more vocal, are now being completely banned/blocked/cancelled/silenced, by the minority view. Maybe there needs to be a campaign to encourage everyone to "wake up from woke" & "snap out of it" so to speak. Wouldn't it be funny if there were to be a street protest called "walk against woke", or some people started up a movement/political party called "BAMEs against WOKE" & it gained a lot of followers & traction? Now that would be a real "slap in the face" (figuratively speaking) for the woke campaigners - with the people they think they are helping, actually combining to campaign against them! I've always said that the woke movement are either just zombies, or people walking in their sleep - who don't make much sense at all, let alone being a destructive & divisive force in our present society. And if that's the case, they need to be put back to sleep, & never awoken again. I do think it would probably help to put "wokeness" in its place - if some of the non-white people who've been in effect cancelled by the woke brigade & the pressure they've often brought to bear to cause people to lose their jobs etc, for not going along with the woke beliefs - were to pursue court cases against such wokeness, & have those court cases succeed, in effect, ruling against wokeness. Such cases would need to be given the huge publicity that they deserve. Wokeness is actually causing more racial divisiveness than previously existed. When non-white people stand up & state that Britain is not an institutionally racist country (which can now be backed up by a reputable report) & get howled down by white people proclaiming that it IS institutionally racist (not supported by any reputable report) - it sometimes makes me wonder whether woke people are actually promoting & becoming racist - just to prove their own point that Britain is institutionally racist! Such behaviour would not surprise me in the slightest - because the woke brigade are obviously not going to accept the outcome of any reputable report stating that Britain is not institutionally racist - they will be determined to MAKE it so, one way or another, through their very own behaviour, if such racism does not already exist. And it's a shame that the established church wished to be a part of such activity. I already know a number of non-white people who do not support the woke brigade - people whom I've known for many years - since my university days living in a residential college along with people of various non-white ethnicities. One of those people, with whom I occasionally still have discussions about current issues - says he has never felt discriminated against in this country since arriving here for university studies many years ago. He acknowledges there will always exist the genuinely racist "crackpots" as he put it. He said before he left his own country to come to this country - people had actually warned him that he would probably be discriminated against. But he was very pleasantly surprised to discover that he experienced no genuine racism at all, in his new country. In fact, looking back, he said he actually experienced more discrimination based on race etc, in his former country, & he indicated that as a result of that racism, had he remained in his former country, he would never have had as many opportunities to succeed, as he has had in this country..
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