Tony Blair: Disaster beckons for world without faith

"We don't do God," his spokesman, Alastair Campbell, insisted while he was Prime Minister. But since leaving office, Tony Blair has converted to Roman Catholicism, launched a faith foundation and yesterday gave his strongest endorsement of the church yet.

Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Holy Trinity Brompton Church, Mr Blair warned that a world without faith would be on a path towards "tragedy and disaster". He explained how his "journey of faith" began in choir school in County Durham at the age of 10 after his father Leo, a "convinced atheist", had suffered a serious stroke.

"The headmaster of the school called me into his study and he said 'I think we should kneel and say a prayer for your father'," said Mr Blair. "I said to him, 'I should tell you my father does not really believe in God'. I will never forget what he said to me – he just said to me 'but God believes in him, so let us kneel and pray'. That made a big impact on me."

Mr Blair has repeatedly come under criticism for his personal beliefs which were a continual source of anguish during his time in office. Reflecting on it last year, he said he was "too sensitive or too cautious", arriving at the conclusion that "if I started talking about religion, it was going to be difficult".

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Unfortunately Mr.Blair has been deceived as far as we can tell for now. Deceived by embracing a different God, different "gospel" , different view of man, different view of justification of a sinner, different view of sanctification of a believer than the one pronounced and announced by Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory and His apostles. In embracing Roman Catholicism and promoting it Mr.Blair one more has become Mr.bLiar.
- Linda Heinkel
  
  Not sure I understand this. Are Roman Catholics not considered Christian?
  - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
    
    More precisely Roman Catholic official doctrine and teachings is not Christian and only those who are following it completely by the same token are not Christians at all. There are many very important reasons for this distinction.
    The primary one is different gospel presented by Roman religion with a different core of how sinner is justified before Holy God that the one presented in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You can read serious analysis of those massive differences here:
    
    "Justification – The Contrast Between the Biblical Teaching and Roman Catholicism" By William Webster
    LINK: http://www.christiantruth.com/articles/justificat…
    
    There is a plethora of other issues showing the apostate state of Roman Religion which general overview only is aptly presented here:
    
    "Roman Catholicism " By Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
    LINK – http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=lloy…
  - Tout
    
    to HEINKEL L.: There were only Christians(later called Roman Catholics) Then a pastor protested, made his own church (Protestants). An other rejected Catholics and the first Protestan church, made his own second Protestant church.. Then another rejected the Catholics and those 2 protestants, made his own3rd Protestant church. Then a 4th Protestant Church; an so on that now, there are how many, hundreds Protestant Churches. You can freely choose and keep changing Protestant Churches. Or learn about the original Church started by Christ and given to His apostle Peter; and to the Popes, always the same DOCTRINES (no Pope can change a Doctrine e.g. one doctrine says Mary is mother and virgin.).There are also the DISCIPLINES that we must obey, but those can be changed.(e.g. eat no meat on Friday). Learning about God's ONE, ROMAN,CATHOLIC,APOSTOLIC Church is worth the time. Too bad, since 1963,some bishops have taken some forbidden freedoms. One sure, proper source is the FEDERATION SACERDOTALE SAINT PETER. Those priests are always dressed as priests. Am I allowed to give an address: ?
    - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
      
      You need to educate yourself about your Roman church beyond the pamphlets you have been fed with by your priests or spin doctors of Rome. Perhaps then you would learn about development and contradictions of your Roman teachings unheard in early church and for hundreds of years or thousand plus years after. You would then know about two or three simultaneous popes each with his own pretense to "apostolic succession" and sending the other two or one with his clergy straight to hell. You would also know that your papacy is a complete fraud and a scam build on proven fallacious documents like the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals or pseudo Donation of Constantine. You would also know what pornocracy of popes was and its implications. As it is you are completely ignorant and oblivious to those things and to the fact that you are led to spiritual slaughter having believed in false gospel of Rome that does not save but damns only.
Evermyrtle

Tony, I agree that it is possible to be a Christian and a Catholic, BUT "that will be a hard row to hoe!" May GOD bless as you struggle along and hopefully "You will come out of her!"
red nig

Europe is definitely post-secularist. As more comes out about humanism, it's lack of humanity, it's morbid outlook on life and how its slaughtered without conscience hundreds of millions in the 20th Century alone, people are running from it to any religion, then looking again at Christianity. On Catholsism, Mr. Bair, while I have reasons to distrust the church, better there than nowhere, sir. And, nowhere was where Europe had heading under secular humanism as they sank into the abyss of hopelessness, drugs, and disease.
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  Nope, it is not "better there than nowhere" for being i a lie and apostasy (assuming that Blair believes as Rome teaches as many Catholics do not and in various degrees in various teachings) is exactly being in "nowhere"…
aceituna

The best statement in the article I see is where Mr. Blair when the headmaster suggested that they pray for his father, and Mr. Blair answered that "my father does not believe in God." Then the headmaster countered "but God believes in him". That is the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  So God needs to "believe" in something?
  - nctar
    
    If He didn't believe in His creation would He have done so?
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      So He needed to believe in his creation to assure Himself to create it? Hmmm, that is one insecure "God" then…
bonniewheeler

I believe thowe who believe and accept Christ and obey his commandment Christian. Christanity is not a denomination – it's a relationship with Christ
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  Could you please provide a biblical reference for us for BOTH? I mean both of this mentioned by you "accept Christ" and "relationship with Christ"? Please do. I am serious. Since you provide those two as qualifiers for the true faith then they surely must be in the Scriptures. Thank you.
Tout

DESPEVILLE if You are serious, did You read about any miracles that happened in the last 100 years ?
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  Did you read anything about Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals, pseudo Donation of Constantine or pornocracy of popes?
  Do that while you still have time to learn…
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville

Can you actually say anything factual from the history of church or Bible to support your false religion of works?
You know nothing of those things. You do not even know your Roman heretic popes excommunicated from your church by your other popes… but you will presume to make your assertions and in complete ignorance too.