Christian Council of Britain

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The Christian Council of Britain (CCB) is an organisation formed to defend Britain's Christian heritage and national identity from Islam and political correctness. The CCB states that it is "an independent, non-political organisation autonomous of any political party in Britain"; there are, however, frequent unsubstantiated claims that it is connected with the British National Party^{[citation needed]}.

1 Formation and association with the BNP
2 Beliefs
3 Criticism
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Formation and association with the BNP

Taking its name directly in imitation of the Muslim Council of Britain, the Christian Council of Britain was set up by concerned British Christians of various denominations with assistance from members and supporters of the BNP in April 2006. BNP web editor Steve Blake who runs an IT consultancy registered the URL christiancouncil.org.uk on behalf of the CCB and provided a basic template for the fledgling organisation's website. [1] The Observer reported on April 16, 2006 that Clive Potter, another member of the BNP was to be the president of the CCB. [2]. Rev. Robert West, a former Conservative district councillor and a founding member of the Christian Council of Britain defected to the BNP in May 2006 [3].

[edit] Beliefs

Although non-denominational the CCB has adopted reformed protestant Christianity as its official doctrinal basis. It has identified the main challenges to the existence of a Christian national identity to be Islam and political correctness. The CCB is opposed to female ordination and leadership and the ordination of gay men. The Council believes that there is a 'godly importance of race and nation' and 'especially' welcomes white British Christians into membership of the organisation.

[edit] Criticism

The Christian Council of Britain has been criticised by a number of mainstream British Christian organisations who claim that 'Christian belief is incompatible with any political party or philosophy that is based on hatred or treats people as inferior because of their race, beliefs or for any other reason' and argues against the CCB's theological views on separation of races.

However, the CCB avers that it is not founded upon the emotion of hate or the activity of treating people in an inferior way because of race or nation; and is very much against both racial and national misbehaviour. [See Christian Council of Britain website: Press Releases, minutes of formation.]

[edit] See also

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

[edit] External links

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