Recently attended a hustings meeting for the Euro Election candidates hosted by St Michael in the Northgate, Oxford. I was bemused by the presence of 'The Christian Party'. It's fairly obvious, I'd have thought, that Christians have a very wide range of political opinions - far too wide to corral into a single functional manifesto. The British National Party seem fairly sure that Jesus would vote for them . . .
Should I take it that they are unaware of this, and think Christianity is only the limited Christianity they know? Their candidate didn't seem to see this as a problem, and focussed not on policies but on values. But I'd be hard pressed to distinguish between the values he articulated and the values articulated by several other candidates - although to be fair to him, he articulated them much better. The unique 'selling point' must, then, be something to do with religion.
So what's their policy on faith schools? Turkey's accession to the EU? Community cohesion in a society comprising many religious groups?
I'm left confused. I can see a point in having a cross-party Christian caucus in the Parliament where Christians can argue it out using Christian language and concepts; but not a Christian Party.
See what you make of it : http://www.votechristian.info/
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