ISLE OF MAN-The Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Anglican Church, said "a tacit atheism prevails. Death is assumed to be the end of life."

George Carey, the archbishop, lamented that the British people looked to medicine for eternal life rather than religion-and that the Christian teaching of eternal life has virtually been abandoned. He further said that "many people are acting as if doctors can cure all ills and even postpone death forever" (emphasis added).

The archbishop connects this trend with a general loss of morality in an increasingly secular society. He called for the whole Church of God (ministry and lay people) to restore authentic Christianity to Britain.

But, according to the Scriptures, the loss of authentic Christianity should be laid primarily at the door of the clergy. In the words of our Creator, "Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them" (Ezekiel 22:26; cf. 44:23-24).

Quite an indictment! And it applies to the whole of the Western world-not just the British Isles. ( The Daily Telegraph (London). )