What is claimed to be the world’s first multi-faith facility is being planned, rather appropriately, on land owned by Cornwall Council in the grounds of Penmount Crematorium in Truro, Cornwall’s county town and home to Truro Cathedral.
The Dor Kemmyn Interfaith Centre, according to the Western Morning News, ‘is hoped to serve (sic) the needs of all faith groups, including Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans, Jews, Muslims, Bahais and Christians’. Christians are always last on lists like that.
All that is needed now for the construction of the elliptical facility is a cool £750,000. In the meantime, there will be ‘a contemporary circle of timber posts that maps out the geometry of the building’, which Cornwall Faith Forum, the charity behind the project (Charty number 1147514), are calling ‘Woodhenge’.
Despite such a nod towards paganism, real pagans appear unimpressed by Dor Kemmyn and the Cornwall Faith Forum, with one describing the latter as ‘just playing to the PC brigade.’
Matt Robinson, of Matt Robinson Architecture, is the building designer and a spokesman for the charity. He says ‘the build schedule (depends) on fundraising’.
He continued: “We are trying to do it for people who are curious about faith.
“They may want to find out about Islam or Buddhism so this will act as a library or a resource centre, which can also be used for funerals and weddings.”
So if you want some faith, you can pop along to the Dor Kemmyn centre and choose from those on display.
But all is not quite as Mr Robinson would make it appear. ‘Dor Kemmyn’ is Cornish for ‘Common Ground’, so this is a syncretisitc project in which all religions are basically the same, agreeing in essentials and disagreeing merely in peripheral matters. As they say:
The Dor Kemmyn website carries many quotes, and has a page on what it calls Cornwall’s ‘Spiritual Heritage’ on which we find that Cornwall’s ancient Buddhist heritage dates back as far as the 1970s and that there are no Hindu temples in Cornwall.
Nowhere on the Dor Kemmyn website do we find anything pressing the crown rights or the saving grace of Jesus Christ. And that is surprising, given that the contact for its parent charity, the Cornwall Faith Forum, according to the Charity Commission, is Rev Andrew Yates, of the Truro Diocese Board of Finance, and one of the trustees is the current Bishop of Truro, Rt Rev Tim Thornton, who is standing up for marriage. Dor Kemmyn itself is contacted via Diocesan House, Kenwyn, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1JQ where the contact is Rita Stephen, the Interfaith Development Worker, whose email is given as: info@dorkemmyn.org.uk
Here is a quote, currently on the Dor Kemmyn ‘events’ page, from one Dhirasanta Das, a Hindu: ‘Interfaith centres can provide a space suitable for multi-religious education and its practices. This will help check the imbalance of values in life, achieve real unity within the community and peace throughout the world.’
No it won’t. The Bible says that peace is only found in the Lord Jesus, who said (John 14:27) ‘Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid’. The same Lord Jesus told us that there will be ‘wars and rumours of wars’.
The Dor Kemmyn website says: ‘Recent events in Cornwall including vandalism, graffiti etc have also indicated that a centre such as this is needed to help support the community in addressing potential conflict through dialogue rather than through violence’. ‘To help support the community’? What does that mean?
It might be argued that those committing acts of vandalism need to be brought before the courts, that the need for the Dor Kemmyn centre, and the interim ‘Woodhenge’, is just as alive as those going into the incinerators of the neighbouring Penmount Crematorium.
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The vandalism and graffiti mentioned on the Dor Kemmyn website refers to a chapel bought by this group a few years ago. The chapel, which was opened as a “multi faith” centre, has on more than one occasion suffered from graffiti on its walls, and soon after purchase had a pig’s head nailed to the door. The more recent outbreak of graffiti was reported in the local paper, where the building was described as an “Islamic centre”. It’s perhaps not too far-fetched to conclude that, once the new building is finished, there will be no more pretence that it is a multifaith centre.
Let me understand this… They opened a multi-faith chapel, it was attacked with graffiti, and now there is a need for a bigger chapel to ‘help support the community in addressing potential conflict through dialogue rather than through violence’ where ‘the community’ is themselves? A bit like the provocative ‘Do not throw stones at this notice’? If I have indeed understood it correctly, then the best way to reduce potential conflict will be to scrap plans for Dor Kemmyn and close the existing chapel, will it not?
I do not think real Christians will have anything to do with it. They are aware of not mixing Gods word with other things (wool) and prefer the pure linen. There is never unity in diversity thats a fact. People need to wake up to that fact. I am so sad that this is now penetrating over the Tamar Bridge to Cornwall. A place I thought was far away from the maddening crowd. Also I would like to suggest that those who thought of the idea would have known this or maybe have not made an effort to understand Christianity.
However the bible speaks of an end time mix of religions taking place as a sign of the times, so once again any Christian who knows their bible will have nothing to do with it. This would never happen abroad would it? In a Muslim country for instance. When are the British going to wake up, our Nation is being stripped naked and we do nothing.
I think this just shows the signs of the times in which we are living, i.e. the last days! Deception is rife and because the vast numbers of ‘Christians’ are not ‘born again’ (knowing the Word of God) they will be deceived. Satan is the master deceiver and we know from scripture that in the last days there will be a counterfeit apostate church (ecumenical) and many who profess to love Jesus will be sucked into building this apostasy. The false prophet and the antichrist will ultimately head up this system. We who love Jesus must be largely in the prayer closet, only doing what the Lord is telling us to do, praying without ceasing and being led hourly and daily by the Holy Spirit. Its all about a relationship with Jesus and individual sanctification (Luke 13:23-27). Also to be praying for our deceived brothers and sisters in Jesus to come out of this false Babylonian system (Revelation 18:4). This Babylonian deception is not just the Roman Catholic system but all false cults and isms! Jesus said ‘I will build My church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it’ . Elijah thought he was the only one but he discovered there were many others who had not bowed the knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18). I believe, in these days, the Lord is linking up the true church (ekklesia) to preach the true Gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. In essence we are in between unbelievers and the apostasy. Many false prophets are leading congregations, sadly, and leading the people astray. Many leaders, of different denominations, are freemasons and ulluminati. The wheat and tares are growing together and its not up to us to separate them, the angels will do that at the harvest time. Our responsibility is to speak the Truth in love as best we know how!
We as Christians can not afford to let our guard down. The various anti Christian forces in this country are obviously joining forces under all kinds of pretexts. We followers of Christ must not sleep at any time. I pray that the Christian church in Britain will awaken from its deep inertia and confront the forces of anti Christ which which are seeking its downfall.
Well we have been warned that great apostacy will happen in the end times which we are now in.
Having a centre like this will separate the wheat from the chaff. Real Christians will have nothing to do with this at all. Mind you they could stand outside and witness to them that ‘there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved’.
No man cometh unto the father but by me. John 14 v 6 He rose again!! all the rest, dead as a door nail. Amen and amen
‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.There is no other way to Salvation except through Me’. Yes, I noticed that Christians were mentioned last in the multifaith list associated with this project in cornwall. Clearly the Diosese of Cornwall is a leading advocate of the Hand wringing Equallity Brigade and if it has put it’s name behind such a project this is typical of modern church thinking although to tru believers it is a disgrace..
Or are they? Perhaps it’s a surrepticious evangelistic endeavour…
Cornwall may be at the end of the country, but it is a centre and instigator of a lot of apostasy; the Cornwall Churches Together movement has sucked in many of the local churches and Christian organisations and is allied through association with Dor Kemmyn and just about every other false doctrine that is doing the rounds in these days, the Cornwall Prayer Initiative has for many years encouraged ecumenical prayer, compromising the truth and lured many with its false promise of revival through “unity”.
(For e.g’s. see: http://www.kingdomvision.co.uk/ – which appears to be the focal point for all this).
British Israelism has a strong following in Cornwall and many local Christians don’t realise they have imbibed some of their teachings – because they like the idea of Jesus coming to Cornwall!
I have been warning about this stuff for years (see my website: http://www.spreadthetruth.co.uk).
I first heard of Dor Kemmyn in 2010 when a local Methodist lay preacher was giving out its leaflets.
The Anglican Diocese based in Truro appears to be controlled by Freemasons (the cathedral’s foundation stone was laid with a masonic ritual in 1880 by the Prince of Wales: http://www.falmouth.packet.archives.dial.pipex.com/id188.htm), so no-one should expect anything holy and good to come from there! Sadly many Christians in Cornwall are being deluded by all this stuff and need to be warned and to know that there are some of us here who are not going along with it.
Thank you Stephen for making this known nationally.
Hi Paul. I agree with you.
Maybe this won’t be as bad as one thinks. For many years I have been familiar with the multi-faith chapel at Stansted Airport, and it doesn’t seem to have been a problem. Apparently Gatwick also has a multi-faith chapel “for people of all faiths to use for worship and meditation.” This boils down to people who are scared about flying. I don’t see any harm in it. You couldn’t have a dozen different chapels for them.
If Jesus was to place a comment here, What would he say.
I suspect that the word “Love” would be used more than it has been in the above comments.
Well, we have one certain comment from Jesus about those who reject his rule:
Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
You may need to add some balance to your one-dimensional view of the Lord Jesus, Cartwheel!
Thank you. Cartwheel.
I am not going to start a proof texting war with others on this site, but the scriptures need to be interpreted in the light that God is Love, and Jesus in his love, mercy, justness and compassion is the image of the invisible God.
If we are to get all literal about every bible verse then we may as well go the whole hog and start smashing the heads of pagan children against the rocks in good old Israelite fashion – and claim that God approves.
Perfect love casts out fear … A little more l
No, Jonathan, the scriptures do not need to be forced into the sort of love-god grid you propose. They need to be read, studied and prayed over with a heart which wants to know the complete mind of God, not some mawkish easy-going one-dimensional version. The same Apostle John who wrote the most about God being love also recorded the Revelation granted to him, a revelation of judgment. Taking a sideways look, if God were not a God of judgment, would he still be a God of love?
Alice Bailey believes the Christian church will help bring about the New Age.
“The goal of the New Age Movement has consistently been to bring in the Age of Aquarius when all will recognize ‘the God within themselves.’ A major step towards this in the words of the New Age prophetess Alice Bailey, is ‘the regeneration of the churches.’
Her vision was that… ‘The Christian church in its many branches can serve as a St. John the Baptist, as a voice crying in the wilderness, and as a nucleus through which world illumination may be accomplished.’
In a word, she desired the time when the ‘Christian churches’ would embrace the New Age concepts of illumination and self-realization.
“The New Age plan to bring in world peace cannot fully establish the Golden Age of Aquarius until Biblical Christianity is outlawed or destroyed.” — Richard Bennett, Can Mysticism Lead To God
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/alicebailey.htm
Mic 6:8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
… Not much evidence of love of mercy or humble walk here, I fear. I wonder what our Lord would say about loving God and neighbour in the context of this article.
Would a ‘pagan’ reading your comments be attracted to Jesus, my dear ‘evangelical’ brothers and sisters ?
The Lord Jesus attracted people to him because he worked miracles with compassion and told them the truth with authority.
There is a misconception in some circles that loving our neighbour means going along with his sinful and destructive behaviour.
Au contraire, Rodney. Love involves challenging and reproving our neighbour:
Lev 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Zech 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Here is a bit more of the context of that quote from the Prophet Micah (‘the LORD’ is the KJV rendering of the name of the Almighty, YHWH):
Mic 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Mic 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Mic 6:9 The LORD’S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Mic 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Mic 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Mic 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Mic 6:13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Mic 6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
Mic 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Mic 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
There is not much cheer there for the present-day multi-faith descendants of Omri and Ahab, and we need to warn them, IMHO. If we can do that graciously and with compassion and authority, all the better. Then again, God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble, and humility does not appear to be displayed in setting up a centre where rivals of YHWH may be worshiped or introduced.