England today accounts for just 0.62 percent of the world’s population — a mere 57 million people out of more than eight billion. On paper, that number seems insignificant. Yet England’s influence on law, liberty, and civilization is staggering. The current crisis there, marked by cultural amnesia and self-destructive policies, matters far beyond the shores of the British Isles.
A Disproportionate Legacy
Douglas Murray, reflecting on Israel’s struggle for survival after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, observed that though Israel is only 0.2 percent of humanity, its loss would be irreplaceable. Its contributions in literature, law, and conscience are not measured by population but by significance. The same truth applies to England.
To erase Christian Britain is not to move forward but to regress — to a pre-Christian world where might makes right.
Thomas Sowell, in Race and Culture (1994), pointed out that the English, as an island people and a transatlantic bridge to North America, created a culture rarely equaled and arguably never surpassed. From parliamentary government to modern science, from Shakespeare to the King James Bible, the English bequeathed a patrimony that shaped nations across the world.
Yet today, England’s way of life is imperiled. Ideological “wokeism,” policies that enable illegal migration, and a growing hostility toward Christianity are eroding her very foundations.
What England Gave the World
At Runnymede in 1215, King John sealed Magna Carta, embedding biblical principles of covenant and justice into the law. This event birthed English common law — the legal system that would become the basis for constitutional government on multiple continents. It was, in many ways, the outworking of applied theology.
As historian Tom Holland demonstrates in Dominion (2019), ideas we take for granted — human rights, freedom, even concern for the poor and the environment — did not emerge in a vacuum. They were nurtured by Christianity, often carried by the English-speaking peoples.
Consider also England’s model of Christian nationhood. Nationalism has been cast in a negative light in recent years, but in England it often meant liberty under law. Christian influence shaped civic life in such a way that even non-Christians found room for self-expression. When rooted in Christ, national identity yielded tolerance, not tyranny.
Even the British Empire, though not without flaws, bore marks of Christian benevolence. Missionary statesmen such as William Carey and David Livingstone represented an impulse to educate, to heal, and to govern justly. Unlike empires built solely on conquest, the English sought to leave behind schools, institutions, and enduring frameworks for human flourishing.
What We Stand to Lose
If England succumbs to the forces of secular socialism and cultural dissolution, the loss will not be confined to her borders. The entire Anglosphere — America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland — rests upon English foundations. Nations in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, touched by English governance, would also feel the collapse.
America, often described as an extension of the British experiment, still carries forward England’s legacy of ordered liberty. Yet America, too, is wrestling with many of the same destructive currents. If England falls, the tremor will be felt here.
A Call to Remember
History demonstrates that less than one percent of humanity has produced ideals that lifted countless millions. England’s legacy was rooted in Scripture, validated by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and confirmed by natural law. The apostle Paul declared, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor. 3:17). England, more than most nations, embodied this truth.
Today’s British leadership, under Prime Minister Keir Starmer (2024–), speaks the language of “human rights” but severs those rights from their biblical foundation. Without Christianity, human rights become abstractions easily manipulated by ideology.
That is why the present struggle in England is so important. To erase Christian Britain is not to move forward but to regress — to a pre-Christian world where might makes right, and liberty is the privilege of the powerful.
England’s 0.62 Percent
England matters because her 0.62 percent has always mattered more than numbers suggest. She has been a light to the nations. To extinguish that light now would not only diminish England but darken the world.
The question is whether England will rise again — whether the people of that green and ancient land will remember who they are, and what they have given, not only to themselves but to us all.
For if England falls, we will all feel the loss.
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