[Trikaduliana]

Hi John

There was an interview on Radio 2 this lunchtime with someone who sounded like they were from the Secular Society. She wanted all public expression of religion banned as 'silly beliefs' and said that children should not be subject to any form of religious indoctrination until they were old enough to make up their own minds (that it was nonsense!, I guess).

Since secularism is as much a religion as far as I am concerned as any other, it was clear that what she was demanding was the clearance of the public domain so that only her religion was permitted.

As usual she blamed all wars and ills of the world on religion, and quoted vague statistics that showed that religious societies were more violent and had higher levels of social disfunction than non-religous ones.

But as I post elsewhere. Christianity does have to repent of some of its past history, and I am convinced that this woman was not evil, just deluded. She needs to find Christ as much as I do. But perhaps no really attractive and grace-filled examples of Christians have ever been close to her.

How much of the anti-Christian mood is down to our own failures? If Christian discourse is denied a place in the public domain then is that because much Christian discourse is not very Christian and not very filled with the life of Christ? How much are we to blame for that?

Peter