When a group of Atheists and Secularists write to the Sunday
Telegraph decrying the Prime Minister’s comments that we are a Christian
country, they are ignoring history. There is no doubt we are a Christian country.
Our democracy, our schools, our hospitals - even our Trades Unions - have a Christian
foundation. Without the faith of our forefathers, we would not be the nation we
are.
Today the UK is multicultural with many minority faiths. But
this doesn’t take away for one moment the foundations we stand on. We are a Christian
nation and my prayer is that as a nation we will once again embrace a living
faith and always appreciate the incredible debt we owe to the Christian pioneers
that have gone before us.