Cardinal Exposes Frailty of Our Secularist Ways Looking Round, What Is It That We See? A Paradise? Or a Social Abyss?

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WHAT is our national religion in Scotland? And if it is, as three in five of us still declare, "Christian", why should the remarks of Cardinal Keith O'Brien have created a stir? Is he not stating what the majority of Scots feel: that while he tolerated those who lived differently, he must "take a stand when Christianity itself is questioned in this country"?

Now, there are several reasons why his remarks have resonated in the way they have. The first and most obvious is that so wide and so deep has the process of secularisation now gone across not only Scotland but the whole of Europe that it comes as a surprise that he should harbour so great an ambition as to "re-Christianise" Scotland. We have grown long accustomed to the Christian church being in retreat - a process that has often seemed to be eagerly supported by forces within the church itself - that to seek to arrest and reverse it now seems a fantastical romance.

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Cardinal Exposes Frailty of Our Secularist Ways Looking Round, What Is It That We See? A Paradise? Or a Social Abyss?

The second is that it stands in marked contrast to the recent church orthodoxy in Britain that has advocated inclusiveness and a "multi-faith" country in which people of all faiths and of none can get along together and that none should ass...

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