"We are still living in some kind of Christian country, albeit surrounded by millions of non-believers"

Last year I attended the funeral of a long-standing colleague and friend, at which another retired colleague, a once professed atheist, sitting next to me, sang mightily through every verse of ther hymn, For All the Saints.

Last week, however, it was his turn to join the choir eternal.

Had he experienced a late conversion? Definitely not, said his widow, despite the local vicar giving a eulogy.

What further proof is needed, that, as Superspoon Cameron insists, we are still living in some kind of Christian country, albeit surrounded by millions of non-believers.

Even former home secretary Jack Straw, himself a Jew, has told British Muslims that they must accept that Britain is built on Christian values.

That's certainly true historically and socially.

Folk may be forsaking congregations in droves, except at cathedrals, where most go for the music, not the prayers or preaching.

But what trendy so-called intellectual atheists, of the type who wrote in protest at David Cameron's comments, too readily forget to consider is the purpose, rather than the facts of life.

Their existence is all statistics and no spirituality. Anything they can't experience or see is false until proven (so much for x-rays, electricity etc).

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