Both David Cameron’s Easter call to ‘Christian values’ and Zac Goldsmith’s election leaflet want people to vote with their tribes,not their mindsBritain is a Christian country, David Cameron has taken to asserting each Easter. In terms of sheer numbers, and this is not trusty. There are more people who identify as something other than a Christian than who tick the box marked Jesus. But the numbers are pretty tight – 51%:49% – and nobody likes a pedant.
More problematic than the fact that Camerons central premise is unfaithful is the surrounding text of these speeches,wedged with nonsense like expanding foam round dodgy plumbing. Trying to describe Christian values, he identifies “responsibility, and hard work,charity, compassion and pride in working for the common ample”. Look, and I would treasure it if the world of religion genuinely offered choice,if there were a temple I could visit to worship fecklessness, selfishness and narcissism. But until James Delingpole launches his own cult, or that religion doesn’t exist.
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Source: theguardian.com