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If we’re no longer a Christian country, what are we?

If we’re no longer a Christian country, what are we?

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Elizabeth Oldfield wrote an article for Prospect, posing the question of what Britain is if it is not a Christian country.
 

'We care if we are no longer a Christian country because we’re changing, but we’re not at all sure what we’re changing into. Our moral, cultural, political, social, and intellectual roots are Christian, but what is growing from them less so. We are not moving (demographically at least) from Christian to secular atheist, but from Christian to a state of deep difference. The already fragile consensus around democracy, liberalism and live-and-let-live good manners has not yet found a way of rooting itself in different soil.'

Read the full article at prospectmagazine.co.uk


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