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Huffington Post: The slow, whining death of British Christianity

By Alliance Alert

Johann Hari writing at The Huffington Post: "For centuries, religion was insulated from criticism in Britain. First its opponents were burned, then jailed, then shunned. But once there was a free marketplace of ideas, once people could finally hear both the religious arguments and the rationalist criticisms of them, the religious lost the British people. Their case was too weak, their opposition to divorce and abortion and gay people too cruel, their evidence for their claims non-existent. Once they had to rely on persuasion rather than intimidation, the story of British Christianity came to an end."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).