VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Canon Dr Alan Billings, an Anglican priest in Sheffield  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 2 out of 5 (A little platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130401.html][img=images/2013/04/pic130401.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Lord Carey's been complaining that Christians are being [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21979034]persecuted by the PM[/url]. In his view, the PM supports gay marriage and is therefore an aggressive secularist. 

Lord Carey is right to point out that there has been aggressive secularism in this country. Aggressive secularists have been aggressively promoting freedom under the law regardless of religious beliefs, and they've been doing it aggressively.

Meanwhile, in many Muslim countries, Christians are praying for some aggressive secularists to promote freedom under the law regardless of religious beliefs. They have more to fear from democratically elected Islamist governments than from the dictators they replace. 

Christians feel persecuted in this country because people don't automatically do what we tell them to any more. This is despite the fact that we Christians built this country, giving it Christian laws and Christian values, which are so much better than everyone else's laws and values.

We just need to get used to the fact that we're not top religion any more. Some people even seem to get by without any religion at all. This is called plurality. Even within the Church of England there are some people who want it to be more gay and women friendly than others. So we have to deal with plurality whether we like it or not. Eventually, we'll catch up with the rest of society so that we can give it a moral lead again.

Regardless of all that, just remember, we own Easter.

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