Hidden agenda

He would have us believe that so-called secularism simply works to ensure that religion (which he has quite a lot to say about) does not interfere in the affairs of state, and vice-versa. The hidden agenda of secular societies is deeper than this, and he very well knows it. In one word, it is a godless one. Yes, they might claim to be sympathetic and tolerant of religious diversity, but certainly not the one that is rooted in absolute truth: and that’s exactly what Biblical Christianity is, absolute truth.

Someone rightly said about secularism that it is ‘an insane form of thinking that invades the human mind, convincing it of its own superiority over God and His Word!’ Masquerading under the humanistic garb of ‘worldly reasoning’ Mr McBay thinks that society can well do without God. Maybe he should try telling that to those who, in one way or another, has been tragically affected in the terrible atrocities that have recently taken place on the streets of London and Manchester. Please don't tell us, Mr McBay, that humanism and secularism are not the same: we are not daft.

You don’t have to be a Christian to appreciate that secularism and humanism, powered by pure reason alone, can never succeed. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian Nobel Prize winner, who witnessed horrifying atrocities in Stalin’s Gulag labour camps, acknowledges that humanism offers no solution at all to mankind’s desperate condition. He once said: “If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature.”

Mr Donald J Morrison

85 Old Edinburgh Road

Inverness

Letter: “Hidden agenda” of secular societies

20 June 2017

Sirs,

In his letter under ‘tolerating intolerance’ I see the worldly wise mouthpiece of the ‘fools’ society’ - 'fool' is the description God gives to those who disbelieve Him – pathetically attempting to assess the ‘religious’ pros and cons of another ‘society’ following the departure of its political leader.

Be assured, Alistair McBay, your rhetoric about the LibDem leader’s so-called ‘tolerant rights and choices’ doesn’t hoodwink anyone. In describing what Tim Farron is allowed, and not allowed, to do within his ‘democratic party’ the only thing that Mr McBay is really doing, in his fight for ‘secular democracy’ is inviting us all to live in a fool’s paradise.