Warning against secularism 17/5/14
Sir,
Many Scots will be both disappointed and concerned at comments made by Mr Alistair
McBay of the National Secular Society in his letter (16/5/14) on the subject of the
place of religion in a future independent Scotland. His comments are relevant to
the present non-
What irks Mr McBay is the fact that a nation should include a religious belief and commitment in its constitution. Since the Reformation this has been done in Scotland and England (and subsequently in the United Kingdom) with respect to Protestant Christianity which has been the basis of our laws and liberties until now.
According to what logic does Mr McBay consider it wrong to enshrine biblical Christianity in our country’s constitution and yet right to embed the beliefs of his own secularist faith at the nation’s heart? Can he point to the lasting benefits which a wholehearted allegiance to secularism (for which read national atheism) has brought to any people in terms of education, freedom, health, prosperity and welfare generally? And if he is determined that we should abandon the moral law of God what sense will the ideas of ‘justice’ and ‘fairness’ of which he writes then possess? They become floating concepts meaning whatever people or politicians want them to mean.
It becomes rather obvious what path Mr McBay has in mind for our national direction
of travel when he refers to the recent same-
If Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom are to be truly forward-
The Bible warns us against secularism with these solemn words: “The nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish” (Isaiah 60:12). At the same time it gives us this encouraging promise: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD” (Psalm 33:12).