by Campbell Campbell-Jack, TCW
IN THE terms used by the media, and therefore by the mass of the people, I am what is called a ‘fundamentalist Christian’. This is how they describe people like myself, fairly bog-standard evangelicals who believe the Bible is true and that we should do what it says. This is just another insult from the secularists who love little more than displaying their theological ignorance.
It is when I say that I think that society would be better if we followed the Bible and that our faith should affect the ‘public square’ that the trouble really begins. That, in the sloppiest of definitions beloved by the secularist media, makes me a Christian nationalist. That means a very bad person indeed; and yet all people like me wish to do is return Europe to its roots.
When Trump castigates Europe for its cultural decline, he is right. For decades Europe has slowly, but now with increasing rapidity, been committing suicide. The people of the continent have lost all sense of who and what they are. Europe has forgotten its past, and any sense of connection to it, and as a result has lost its identity and its reason for being. The future is precarious at best.
If it is to be any more than a land mass, a geographical feature with an undifferentiated population, the various countries of Europe must recover and reintegrate their Christian heritage. This is why we in the UK, and other European countries, have to use every political and legal means we can to fight the destruction of our society. But we must recognise that the core of the struggle is not legal but cultural.