Polygamy is next as we slide into the post-Christian swamp
by Laura Perrins, The Conservative Woman:
Christian Guy, who was formerly David Cameron’s special adviser on poverty, tweeted out a question that has generated some debate. It was: Someone I met earlier asked a great question: which common attitudes/traits in Britain today will be considered outrageous in 150 years’ time?
What we (or at least I) are talking about here, is what laws or customs will be considered morally outrageous in 150 years’ time? I tweeted in reply that this depends entirely on whether the West collapses into a post-Christian nightmare, or whether somehow it stumbles on and maintains its Christian foundations so that they still influence law and custom.
People often point to slavery as something that was widespread and now think of as morally abhorrent. But we should remember slavery was the historical norm, and is still widespread in some parts of the world.
Slavery was abolished due to Christian crusaders, Wilberforce being the most obvious. There was nothing inevitable about its abolition, nothing whatsoever. Wilberforce pushed Britain to abolish the international slave trade even when Britain controlled the seas, and would have continued to benefit enormously from the trade. It was Wilberforce’s Christianity that motivated him on this decades-long crusade.
So I am going to be brief and split it into whether Britain and most likely Europe becomes a post-Christian hellhole or its Christian foundations hold.
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