Christianity ‘being sidelined in Britain’

Monday, 17th November 2008
By Michael Brown

Attempts are now being made in Britain to relegate Christianity to the "border of irrelevance", according to a cathedral chief.

If the attempts succeed it will mean the destruction of "a unique vision of humanity and all that is best in it."

The dire warning comes from the Subdean of Lincoln’s Anglican Cathedral, Canon Alan Nugent. The 66-year-old sets out his fears in a minster chapter letter distributed to members of the cathedral congregation on Sunday.

Canon Nugent, who has been at the once strife-torn cathedral since 2003, says it has been suggested that within 25 years, practising Christians will be excluded from senior posts in both local and national administration --- because of a "widespread" assumption that anyone confessing a robust faith "must be an extremist or irrational or both". the rest