Christina Odone has written a piece in The Telegraph lamenting the pall of ignorance about the Bible that lies upon the UK. She writes:
Almost a third of children do not know their Adam from their Noah or that David slew Goliah. The Good Samaritan is a stranger and the Nativity just a Christmas play. The latest Bible Society findings prove that the West has erased its Christian heritage from public life. I'm not surprised – only saddened that No God Zone, my e-book on the subject, has been vindicated. After decades of concerted efforts by secularist zealots, the Bible is a truly alien subject. Future generations will look on "the greatest story ever told" and think it is a 1965 movie starring Charlton Heston and Max von Sydow.We know to what she refers. Fifty years ago UK (and NZ) society was fundamentally informed by the moral teachings of Scripture. Marriage was between a man and a woman. Blasphemy was shameful and offensive. Homosexuality was sinful. Swearing truth-telling oaths upon the Bible in court was a serious matter. Abortion was murderous. People generally were familiar with the twenty-third Psalm, the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes. No longer. Now the Bible is just one more book.
