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On the Doxycycline online with next day shipping same day that the nation woke up to the news that Doxycycline online with next day shipping Christopher Hitchens had died our Prime Minister gave a speech in Oxford to celebrate the 400^th anniversary of the King James Bible.

That these two items of news should have Doxycycline online with next day shipping followed on from one another on the BBC 10 o’clock news was striking.

Hitchens in his book God is not great argued that religion poisons everything. For Hitchens religion is Doxycycline online with next day shipping not just wrong it is dangerous and damaging to society.

Cameron’s speech flatly contradicted everything Hitchens stood for when he said:

We are a Christian country. And we should not be afraid to say so.

So who is right?

It is important to read Cameron’s speech in full to understand what he is and isn’t saying.

1. He was NOT saying that Doxycycline online with next day shipping the majority of people in our country are Christians (although we should not entirely disregard the Doxycycline online with next day shipping fact that in the 2001 census 71% of the British population chose to define themselves as Christian). It is Doxycycline online with next day shipping not particularly clear in what sense Cameron regards himself as a Doxycycline online with next day shipping Christian for example.

2. Nor was he saying that Doxycycline online with next day shipping Britain as a Christian country is intolerant of people of other faiths. Quite the Doxycycline online with next day shipping opposite it is Christian countries that have demonstrated a tolerance for Doxycycline online with next day shipping other faiths.

Cameron notes:

Those who Doxycycline online with next day shipping say being a Christian country is doing down other faiths simply don’t understand that Doxycycline online with next day shipping it is easier for people to believe and practise other faiths when Doxycycline online with next day shipping Britain has confidence in its Christian identity.

The tolerance that Doxycycline online with next day shipping Christianity demands of our society provides greater space for other religious faiths too.

That could certainly not be Doxycycline online with next day shipping said of Muslim countries where freedom to convert from Islam to Doxycycline online with next day shipping Christianity is illegal and those who do face severe sanctions.

And although I have Doxycycline online with next day shipping no way of assessing his claim it was striking that Doxycycline online with next day shipping Cameron also said:

Many people tell me it Doxycycline online with next day shipping is much easier to be Jewish or Muslim here in Britain than Doxycycline online with next day shipping it is in a secular country like France.

What was Cameron’s point then?

Essentially it was this:

The Bible has helped to shape the values which define our country. Indeed, as Margaret Thatcher once said, “we are a nation whose ideals are founded on the Bible.”

Responsibility, hard work, charity, compassion, humility, self-sacrifice, love, pride in working for Doxycycline online with next day shipping the common good and honouring the social obligations we have to Doxycycline online with next day shipping one another, to our families and our communities these are the Doxycycline online with next day shipping values we treasure.

Yes, they are Christian values. And we should not be afraid to acknowledge that.

So David Bentley Hart in his work Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its fashionable enemies rightly concludes:

Even the Doxycycline online with next day shipping most ardent secularists among us generally cling to notions of human rights, economic and Doxycycline online with next day shipping social justice, providence for the indigent, legal equality, or basic human dignity that Doxycycline online with next day shipping pre-Christian Western culture would have found not so much foolish as unintelligible. It is Doxycycline online with next day shipping simply the case that we distant children of the pagans would not be Doxycycline online with next day shipping able to believe in any of these things – they would never have occurred to us – had Doxycycline online with next day shipping our ancestors not once believed that God is love, that charity is Doxycycline online with next day shipping the foundation of all virtues, that all of us are equal before the Doxycycline online with next day shipping eyes of God, that to fail to feed the hungry or Doxycycline online with next day shipping care for the suffering is to sin against Christ, and that Doxycycline online with next day shipping Christ laid down his life for the least of his brethren.

It is Doxycycline online with next day shipping very hard to imagine what the world would have looked like without Christianity. The nearest we can Doxycycline online with next day shipping get is by asking how are countries that have long history of Christian faith and Doxycycline online with next day shipping worship different from those that do not.

This post can’t possibly do the Doxycycline online with next day shipping work of establishing that Christianity has had a profound influence for Doxycycline online with next day shipping good that we all benefit from whether we acknowledge that origin or Doxycycline online with next day shipping not. For that you must look elsewhere. Perhaps with Bentley Hart’s book or maybe this one God’s Philosophers: How the Doxycycline online with next day shipping Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam which has been short-listed for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010

How should we respond as Christians to the speech?

At least three things come to mind.

1. David Cameron in his speech gave Christians ‘permission’ to openly acknowledge the Doxycycline online with next day shipping God who has blessed our nation in ways not even we Christians easily remember. It is Doxycycline online with next day shipping often the case that it is those who have emigrated to Doxycycline online with next day shipping our country from other parts of the world who can Doxycycline online with next day shipping see what we take for granted. They rejoice in the Doxycycline online with next day shipping rule of law, freedom of speech, human rights, isn’t it time we thanked God for them too!

2. Christians also have Doxycycline online with next day shipping been given permission by Cameron to challenge Government positions that would seek to Doxycycline online with next day shipping undermine this all to valuable heritage for instance in the proposed attempt to Doxycycline online with next day shipping redefine marriage.

3. The speech was also a Doxycycline online with next day shipping repost to the new atheism which wants to rewrite history by distorting the Doxycycline online with next day shipping contribution of a thousand years of Christianity in our country. Such a Doxycycline online with next day shipping denial of history creates a culture in which scepticism flourishes. Cynic and Doxycycline online with next day shipping doubter alike would do well to be reminded, and we can Doxycycline online with next day shipping help in this, that the life that we enjoy and Doxycycline online with next day shipping celebrate is simply NOT to be found in nations that Doxycycline online with next day shipping are not built on a Christian foundation. There are uniquely Judeo-Christian values and Doxycycline online with next day shipping at least in that sense Britain remains a Christian country.