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Christianity under attack - Mercury Mailbox

Stephen A Warden, Leicestershire chairman of the Society of St George had the following letter published in the Leicester Mercury on 14th December 2015 . The National Secular Society is making a deal of noise about another report, by the former judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, that is expected to recommend state schools should cease holding Christian assemblies so atheist children are not offended. Other faiths will be allowed to continue to hold religious assemblies should they wish. We Christians are pretty well hardened to the annual relentless calls from atheists and secular societies to curtail any and all religious content in public life. However, to single out English Christians would be against all that is English, fair and just. That would turn us toward those dark days when Christian expression resulted in state punishments. England has been a Christian nation since the late 7th century and has introduced Christ to so many countries that it would unthinkable we would even