Loss of religion

Secularists, sparse in numbers but loud in noise, will rejoice at the idea of religious representatives being removed from education committees.

This is a further step in the de-christianisation of Scotland, so naturally the militant atheist lobby will welcome the proposal.

However, rather as Edin- burgh increasingly trades worthwhile architecture for soulless futuristic designs, Scotland has everything to lose by jettisoning its Christian tradition. The worthwhile aspects and traditions of the past are often junked, like Victorian fireplaces in the supposedly enlightened 1960s. China and North Korea still persecute Christians, just as the pagan-influenced Nazi Party once did.

To many in Europe and Asia, the secular and materialist promises of Marxism and Fascism long ago seemed to hansel a happily Godless future. History disappointed people’s faith in those cruel ideologies, however. Modern secularism will disappoint its proponents too. Far more importantly, it will deprive Scots of their birthright over 2,000 years. Will Scotland’s civil society junk our proud and remarkable Christian history?

One wonders if Columba, Ninian, Thomas Chalmers and Jane Haining are already weeping about Scotland’s spiritual decline from somewhere in the celestial clouds.

GUS LOGAN York Road, North Berwick