So Christianity, in Derbyshire’s secularist view, through the welfare state, multiculturalism, low birth rates, open society and borders, is the true enabler of Islamic terror, not leftist secularism? Perhaps there is a tad of truth there.
Perhaps there is more truth in saying that a weakened, hopelessly emasculated form of Christianity that barely preserves only a form of it, while denying the principle doctrines it was founded upon is more to blame. True Christianity has always combined, for example, compassion combined with responsibility -the classic compassionate conservative, as opposed to the welfare state. An understanding of the sin nature, as orthodox Christianity upholds, leads to a more realistic understanding of the need for law and order and self-defense. True Christianity, while respecting differing cultures, has never equivocated on the supremacy of the Biblical worldview over others and hence the Judeo-Christian culture of liberal democracy and human rights. And low birth rates due to the disintigration of marriage, abortions, encouragement of ‘alternate lifestyles’…orthodox Christianity’s fault?
What Derbyshire and his co-antireligionists like Hitchens should do is, either encourage the return of orthodoxy Christianity to the West, or wholly stay out of areas where they are inherently incapacitated through their secularist bias to understand of even consider.
