Rationality & Christianity: Mutually Exclusive?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Such nonsense! And bizzare coming from you. This has been a very devout christian country, and a radical and revolutionary religious country.

Religion hasn't really been taken seriously in the UK since the ascension of Queen Victoria. It was taken seriously by people in the colonies, to be sure, but that's why those people went out to the colonies.

The move to secular humanism has been dramatic in the last 100 years - but that's something that you have always been against.

Secular Humanism is an invention of the last few decades, but Humanists have always tended to be secular. Christian and Islamic Humanists frequently had more in common with each other than with the tradionalists and fundamentalists in their own camp.

I suppose, as a religious man, you shouldn't be expected to be rational.

That's rather like me say that, as an atheist, you shouldn't be expected to be kind.

Isn't it?