Peter Hitchens: “Britain no longer exists”
Our nation is on its knees to the Church of Human Rights
By Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday | January 20, 2013
‘…These supposed rights have expelled and replaced Christianity. They have shrunk the human conscience and vastly increased the power of the State….
‘…Speak out and you lose your job, with little hope of ever getting another…’
So my comment is that it makes sense to have doubts about institutions, to recognize their errors and how they’re used by those in power. But if you just let it all be thrown away – the baby with the bath water – the good with the bad – then who is giving us our new belief system and how destructive are the ideas they are pushing on us to replace the old system? The new “God” becomes an authoritarian system of rule by human beings.
Also a section on World War I: The Great War: A bloodbath we should never have waded into
…The methods of both sides – from poison gas and the bombing of homes, to the deliberate starvation of civilians through blockade – were barbaric….