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Denham’s misplaced ‘faith group’ faith
John Denham pours scorn on UK secularists with his plans for an advisory body which represents less than 10% of the population
AC Grayling
guardian.co.uk,
Monday 16 November 2009 14.00 GMT
John Denham, our government’s minister for communities, is going to have an advisory body made up of representatives of “faith” groups, further eroding the de facto secularism that has kept our society relatively stable and collegial, at least until recently. He pours scorn on secularists, which means the majority of the population who, whatever their faith or lack of it, are secularist in the sense that they do not wish religion, still less any one particular religion, to be in the driving seat of policymaking in this country.
Apart from the fact that the “faith groups” represent less than 10% of the population – namely, the less-than-10% who go to church, mosque, temple or synagogue regularly each week, and therefore represent no one but themselves and a tiny minority – what does Denham think he is going to learn from them? Are their points of view not extremely well-known and entirely predictable?
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