Is Britain still a Christian country?<\/p>\n
He ponders this for a moment, head on one side, eyes on the garden. The sound of the traffic presses in, before he speaks. \u201cIf I say that this is a post-Christian nation, that doesn\u2019t mean necessarily non-Christian. It means the cultural memory is still quite strongly Christian. And in some ways, the cultural presence is still quite strongly Christian. But it is post-Christian in the sense that habitual practice for most of the population is not taken for granted.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to pick your way quite carefully here,\u201d\u009d says a man accustomed to doing so. \u201cA Christian nation can sound like a nation of committed believers, and we are not that. Equally, we are not a nation of dedicated secularists. I think we\u2019re a lot less secular than the most optimistic members of the British Humanist Association would think.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n