I rather hope I won’t live long enough to find out.

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>But I do think he is more or less right when he says ‘We live in an age in which our liberal media elite and most people who call themselves Christian in social surveys treat liberalism and Christianity as strangers to themselves and each other. Farron sought relief from his public trial by recalling the proud history of his faith in the reformation of British politics. No one wanted to hear it. He called upon the decency and forbearance that are supposed to mark British society. There is none left.’

>Why is this? Because Antonio Gramsci’s advice (first offered to the revolutionary left almost a century ago but only really grasped and understood in the late 1960s) has been taken. Because those who want to begin the world over again now understand that you sort out the culture first and the barracks (and the banks) later rather than the other way round. The political party, the charity, the research body, the think tank, the pressure group or membership organisation, the university, the TV station, the newspaper, the primary school, even the church itself, must be quietly turned to the purposes of the utopians. Then the rest will follow.

>So utopian revolutionary views, once confined to openly totalitarian and violent factions in Western politics, have now become the apparently respectable ‘centrist’ aims of ‘mainstream’ politics, culture, media and education. And, while they have not adopted and will not ( I hope and trust) adopt the secret police and gulag methods of their 20thcentury forerunners, they have discovered many almost equally effective weapons for crushing Christianity or any other force which stands against worldly utopianism. In these times, soft power threats to promotion, employment and status, backed up by the public shaming which social media can visit on any target at any time, does the job pretty well. Whether it will be enough, in the end, I don’t know. I rather hope I won’t live long enough to find out.

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/06/thoughts-on-the-resignation-of-tim-farron-as-leader-of-the-liberal-democrats.html

You horrific pseuds love sprinkling Christian references everywhere in your dumb writings and world view but you are not on the side of P Hitch.