"Last week’s court decision to ban prayers at the start of council meetings is
all of a piece. The judge may or may not have got the law right – there will
almost certainly be an appeal. But it is the National Secular Society which,
in taking its case to court to have its views imposed on the rest of us, is
responsible for the ban on Christians praying
As a Jewish schoolboy, I had to sit through Christian prayers at the end of
every assembly. It would not have occurred to me or any other Jew I knew
that we should try to stop them praying in front of us. We were a small
minority at a school with a large majority of Christians. I simply sat
silently, my mind wandering off to other things.
The militant secularists, however, have only one modus operandi – attack.
Respect for others’ views seems to be entirely missing from their moral
calculus.
They entirely miss the irony of their position. Religious leaders who focus
solely on a sectarian appeal to their own followers, and who seek to raise
their own standing by diminishing the views of others, end up on the margins
of serious debate. And as their noise drowns out the quieter, less
confrontational majority, they act against their own religion’s interest."...
- Stephen Pollard, an editor from "The Jewish Chronicles", quoted from
The Telegraph Article, For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words.
