Secular secession

The letter (2 September) by Norman Bonney will cause many Scots alarm. The petition to remove Christian observance from Scottish non-denominational state schools, other than as an “opt-in”, would mark the start of a process of disengagement of Scotland from Christendom and from our national traditions and roots.

Most Scots will not want this to happen, but if any political party seeks to amend education in this way it should seek election with a manifesto containing this policy of removing religious observance from non-Catholic state schools at the next Holyrood election.

Scotland’s tiny secular lobby is very dedicated to its goal of severing Scotland from its Christian heritage, which dates back long before Arbroath and 1320, to Ninian and Columba.

The secular societies always claim simply to oppose “religious privilege”, but anyone studying their websites, in my view, may quickly see that it is Christian belief itself to which they are opposed. The Scottish Parliament and the Scots electorate should pause before giving a tiny body of unrepresentative secular activists their way, I suggest.

GUS LOGAN

York Road

North Berwick, East Lothian