Britain a 'Christian country'?

Careful there, prime

minister!
April 23, 2014 | By Michael McGough
Prime Minister David Cameron is under fire for suggesting that Britain should be more
confident about our status as a Christian country. That assertion came in a column the Tory
leader wrote for the Church Times, an Anglican publication. In good Anglican fashion,
Cameron was careful to add that being more confident about our status as a Christian
country does not somehow involve doing down other faiths or passing judgment on those
with no faith at all. He also confessed to being a rather classic member of the Church of
England: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more difficult parts
of the faith. The prime minister's diffidence didn't help him with his critics, who saw his
privileging of Christianity as incompatible with contemporary multicultural Britain.