What you are not going to do is let the creation of a religious World-view, and the administration of a decent just Society, go by default; and leave it to the “intolerant secularism, that is striding across Europe”, to use Pope Benedict’s graphic phrase, to supply these omissions. At least not unless you are mad! But then Enoch Powell would have said before the gods destroy someone, they make him mad. And the way to start creating a vision of a world created by God is to enable religion to talk the language of all those disciplines necessary to run Society or the State.

Just as at the break-up of the Roman Empire, the best people were in cloisters, and the barbarians extinguished Christianity in Britain for 150 years, though not in Wales; so today Christians seem solely concerned with the spiritual life, and leave the rest to others. It is a pity that the Church is digging its own grave. But if you do not know any science, and have no idea how to manage conflict, but simply disapprove of it, then you probably cannot see what, if anything, can be done. So if the Church is so supine, is it possible for others to create a world-view, which accords to science the respect due to it, and recognises the brutal truth that War is inevitable if you come across someone more interested in fighting than talking?