So the age old 'christian values' versus 'moral decline' debate raises its hoary head again. David Cameron reminds us this is a christian country and that the church must lead a revival of christianity to counter our moral decline. The state must have its order and as brown shirts are out of fashion it comes down to the word of god to keep us in line. Not the radical politics of Jesus Christ of course - for wealth must be allowed to pass through the eye of a needle on its way to heaven and never shall our cheeks be turned in submissive poses of non-violence. It is the omniscient (how god loves a good cctv), omnipotent god of the Old Testament to whom David Cameron refers.
This god of christian values shall smite us, or Pakistanis in the wrong place, from above for our trespasses. He shall ban gay marriages and stone adulters, single mothers or anyone giving birth in mangy estates. Women will remember their place as the bearers of tradition and children with appropriate fathers and white picket fences, staying home and keeping our sweaters loose and our skirts long. The undeserving poor would end their talk of structural inequality and accept their lot, turning into pillars of salt should they look back at the square mile of mammon that is annointed by god's heavenly host, and to which they will never enter.
And above all we will remember that it is our own ungodly ways that got us into this crisis, and only the scarification of recession and the falling to our knees before Argos catalogues and Strictly Come Dancing, beseeching god for forgiveness in the process, will get us out of it. And verily David Cameron would look down upon this world that he had created, and he would cry out 'hallelujah'.
