THANK GOD FOR SPARING US LADY WARNOCK’S ‘HUMAN VALUES’

In a column about morality in yesterday’s Observer magazine, euthanasia supporter Baroness Warnock wrote:

Though many people derive their morality from religious beliefs, the morality that guides political decision-making must be separated from any idea of divine origin. For many, the idea of God is meaningless. If they are led to suppose that morality without religion is impossible, they will reject morality along with theism. We must be careful to allow that morality can be based on purely human values. But in a country steeped in a Judaeo-Christian religion, the outcome will not be so different.

At the risk of impertinence from a non-academic layman on moral philosophy, Cranmer's Curate would like to put this question to the former Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge: how did the ‘Judaeo-Christian religion’ which you acknowledge produces a moral outcome get ‘steeped’ in this country in the first place?

It certainly wasn’t home-brewed on these barbaric islands, where the indigenous ‘human values’ of the dark ages allowed human sacrifice and other forms of brutality. It was brought here by people with a firm belief in the transcendent, almighty God of the Bible. Those men and women were courageous enough to risk their lives for His Son Jesus Christ's gospel of eternal redemption from sin.

Thank God He gave those missionaries to the British Isles His message of love in their hearts. Otherwise, we would be relying on Lady Warnock’s ‘human values’ for our moral compass and bumping off our elderly relatives with dementia.