The Unite the Kingdom rally in London on Saturday was striking not only for its politics, but for its symbolism. Amid the speeches, chants, and anger over the direction of Britain, there were crosses held aloft, prayers offered, Christian flags waved, and repeated appeals to the nation’s ‘Christian heritage’.
Some who attended would no doubt insist they were simply defending Christian civilisation from cultural collapse and the advance of radical Islamism. Yet the sight of explicitly Christian rhetoric wrapped so tightly around a populist political movement ought to give believers pause.
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