The sword and the cross.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

SIR: Roger Sandall (December 2007) takes his slipper to Roger Scruton, who, he says, has contributed "to the confused and inadequate response to [Islam's] murderous depredations by an all-too-accommodating Western Christian host". Scruton's error, he says, is caused by his "abstract over-intellectualised treatment of religious matters that plays into [the] hands [of] Hitchdawk & Co". Sandall then goes on correctly to expatiate upon the murderous depredations of Islam, and pithily to define correctly the sword-vs-precept dichotomy that separates Islam from Christianity.

I presume that notwithstanding daily evidence to the contrary, Sandall imagines that we in the West are still fondly to be regarded as a "Christian civilisation". Thus, he leaves the most important question hanging in the air, and that is, if we are the lawful heirs to Christianity, what are we going to do about Islam? The time is coming when precept will be of no value to the survival of non-Islamic societies. Surely a Christianity without Christ is a nonsense.

Only a doctrinally sound, tradition-based, militant and practical Christianity, based on the supreme rights of Christ the King and Christ the high priest, will finally prevail over both Islam and Judeo-Masonic materialism. When we have so-called "Vicars of Christ" (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI) publicly telling sworn enemies of Christ that they and we "worship the same God" (within Whose Triune Godhead, Christ Himself is a Consubstantial Person), what hope does ...