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People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.