Pried Month

The annual ritual has begun. Company logos have been changed (though fewer than last year), corporate newsletters with the obligatory LGBTQ+ section have been sent out, adverts for public marches and demonstrations are distributed: it is the holy month of Pride. This is the secularists’ sacred cow, the modern liberal’s religious festival. Writing this on Pride the 1st, 2025, and publishing it on the website on Pride the 3rd, 2025, we might already feel a little jaded by the ideological bombardment, the latest in the secularists’ attriting war upon Britain’s Christian heritage. Even churches have been propagating the new morality. I wrote to my local vicar this time last year whose parish church had seen fit to bedeck its porch with Pride-themed bunting. I was, she informed me, the only complainant, though she proved herself to be a thoughtful individual, and my initial email was received not ungraciously. I walked past it yesterday to see if the bold banners of Baal fluttered aloft in Barlick; they did not.

I suspect that Pride Month is just a reaction to the emptiness of secularism. Canadian writer, Charles Taylor, considers 'identify politics' as a means by which the lonely individuals created by capitalism can once more band together into meaningful social groups in the wake of religion’s decline. Waving the flags, shouting the slogans, despising the past: all these combine into a reassuring, corporate identity, a reason to live.

Jesus said "the thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly". John 10:10