In 1946 Winston Churchill declared to the British Conservative Party leadership what he believed to be its “main objectives”.
Topping the list was “To uphold the Christian religion and resist all attacks upon it”.
While not a Christian in the way Scott Morrison is, Churchill nonetheless had a deep sense of divine destiny and above all knew that the Judeo-Christian ethic underpinned Western Civilisation.
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