The God of the Bible, in this so-called Christian nation, is an unknown God. If the God of Biblical Christianity was respected, if His word was known and obeyed by the thousands who fill churches in St. Lucia, this would be a different country. The last three decades have brought a gradual erosion of the authority of both church and state. Ministers of government and public officials are openly ridiculed. Police guardians of law are hated and despised.
Parental jurisdiction is flouted.
If we wanted any more proof of the impotence of religious authority, the carnage in the Cathedral provided it. The credibility of the Biblical Scriptures and those who proclaim their Divine revelation have been similarly undermined. Corruption of church and state officials who have brought their offices into disrepute is not the only reason. Throughout our Western world, there has been a deliberate removal of the Christian foundations which had influenced social and cultural development for two thousand years. Among others, Darwin, Freud and Marx provided the ideas that contributed to a religious liberalism within Western societies, which produced the attitudes now prevailing towards the Bible and its fundamental truths.