Dear Sir,
I would like to respond to two comments Robert Coulson made in his letter ‘Lewis and the EU’ (Letters, July en). I agree with him that C.S. Lewis’s comment made in 1953, referring to the apostasy of the great part of Europe from the Christian faith, would apply well to the EU today, as long as we are realistic and humble enough to admit that this includes the spiritual condition of Great Britain.
Especially in recent weeks, before, during and after the referendum, I heard many express the view, that, as long as we left the EU, we would stop the political, social and spiritual contamination coming from Europe. Such an opinion completely overlooks the fact that apostasy is right here among us.
