Letter: Introduction of a new liberal culture has left our culture and history ignored and supressed

It all began rather innocently and drifted in like a harmless mist. We didn’t realise it was carrying a deadly virus that would have a serious effect on our spiritual and moral health.

With the passage of time it mutated, inducing a sickness that robbed us of our dignity and self-respect. Struck deaf and dumb, we were paralysed; it left us morally and spiritually incapacitated. The symptoms were apathy and indolence, but for some strange reason the Catholic community was less affected, and offered scope for finding a cure; it had so much to teach us.

The virus first appeared in our schools; this had serious side-effects and adversely affected staff behaviour. They saw themselves as missionaries on a crusade to save the world, and the classroom was the mission field.

Applying their conversion therapy they introduced a new liberal culture, and our culture and our history were ignored, or supressed. Burning with a self-righteous glow, they thought they were on the side of the angels!

Filtering out from the schools this new culture took on a religious fervour and spread to the churches and the pulpits. It resulted in a strange spirit of political correctness that sprang up and took root. Sermons fed from this missionary zeal and it neutered Christianity.

Politicians were even more susceptible. Feeding into this mood, chasing the vote, and courting the media, they abandoned politics and became community workers. Distancing themselves from anything remotely controversial they became a mere sideshow. Aimless, and without even the semblance of a blush, they were reduced to roaming the roads looking for potholes.

A generation that enjoyed the good times had no concept of the damage it had done to our children, so was under no constraint to offer an apology, and showed no remorse. They don’t even know to feel embarrassed, so, on your behalf, I’ll blush for them.

Clive Maxwell, Bleary