Britain: deeply-secularized, utilitarian culture that tolerates Christians until they start questioning the coherence of societies which can't speak of truth and error, good and evil
In the wake of Benedict XVI's recent trip to Britain, we have witnessed--yet again--most journalists' inability to read this pontificate accurately. Whether it was Queen Elizabeth's gracious welcoming address, Prime Minister David Cameron's sensible reflections, or the tens of thousands of happy faces of all ages and colors who came to see Benedict in Scotland and England (utterly dwarfing the rather strange collection of angry Kafkaesque protestors), all these facts quickly disproved the usual suspects' predictions of low-turnouts and massive anti-pope demonstrations.