Tarnished gold
Except it was never like that. The modern age means we know much more about the world, warts and all, and people are no longer unnecessarily stigmatised by organised religion acting to suppress dissent and straitjacket behaviour.
All the sins and problems that appear to some not to have existed in the 1950s have always existed and always will. Thanks to the internet, we have uncovered for example the appalling historic sexual and physical abuse of children in institutions all over the world run by society’s most ostensibly pious.
Others in Scotland are thankfully focused on looking forward, not backwards. I encourage Mr Lucas to join us.
Alistair McBay
Methven
Perthshire