Letters to The GuardianSo David Cameron has declared that Britain is a Christian country and we should not be afraid to say so (Report, 17 December). Following the chancellor's autumn statement, the burden of paying for the deficit has been on the most vulnerable. The Child Poverty Action Group reports that 100,000 more children will be thrown into poverty. It cannot be clearer that ours is not a Christian country. It is barely a civilized one.
Rev Michael Land (retd)Hereford
• The most pertinent teaching of the gospel for our time is surely this: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matthew 6:24). Yet Cameron leads a government serving mammon in the utmost, striving ever to advance the interests of the 1% towards ever greater riches and dominance, at the expense of the needs of the truly needy – the old, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, children, all those indeed whom Jesus came to serve. I see no Christians here.
Dr Henry Jones London
• No doubt the Tories will have taken their core philosophy from Mark 4:25: "For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath." Clint Backhouse Carlisle, Cumbria
• Cameron claims the Bible has helped make Britain what it is today. Which events would he claim were uniquely Christian – slavery, the exploitation of children, colonialism, the Crusades, wars, torture and execution etc? David Marshall Llanrwst, Conwy
• On the day Cameron makes a call for a return to Christian values, yet another country, this time the Netherlands, publishes a report into decades of child abuse by Roman Catholic priests. If so many of the priests of the world's oldest and largest church can find themselves in a state of "moral collapse", then there doesn't seem to be much hope for the rest of us.
Bob PlattSteyning, West Sussex
• A revival of traditional Christian values could solve the eurozone problem at a stroke. A realignment of the currency into a Protestant euro, a Catholic euro and a Greek Orthodox euro would accord with historic choices and current economic reality. Britain might even opt in.
Dr John Doherty Vienna
