The ironic thing is that England is not 'culturally Christian' at all! We are culturally pagan.

All the yearly festivals -especially Easter and Xmas -are amost completely pagan in their symbolism and celebration. In communities across the country we still choose May Queens, or celebrate Midsummer with Morris Dancing, mumming plays and various other events. We may claim to be memorialising the Gunpowder Plot, but those are still the bonfires (bane-fires) of the Autumn Equinox

All those lovely Cathedrals and parish churches are built on spots where the Old Gods were once worshipped. In many of them you will find, if you look, symbols of the gods that were once, and still are, worshipped there. A snake, an apple, a horned animal, the Sun, the Moon, a sheaf of wheat, a plough, a scythe, a hammer, fire. All pagan symbols.

The Catholic priests knew right from the start that while the people might come to them to ostensibly worship the Christian God, they were also coming where they had always come, to honour the gods that mattered to them. They knew that Christianity was only the thinnest of veneers. The Church of Englad knew the same. Even the Methodists eventually understood. It's only the Calvinist fringe like the United Reformed and the imports and oddballs like the Mormons or JWs that don't.

Which is why, of course, we're so comfortable with secular humanism - because it's basically the same as paganism.