My friend, Steve Kneale writes here, about being careful what we ask for. In the light of Henry Nowak’s murder there has been a big focus on the religious right of Sikhs to carry the Kirpan in public. He offers the scenario of someone using a Bible as a weapon and harming someone, leading to a ban on Bibles Obviously it is an imperfect example but you get the point.
Now, as it happens, I’ve picked up that some Sikhs carry blunted kirpans and perhaps that’s a wise and sensitive way of closing a loophole.
However, it strikes me that our secular society might also be happy for us as Christians to keep our “swords”, to carry our Bibles, so long as they too are blunted.
Faithroots 