Theresa May: People are coming together after division over Brexit vote

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Theresa May has used her Easter message to suggest people are &&num;8220&semi;coming together and uniting&&num;8221&semi; following divisions over the Brexit referendum&period; The UK Prime Minister stressed the opportunities for the country as it leaves the European Union and said the shared values of Britons &&num;8220&semi;can &&num;8211&semi; and must &&num;8211&semi; bring us together&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May&comma; the daughter of a vicar&comma; said the UK should be &&num;8220&semi;confident&&num;8221&semi; about Christianity&&num;8217&semi;s role in society and stand up for people&&num;8217&semi;s freedom to speak about their faith&period; She said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;This year&comma; after a period of intense debate over the right future for our country&comma; there is a sense that people are coming together and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;For at heart&comma; this country is one great union of people and nations with a proud history and a bright future&period; &&num;8220&semi;And as we face the opportunities ahead of us &&num;8211&semi; the opportunities that stem from our decision to leave the European Union and embrace the world &&num;8211&semi; our shared interests&comma; our shared ambitions and above all our shared values can &&num;8211&semi; and must &&num;8211&semi; bring us together&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Turning to faith&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We should be confident about the role that Christianity has to play in the lives of people in our country&period; &&num;8220&semi;And we should treasure the strong tradition that we have in this country of religious tolerance and freedom of speech&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We must continue to ensure that people feel able to speak about their faith&comma; and that absolutely includes their faith in Christ&period; &&num;8220&semi;We must be mindful of Christians and religious minorities around the world who do not enjoy these same freedoms&comma; but who practise their religion in secret and often in fear&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And we must do more to stand up for the freedom of people of all religions to practice their beliefs openly and in peace and safety&period;&&num;8221&semi; Mrs May highlighted the values she learned in childhood growing up in a vicarage&period; She said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Values of compassion&comma; community&comma; citizenship&period; The sense of obligation we have to one another&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;These are values we all hold in common &&num;8211&semi; and values that are visibly lived out every day by Christians &&num;8211&semi; as well as by people of other faiths or none&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron highlighted Mrs May&&num;8217&semi;s intervention in the row over the National Trust and Cadbury Easter egg hunt in his message&comma; while hitting out at nostalgia and nationalism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I fear that what the Prime Minster and others were actually getting wound up about was the thought that the National Trust might have been airbrushing out something comfortable and traditional&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And given that we are turning the clock back to the early 1970s with Brexit &lpar;or indeed the 1580s if we do end up declaring war on Spain&rpar;&comma; then nostalgia is most definitely the mood of the moment&period;&&num;8221&semi; He added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Nostalgia and nationalism have become the fuel for an aggressive and irrational brand of politics that is the opposite of what liberals stand for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t want the Christian message to be stolen by the nostalgic nationalists&comma; just as no Liberal should seek to appropriate Jesus for their own purposes either&period; &&num;8220&semi;But the Easter message is one of internationalism&comma; if you like &&num;8211&semi; Jesus died for you no matter who you are or where you are from&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And the Easter message is most definitely not about comfortable nostalgia&comma; it is radical and disturbing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;President of the National Secular Society&comma; Terry Sanderson&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We are the only country in the world with bishops in our Parliament&comma; we have an established church&comma; a third of our schools are Christian and we pride ourselves as one of the countries with the greatest religious freedom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It is therefore difficult to take seriously any suggestion that Christians in the UK are not free to talk about or practise their faith&period;&&num;8221&semi; British Humanist Association chief executive Andrew Copson said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Mrs May is right to speak up for the need to ensure freedom of religion around the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;But whenever one does this&comma; it is vital not to forget the freedom of the non-religious to also openly hold and live out their beliefs&period; &&num;8220&semi;In many parts of the world it is effectively impossible to be openly non-religious&comma; with blasphemy and apostasy punishable by death&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e40c1b1d">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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