A Conservative MP has called for a greater role for Christianity in politics while launching a blistering attack on secularism.

Addressing a near empty Commons chamber in an adjournment debate, Danny Kruger (pictured) said:

“A new restoration is needed now, with a revival of the faith, a recovery of a Christian politics and a re-founding of this nation on the teachings that Alfred made the basis of the common law of England all those centuries ago. This is a mission for the Church under its next leader, whoever that is; it is a mission for this place.”

According to Christian historians, Alfred the Great’s Book of Laws incorporated Christian principles and Mosaic Law, which includes the ten commandments.

“The fact is that the strong gods are back, and we have to choose which god to worship. I suggest we worship the God who came in the weakest form, Jesus Christ. This God is a jealous god—it is him or nothing—and we have to own our Christian story, or repudiate it he added.

This is the route to a “prosperous modernity” founded on “the worship of God”, he said.

Kruger said the Church of England is “a chaplain to the nation” and claimed every citizen is “its member”, even “if you do not believe in its teachings”.

He argued Christian revival was a mission for the Church even though it is “riven by deep disputes over doctrine” and is “literally leaderless”.

Kruger, who has spearheaded opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying, described the legislation as a “great sin”. He said a recent partial decriminalisation of abortion for women was “the killing of the weak and most defenceless human beings”.

The “Christian model”, he said, requires that “the law is there to protect the ordinary person against the abuse of power” and “every individual has equal dignity and freedom including, crucially, the freedom of conscience, religion and belief”.

Kruger omitted any mention of oppression of other religions and denominations that have occurred under “the Christian model”, such as the expulsion of the Jews in 1290 and the treatment of Catholics as traitors.

Furthermore, Kruger also omitted any mention of the subjugation and persecution of women and LGBT people, or the endemic child sexual abuse perpetrated within the CofE.

He said secularism – a country being “neutral about God” – leads to a public square “empty of any metaphysics” and a “desert of materialism and individual reason”.

Kruger further suggested that not believing in an afterlife had led to World Wars I and II.

He said Islam was “moving into the space from which Christianity has been ejected”, and derided followers of paganism as “mad”.

He also claimed human rights “without the Christian God” are “mere non-existent aspirations”.

“To worship human rights is to worship fairies”, he added.

Bishops’ bench offers “unique and valued spiritual perspective”

Responding, Conservative Andrew Rosindell MP claimed that having the monarch as the head of the established church means “there are protections for all religions and denominations in our constitution”.

But this is not borne out by evidence: the monarch swears a coronation oath to defend the Church of England’s privileges and doctrine, and Catholics are still legally prohibited from taking the throne

Responding for the Government, Jim McMahon MP said Church of England bishops who sit by right in the Lords “offer a unique and valued spiritual perspective”.

In November, erstwhile archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was forced to resign after a damning report concluded he “could and should” have done more on sadistic child sexual abuse perpetrated by John Smyth.

In April, the bishop of Manchester, who sits by right in the Lords, argued child sexual abuse revealed during confession should be exempted from mandatory reporting laws.

McMahon also noted the role of the Prime Minister in appointing CofE bishops. He said he hoped by “highlighting some of the ways the Church, Parliament and the Executive are intertwined” he would reassure Kruger of “the importance of the Church of England”.

NSS: ‘Secularism best guardian of liberal democracy’

National Secular Society chief executive Stephen Evans said: “This kind of fire-and-brimstone evangelism is better suited to the pulpit than to Parliament.

“Danny Kruger is entitled to his beliefs, but his use of Parliament as a platform to proselytise is unlikely to persuade the British public, which is becoming increasingly religiously diverse while simultaneously exhibiting a growing indifference toward organised religion.

“Secularism, rather than Christianity, is the best guardian of liberal democracy and a society where the principles of freedom, tolerance, and rationalism can thrive. By separating religious beliefs from state affairs, we can protect everyone’s freedom of religion or belief while also ensuring that policies are guided by evidence, empathy and reason rather than religious dogma.”