In todays Guardian, Mark Lawson claims that:
In a nation where it was reported yesterday that the most popular new name for baby girls is “Nevaeh” - the word “heaven” spelled backwards - religious beliefs, which are properly a matter for that variety of opinion called faith, have been redefined as fact.
The nation is America and [...]






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