And so this is Christmas, as Mr Lennon crooned, and Christians had better make the most of it. You don’t have to be John the Baptist to see that a religious celebration of the birth of Christ is not compatible with the zeitgeist.

While no government has explicitly mentioned targets – at least not yet – it is obvious that there is a thinly concealed goal to achieve a 43 per cent reduction in Christian participation in the public square by 2030 and net zero traditional Christians by 2050.