‘The testing of your faith produces perseverance’ – James 1:2-3. That may be the case, but too much testing can also result in secularism apparently. In an interview with the Beeb, Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has said that while she was ‘never that religious’ growing up though would have ‘defined myself as a Christian apologist’. She revealed, however, that all this changed in 2008 – due to Josef Fritzl.

The Tory leader said that when she discovered what Fritzl had done to his daughter Elizabeth – imprisoning and repeatedly raping her in his basement over 24 years – it changed her attitude to religion forever. Badenoch – whose maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister – stopped believing in God as a result, confiding to the Beeb that: ‘I couldn’t stop reading this story.’

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