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The ultimate irony, needless to say, is that Charles Darwin said he believed in God. Let’s face it: Most intelligent people believe in God, as did most world leaders in the past. My uncle, a war hero in the Albanian campaign when we wiped out the Italians, once told me that he had never seen courage like that shown by priests and medical orderlies in the thick of battle. Unarmed and without helmets, they would give the last rights to the dying and tend to the wounded. While soldiers dived into their foxholes, they would go out in the open field and make the sign of the cross over the fallen. God, in most cases, protected them. Go figure, you nonbelievers.

This is my 38th Christmas column, and of course it seems like yesterday that I wrote the first one. It was in my father’s London office on Albemarle Street. I used clichés galore and never mentioned God, just Christmas parties. I have probably come full circle. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” he called the proposition self-evident. It was a very Christian thing to say because not all men are created equal. They have equal rights under God, and only a Christian God ensures the latter. Just look at what Islam is doing to its adherents, how it has cheapened life to the extent that people volunteer to blow themselves up in order to get some rice and some virgins, and compare that with Christianity. The preciousness and equal worth of every human being is largely rooted in Christianity. Have a very happy Christmas and defend our faith. And if need be, carry a knife.