Don't ask me to weep if Christianity is `vanquished'

The Independent - London | September 7, 2001| | Copyright

EIGHT DAYS ago, while my stay-at-home colleagues were doing their best with the latest minor revelations from the Conservative leadership campaign, I was prancing round the ruins on the temple- island of Delos. The kids managed the (now drained) Sacred Lake but were defeated by the heat and by the extraordinary discovery - at the sanctuary of Dionysus - that shapes that they had previously only seen scrawled on toilet walls were once solemnly carved in marble by religious Hellenes. Try explaining what a phallus is to an eight- year-old girl.

So I left them both drinking Cokes in the shade of ...

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