John Profumo, Matt Hancock & redemption’s scandal

John Stevens  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Jan 2023
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John Profumo, Matt Hancock & redemption’s scandal

Matt Hancock plus jungle wildlife (left) John Profumo (right)

How do you gain redemption and forgiveness in our graceless society?

The world’s answer is that redemption and forgiveness must be earned by works. This has always been the way of religion but is it also the way of our secular culture.

This was demonstrated by the appearance of Matt Hancock on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Hancock entered the jungle widely vilified and hated because of the clinch caught on an office CCTV with his girlfriend in breach of the strict Covid rules he had enacted. His appearance on the show was condemned by the Prime Minister and former colleagues, and he was suspended from the Conservative Party.

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