When I was a young Kiwi, I lived in a Christian country. Churches were full on Sundays although many New Zealanders were only 'passive” Christians, who attended church only to be married or buried or to be baptised.

There were other groups, such as Jewish people, but most, including Maori people, called themselves Christian.

But things suddenly changed in the 1960s. Atheists, became aggressively active, and, using so-called 'science”, worked to persuade people, especially the vulnerable young, that there was no God. Nor, of course, no values for human behaviour except to do whatever you wished. Concern for others no longer existed. The results we now endure.
In our former Christian society, the old Gods of the Greeks, the Romans, and Maori, were put in their respected place in history.

But the promotion of the multiculture idea enabled opponents of Christianity to swamp it with all manner of belief systems – Pagan, Muslim, pure pragmatism, and anything that would destroy our settled value system.

Multiculturalism is simply another name for social disintegration.

J Mills, Mount Maunganui.