I'm certainly not going to say anything to identify him as he is liable to a death sentence when he returns home, as he must. The great impression our chat left with me was how happy he clearly was to have discovered the deeper truth of natural history.

And one more conversion in the relatively safe isolation of secular Australia hardly balances the millions being born and indoctrinated every year before they acquire the capacity for critical thinking, nor does it redress the failure of "free thinkers" everywhere to deal effectively with the challenges of delivering charity, (re)education and taking personal responsibility for one's own moral decisions.