Alan Collins, of Denys Road, Totnes, writes: Prime Minister David Cameron's view that we live in a Christian country is both philosophically and statistically untrue, but in legal terms it was substantiated by five Law Lords in 2003. Their decision left Andrew and Gail Wallbank liable to pay Warwickshire parish council's chancery repair bill of £100,000 and a legal bill of £250,000. The right to claim chancery repairs from households built on land once owned by the Church of England was upheld in a Land Registry Act passed in 2002, thus proving that this is not a mediaeval anachronism, but something which reflects the thinking of the established ruling class. In October 2013, a similar decision forced 1,000 residents to pay a chancel repair bill of £200,000 to St Andrew's Church in Gorleston. No other religious organisation has inherited this legal right to claim repair costs for those places of worship from freeholders within the parish boundaries, after purchasing them for Hindu temples, Sikh gurudwaras and Islamic mosques.  And so, no matter how different Mr Cameron's idea of a Christian country may be, from the teachings of Jesus Christ about not charging interest for lending money, there's no doubt that, legally speaking, we do, indeed, live in a Christian country. However, if Mr Cameron should ever consider trying to create right human relationships within the multicultural society that has emerged from the ashes of the British Empire, then he would have something far more meaningful and a little less divisive to add to this debate.