Ireland needs a fresh, an all-island Christian pressure group which will clean up the faith's tarnished image.
Until the start of this millennium, openly saying you were an Irish Christian was a badge of pride. That is no longer the case.
Society judges Christians not by the content of the Bible, but by the actions of those who call themselves believers – especially the 'born again' brigade.
We're already had Irisgate. Once the idol of Northern Christian women, Iris Robinson tumbled from grace when it emerged she had a teenage lover in spite of her marriage to First Minister Emperor Robbo.
And we have just celebrated the national day of our island's patron saint, one of the chief architects who helped pagan Ireland to Christianity.
He would be turning in his grave if he saw the behaviour of some so-called Christians. He would probably say – the heathens can have Ireland back again!
Like Saint Peter who once denied three times that he knew Jesus Christ, many modern Christians prefer to say they are atheists rather than be the butt of jokes and jibes.
Like the vast majority of Christians, I nearly puked when I watched the gruesome two-part BBC drama about the notorious pervert priest, Brendan Smyth.
The most terrifying portrayal came when the show dramatised Smyth's funeral – buried in the dead of night with concrete poured onto his coffin to prevent his grave being desecrated.
How many young people across Ireland feel the calling to a vocation in the Holy Orders, but shy away for fear of being branded a pervert?
And Protestants need not point the finger that tainting Christianity is purely a Catholic crime – what about convicted killers Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart, currently both serving life for murdering their spouses?
Both were linked to one of the most fundamentalist of the Protestant churches – the Baptists – when they were having their affair, which led to cold blooded murder.
Baptists take their inspiration from the New Testament hero, John The Baptist, who baptised Jesus and was eventually beheaded.
Stewart had been a Sunday School teacher, one of the most respected positions in the modern Christian faith.
How many people do not want to become Baptist pastors or even Sunday School teachers for fear of being compared to Stewart?
The reality is that the Irish Christian faith has lost its way and the island requires an US-style Moral Majority to revive its fortunes, otherwise the established Christian Churches in Ireland will go into terminal decline.
Christians have a chance to clean up their act with the 400th anniversary this year of the Bible's King James Version, one of the oldest translations of this Great Book.
Just as the Holy Orders have failed to rally the Catholic faithful back to the pews in the wake of the clerical abuse scandals, so too, have the Protestant pressure groups failed to stop the slide into secularism by thousands of lapsed Protestants.
Groups like the Evangelical Protestant Society, Caleb Foundation, Christian Institute and Lord's Day Observance Society are now viewed as Christianity's lunatic fringe rather than mainstream opinion.
The time may soon come when 'born again' believers have to form their own Irish Christianity Party to get their voices heard because mainstream parties have given the thumbs down to Biblical principles.
