Bedfordshire's Patron Saint

We're having a great time at today's Festival of Progress in honour of John Bunyan. A great favourite of ours, being local and having written Allegory.

Today if Bunyan were writing I doubt not that he would have included the Temptress Internet, which would have lured Christian away with the promise of unlimited treasures of slight interest. And the dangers of the Meadow of Cynicism, where Christian would have lain chewing a piece of grass and not believing anything - until unexpectedly trampled by the Ironic Herd of Cows.

Christian would also have marched through the Pass of Liberalism to the Plains of Moral Relativism, where he would totally have lost his moral compass and with it any sense of direction.  Until finally, in the Marsh of Post-Modernism, he would finally have realised that it was his story that he needed to worry about, and that he was wasting his time trying to fit anyone else into his narrative. Then he would have pushed on to his personal Celestial City - letting others follow him if they thought it might be interesting for them.