The Alpha course is aimed at people on the brink of emotional collapse. It's the Christian equivalent of dianetics. Trekking across Spain on pilgrimage, and wheeling your unfortunate relations to Lourdes is not Christianity - it's voodoo and new-ageism. Awful, woolly mindedness. The sort of people who say "I know there's something or someone controlling the universe, but I don't know who or what it is." Muppets.