An excellent article was posted on the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ site. It’s definitley food for though, so check it out here: The LibDems can be born again
An excellent article was posted on the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ site. It’s definitley food for though, so check it out here: The LibDems can be born again
According to his profile Theo is a postmodern theologian. Either would justify utterly abstruse incomprehensibility on his part. Yet what he says is quite comprehensible and reasonable.
And then he says:
“What do we have in common as a nation? Not a religion, but a secular faith: secular liberalism. A party that dares to say this, and so to provoke the wrath of various clerics…”
Oh dear. I should think that calling liberalism a faith is precisely the sort of thing that would make it appeal only to agnostics, and utterly horrify believers and atheists alike.
Damn, I need a read my own stuff. I wrote defiantly instead of definitely. My bad. Edit made.
Yes, like you Joe i\’m uncomfortable with calling liberalism a faith. Still, the argument he puts forwards is very interesting. I wonder if the Lib Dems have actually considered this. Well, I will find out by writing to them. I shall report back soon.
Found out ages ago that the Lib Dems do have seperation of Church and State in their manifesto.