It's appalling that liberals are hounding Christians like Kate Forbes out of politics 🖋️ timfarron for ipaperviews
Christian faith is not parallel to a vain belief in Father Christmas. It’s no fuzzy, vague philosophy that we cling to for comfort, cherry picking the feel-good bits and tippexing out the tough stuff. To be a Christian is to believe that Christianity is true – so it’s going to affect how we see the world, how we see others. It will be inseparable from our politics. It would be odd if it wasn’t.
We can’t have a position where people with “non-religious” world views are permitted to take their value system into the public square but people of faith are not. That would be both illiberal and stupid. However, I do firmly believe it’s not our responsibility to legislate to make people who are not Christians live as though they are. That would also be illiberal. In the House of Commons I supported same-sex marriage, for instance.
The culture war has created a society where the kneejerk response to hearing a jarring world view is hostility. We would be better liberals, and better people, if we replaced that hostility with curiosity instead. Why aren’t we more interested in knowing why people think what they do?, anti-Scottish independence and pro-refugee than I was before – but I understand the thinking behind those challenging viewpoints better than I did.
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