Religion and Politics
The Centre for Independant Studies had a talk tonight on the interaction of Religion and Politics.
Much was said about the slow resurgence of religion, though unfortunately by aggregation, many points seemed to be lost or dulled as attempts were made to generalise across various groupings.
The core message was a constitutional law one. Australia has a seperation of church and state, but not a wall which prevents the two from intermingling.
Interesting points were made about the extent of church involvement in secular activities, and recent calls for this to increase.
I wonder though how effective this could be. Politicians will try and get churches to support them. As churches increase their political commentary, they may be over time endangering their focus on their core tasks.
To get the balance right, that is the hard thing.
Much was said about the slow resurgence of religion, though unfortunately by aggregation, many points seemed to be lost or dulled as attempts were made to generalise across various groupings.
The core message was a constitutional law one. Australia has a seperation of church and state, but not a wall which prevents the two from intermingling.
Interesting points were made about the extent of church involvement in secular activities, and recent calls for this to increase.
I wonder though how effective this could be. Politicians will try and get churches to support them. As churches increase their political commentary, they may be over time endangering their focus on their core tasks.
To get the balance right, that is the hard thing.
posted by Pete at
10:33 PM
