Published: September 09, 2018
The notion invites a certain kind of false heroism. If I convince myself that I’m on God’s side, then what of those who oppose me?
Everyone, it seems, has a take on the faith of Australia’s new prime minister.
Some are excited (others anxious) that we now have a Pentecostal in the Lodge. His pastor has appeared on national television reassuring us that the PM is an ordinary bloke. Even Graham Richardson has chimed in, suggesting, somewhat bizarrely, that Scott Morrison’s faith is off-limits. Then there are the longstanding debates about church and state that come to surface whenever a Christian assumes high office.
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