26 September

Trump just nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the US. Mother of 7, reads the Constitution as an 'originalist' (i.e. as if Moses had brought it down from the mountain), loves guns, hates abortion, hates pubic health systems. I wonder when people will recognise that the politics we're seeing across the world isn't Left vs Right. It's Church vs State, that centuries-old battle. The Church is winning. I don't judge whether that's a good or bad thing, it is what it is. I see the church as the original inventor of our society. It certainly ran society for far longer than any democracies have managed to date. Secularism has never understood belief or desire, that people want shared, strong beliefs and desires. This is its failure as much as the church's victory.