17 August

The Taliban are back. No matter how much we try to separate religion and politics, we always fail. The modernist view of the world we all grew up with says this is a bad thing. It’s very historically naive. I struggle to find many people who understand that the churches basically built our societies. A church was the very first thing in every town, for a reason. This isn’t a judgement as to whether that’s a good or bad thing, more me suggesting there’s a lot more complexity to this than our modernist ideas can see.