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Christian Politics, Pluralism and Kate Forbes

Grace in Common

CHAPTER

The Incompatibility of Religious Identity in Politics

Corey: I see a lot of in Scottish conversation at the moment is the idea that it's actually okay to be religious in politics. And lots of our politicians are, but for that to be compatible with liberal democracy, you have to be the right kind of religious. There are wrong kinds of being religious that a lot of people assume are not compatible with leadership in a liberal democracy. So there's some kind of incompatibility between particular ways of being religious, and working in a liberal Democracy. Corey: But this is, I'm trying to shift the conversation away from a lot of pretty ignorant comments about Kate Forbes' views on moral enlightenment. It doesn't really matter what she says about

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