
Imam Tom discusses The Impossible State by Wael Hallaq
Blogging Theology
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The Moral Free Zone
The state does not self-understand as taking stances on moral issues or participating in the moral sort of formation of its subjects, he says. The morality that is kind of asserted by those sorts of forces is very thin compared to what it really means for a person to be a good person. People don't quite grasp that. Just ask a simple question. If you're citizens of the UK, like I am or you, the United States or France or Germany, any Western country, and you ask if you're of your, your government's, your rulers, how should I morally live? Does God exist? And I can go to the list of really hot button moral issues. He
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