Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair writes in On Faith about religion and the modern world:
In this increasingly globalized world, we are more than ever inter-connected, but we are also more uncertain. What were firm boundaries of race, culture and identity are becoming more fluid. Electronic communication, physical migration, flows of world trade, all expose us to ideas which are different from those we inherited and to traditions which we may not have encountered before. And in such a world the role of religion becomes ever more crucial. It can either play a positive role, helping to deepen understanding for the common good, or it can be exploited to become destructive, emphasizing difference, excluding and mistrusting the ‘other’.
So religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st Century as political ideology was to the 20th Century—indeed more so.
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