God’s role in politics is not to underwrite bad ideas

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews XI 1

Ah yes; things not seen. A little while ago this country had itself a Prime Minister who received rather more guidance from things not seen than any of us had imagined at the time. That thing not seen was, according to Tony Blair, God; apparently these two important figures in world history would fairly regularly commune, chew the fat, put the, er, world to rights. At the time, when he was Prime Minister, Mr Blair kept this a secret: he was plainly embarrassed by the perpetual presence of his divine associate. Since he’s left office, however, Mr Blair has come clean — and I suppose it is now God’s turn to be embarrassed. God is still in office, of course, and quite possibly still in power.

How it must rankle to hear Mr Blair, to whom He once offered words of advice and succour, supposedly, refer to God in much the same way as his wife Cherie might refer to Carole Caplin.