Those who blame religion for the terrible events in Norway last Friday are wrong, well at least partly wrong. Such dreadful dangers come as a result of fixed, unbending ideas, where doubt never happens - this is not necessarily about religion, but can be. Nazism, for example, was not religious, yet violence on a vast scale was carried out in it's name. The same can be said for Stalinism that did what it could to destroy organised religion in the USSR.
It was humbling to hear one of the young survivors admit that that they had not been strong enough to tackle the madman, but he said in the end liberal decency will prevail in Norway, and we can hope elsewhere too.
In blog earlier this year I recounted my experience observing an English Defence League rally in Shotton. The events in Norway reminded me of the venomous hatred these EDL people had in their faces; it was same hatred that led to the massacres in Norway.
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