WHOSE SIDE IS GOD ON?
Nationalism and Christianity
By Christopher Catherwood. SPCK. 118 pages. £9.99
ISBN 0 281 05154 2
A generation ago the conventional wisdom of middle England - whether in pub or in pew - was that religion and politics should not mix.
This seems hollow now, when the greatest threat to the USA comes from Muslim terrorists, and two governments led by avowed Christians are forced to address the claims of Shi'ite clerics to inherit the ruins of Iraq. President Bush keeps one eye on the well-heeled, well-armed fundamentalists who run the grassroots Republican Party in the name of Christ. In Britain, the Christian Institute, with its army of letter writers targeted at the House of Lords, stakes its claim to influence social policy.
