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Fickle fortune

Kate Chisholm

Wednesday, 8th October 2008

Tulips in Winter (BBC Radio 3); Soul and Skin (BBC Radio 4)

‘If they’re not in tune with their God I don’t know how they can expect to make decisions for us as Americans,’ Watson was told by one ardent evangelical talking about the presidential contenders. But he also revealed that the Democrats are retaliating by setting up their own Christian vote-winning organisation, called Matthew 25, after the verses in the gospel which instruct us to feed the hungry and look after the poor. On Thursday Watson travels to Virginia to find out how issues of race are affecting the political battlelines. It’s gripping to hear ordinary people, rather than Beltway eggheads, talking about politics with such moral fervour, but also frightening to realise that in philosophical terms we could be back in 17th-century Amsterdam, and amid a society about to walk into the abyss through its own wilful blindness.

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