‘The wickedness of man was great in the earth’

The Bible story endeavours to tell us what will happen if we don’t change our wicked ways. Today, in the absence of God as a force that is taken seriously by society, those who want to scare us into accepting their policy prescriptions have to fall back on Nature instead. But this reliance on natural disaster to reshape society is an illustration of the weakness of politics in the current period, and it’s also downright distasteful, argues Rob Lyons in Sp!ked Magazine

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