This is, no doubt, in part to profile his own foundation dedicated to this purpose. Some have found this passion and commitment rather strange — even if Blair converted to Catholicism after leaving Downing Street — given that while in office (for 10 years) he seemed to maintain, implicitly, that religion has no place in politics.
Of course religion has a place in politics. We only have to look around the world — Ireland, the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, Kashmir, Tibet — to find religion shaping the nature of political affiliation and, sadly, often human conflict. Blair's position is that young people in particular need to discover what is shared between the great religions of the world so that they see that this outweighs what divides them.
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