30. October 2024

What Holds Our Society Together?

In a time when many people question the stability and value of our democracy, the issue of social cohesion becomes critically important. Polarization and radicalization threaten not only democratic culture but also social peace.

So, what holds us together when society seems to be drifting apart, as intolerance and ideology increasingly shake the foundations of our community?

No wonder many people believe that the world would be more peaceful without religions of any kind. But would it really be? Would we then really have, as the British bestselling author Ian McEwan says, “a world of humility before the sanctity of life”?