A real but dangerous distraction: In our world, Brexit is the minor game

Our capacity, maybe our need, to live with paradox is a characteristic of 21st-century humanity. Many of us, some more fervently than others, invest absolute belief in systems that could not survive a courtroom cross-examination.

Yet hundreds of millions of people, maybe billions, live through the lens of one religion or another utterly untroubled by doubt or the questions of those who do not share their conviction. This capacity to march to a different drumbeat often means different people, different faith-based groups, have different priorities. We are living through one of those dangerous moments of conflicting, distracting priorities.