Blair: Lack of faith the road to disaster

FORMER prime minister Tony Blair has defended religion, warning that a world without faith would be one on a path to “tragedy and disaster”.

The former PM, who converted to Catholicism after he left office in 2007, said he believed the sense of something “bigger and more important” than oneself was “deeply important” for society’s health.

“[People thought] that as society became more developed and as we became more prosperous, faith would be relegated, it would become a kind of relic of the past – what kind of ignorant people do, but not what civilised, educated people do,” he said.

“A world without faith would be on the path to tragedy and disaster, I really believe that.”

Mr Blair was speaking at a conference on leadership, organised by the Holy Trinity Brompton Church in London.