Kjell Skartveit
“Religion is a private matter,” says Egon Holstad, editor of the newspaper iTromsø, in an attempt to put Christian Youth party (KrFU) leader Ingrid Olina Hovland in her place. A thousand years of Norwegian history proves Holstad wrong. Faith influences the lawmaker, and the law shapes society. A demand to exclude Christianity from political life effectively means abolishing democracy and introducing absolutism.