To be on the “wrong side of history” is not a place you want to be, in the context of contemporary religious, cultural and political debates. This notion of a right and a wrong side of history has assumed the status of a weapon to be deployed in debates over issues such as fluid gender marriage, climate change and the drug wars, merely to scratch the surface. Recently an American magazine (Vox, “Hindsight 2070”) asked a bunch of worthies what they thought would strike th…
