Blair's mentor is the Anglican priest Peter Thompson, whom he met at Oxford in 1972 when Blair was reading law and Thompson reading theology.
Thompson was (and still is) a liberal who introduced Blair to the writings of John Macmurray, a Scottish socialist philosopher whose ideas had more in common with Karl Marx than Jesus Christ.
Thompson (who at one time was removed from a curacy in Melbourne as a suspected communist) continued to be Blair's guru right through to his election as Prime Minister.
Tony Blair himself has described his religion: "I had always
believed in God but I had become slightly detached from it. I couldn't make sense of it.
Peter [Thompson, a Christian Socialist mentor] made it relevant, practical rather than theological.
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