The BBC is reporting at length on the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's comments, published in New Statesman, criticising the coalition government's policies. The 'bish has a brain the size of a planet and occasionally makes newsworthy comments on a number of issues, most of which are either incomprehensible or of no consequence to the indigenous masses in the UK, most of whom have only a tenuous hold on the Church of England label that periodically affiliates them to a religion of sorts (usually by accident of birth) and which buries them, marries them and occasionally baptises their kids.
Williams sits in the House of Lords, is ensconced in an organisation still utterly entwined in the British Establishment, is elitist of education and attitude and, with the best intentions in the world, is caught ridiculously, if metaphorically, with his cassock hoisted to his hips to facilitate his pissing in the wind, especially when he speaks meally-mouthed about the privations of the poor in modern Britain. His ministry is a nonsense, with dwindling congregations, wishy-washy adherence to the Articles of faith and a cowardly impotence when it comes to defending the Deity's scriptural purpose or, indeed, pursuing that which the Christian godhead demands of its Church, i.e., evangelising among non-believers and ministering to the congregation and those in need. The Church of England remains trapped in the paradox of its origins which were indefensibly, then as now, expeditious of regal aims and opportunistic in the disappropriation of others' money and property.
If you're sincere, Rowan, resign in protest. Are you not a little bit like the rich man who wanted to know how to attain the kingdom of the heavens and to whom Jesus said, "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of the heavens"?
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