Posted on 06/08/2011 6:49:03 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rowan Williams Condemns 'Frightening' Coalition Dr Rowan Williams will launch a sustained attack on the Coalition in the most outspoken political intervention by an Archbishop of Canterbury for a generation.
The comments represent Dr Williams's most direct intervention in politics since he became Archbishop of Canterbury By Tim Ross 08 Jun 2011
He warns that the public is gripped by “fear” over the Government’s reforms to education, the NHS and the benefits system and accuses David Cameron and Nick Clegg of forcing through “radical policies for which no one voted”.
Openly questioning the democratic legitimacy of the Coalition, the Archbishop dismisses the Prime Minister’s “Big Society” as a “painfully stale” slogan, and claims that it is “not enough” for ministers to blame Britain’s economic and social problems on the last Labour government.
The comments come in an article he has written as guest editor of this week’s New Statesman magazine. His two-page critique, titled “The government needs to know how afraid people are”, is the most forthright political criticism by such a senior cleric since Robert Runcie enraged Margaret Thatcher with a series of attacks in the 1980s.
Lambeth Palace is braced for an angry response but Dr Williams, who became Archbishop of Canterbury nine years ago, is understood to believe that the moment is right for him to enter the political debate.
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Is this the cleric who wanted to include Islamic prayers in the Church of England?
Yup!
From 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm
“Sharia law in UK is ‘unavoidable’ The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”.
Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system. Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.”
Williams is a complete embarrassment to Britain. Not that we don’t have more than our fair share of idiots.
But this clown is a real gem.
Naturally, this statist functionary was never elected to any public position, so why doesent he shut his pompous mouth? For example.
Time for His Grace to retire and return to academia.
maybe, just maybe, the leader of the church should take the LEAD in addressing all this “fear” amongst the populace. Dr. Williams seems like a nice enough fellow, but he’s a walking leftist cliche; a man so open-minded that his brain has fallen out.
Anglican ping
If Rowan Williams is against it, it’s probably a good thing.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Also a Druid - wotta guy
Well, I wonder how King Henry the 8th would have responded to an attack like this.
It would be a miracle for the Archbishop of Canterbury to ever have a conservative thought under his tall hat. He is painfully predictable in siding with anything that promotes cradle-to-grave Socialism, even though Britain is broke.
Methinks it is time for a little disestablishmentarianism.
Methinks it is time for a little disestablishmentarianism.
Prior to that, he had a mind like a steel trap, that had rusted shut.
He also validates my favorite saying, "the shallower the brook, the louder it babbles."
Ahhh, but this statist functionary gets his salary from a statist religion, you see.
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