[ScottinVA]

In a surprise move Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, added fuel to the fire when he said the cross for many Christians is little more than jewellery

This, from the same guy who submits to the idea that shariah law in Britain is "inevitable."

Sounds like a case of making nice to the future overlords. Well... your new masters will still want you dead, Mr. Williams.

[Vanders9]

In a surprise move Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, added fuel to the fire when he said the cross for many Christians is little more than jewellery, "which religious people make and hang on to" as a substitute for true faith.

Read what he is actually saying. Ignore "surprise move" and "fuel to the fire". That is just media editing to highlight difference, trivialise the issue, and incite controversy. Now, to the actual statement. He is saying that many (not all) Christians think that wearing a piece of jewellery, a hunk of metal in a cross shape, means that they are 'Christian'. Instead of having true faith, they use a symbol as a substitute for it. They are fixated on external appearance, and not inner transformation. Its a bit like owning a bible but never reading it. Now, is that a true statement or not? Answer, honestly, yes. There are altogether too many 'Christians' who think, or more importantly act, like that.