Posted on 12/25/2007 6:24:47 AM PST by Zakeet
The leader of the world's Anglicans slammed "human greed" in his Christmas sermon, saying it threatened the Earth's fragile environmental balance.
Doctor Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral in south-east England, that humanity needed to protect the world created by God.
People should treat each other and nature with "reverence", the Church of England leader said.
"More and more (is) clearly required of us as we grow in awareness of how fragile is the balance of species and environments in the world and just how our greed distorts it.
"When we threaten the balance of things, we don't just put our material survival at risk; more profoundly we put our spiritual sensitivity at risk -- the possibility of being opened up to endless wonder by the world around us."
The archbishop also stressed the need to respect others and praised "brave and loving people" in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
"The delight and reverence we should have towards the things of creation is intensified many times where human relationships are concerned," he said.
"And if peace is to be more than a pause in open conflict, it must be grounded in this passionate amazed reverence for others.
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mmm, thanks, I will mention that. It’s a good hook. How nice it would be to have a few conservative friends in that liberal soup. At TG I teased him — ‘You sound like a National Enquirer article.’ He was going on about some conspiracy something, at a big clan get-together. We hooted and hollered him into clearer thinking.
You’re right, I’m not a Christian - I’m Jewish. More importantly, though, I acknowledged that I did not know enough about the situation to dispute your argument.
My only question was how it is possible that this act, in itself, is “non-Christian” - that is, how is it non-Christian to talk about any environmental issues (and, y’know, “the environment” encompasses a lot more than algore’s “global warming” BS)
Good for you. I hope your son takes the bait. This is going to be a good year to be involved too. There is more time to do things since the time between choosing candidates and the actual election is so long.
I hope you and your husband had a good Christmas. In Denver, we had snow all day and may have set a new record.
You had snow all day? Yes, it’s been quite a snowy week all across the country, it looked like. We were going to drive to Grand Junction and are so glad we didn’t.
I’ll mention that group. I’d love to see him involved in something like that. Have a good Christmas, too. ‘The time between the years’ the Volga Germans called it (in between Christmas and Epiphany, Jan. 6).
Is this the same dipshit who last week said the Nativity and Three Kings were all “myths”?
I believe however, that Archbishop has replaced traditional Christian doctrines and beliefs in order to embrace environmentalism as a kind of quasi-religious doctrine. When environmentalism replaces the fundamentals of Christian faith at the core of a sermon on Christmas Day, of all days, I begin to doubt whether the sermonizer retains any Christian beliefs. I suspect that the Archbishop finds environmentalism more congenial than a Christian faith he no longer possesses. Let me add that this in not the first time that the Archbishop has confused a leftist social agenda for ministering to his flock.
Further, I wish to clarify that in my previous post, I did not mean to insinuate that you were not a Christian. My comments were directed at the person of the Archbishop, and I regret any confusion.
bttt :
There are now more Roman Catholics in England than Anglicans.
Gee, I wonder why?
Merry Christmas
No comment. (I can’t without cussing.)
Oh yeah... Merry Christmas to you too!
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