Totalitarianism Comes for the Archbishop
21st April 2011
The rich and powerful should be required by law to spend some time every year helping the poor and needy, the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested today.
Ever notice how some people have a lot of enthusiasm for schemes that make other people do stuff? By law? (Yeah, I’m lookin’ at YOU, Barack.)
Rowan Williams said a return to the medieval tradition when monarchs ritually washed the feet of the poor would serve to remind politicians and bankers what should be the purpose of their wealth and power.
The Pope does it, every year. When was the last time YOU did it, Archie?
”What about having a new law that made all Cabinet members and leaders of political parties, editors of national papers and the hundred most successful financiers in the UK spend a couple of hours every year serving dinners in a primary school on a council estate, or cleaning bathrooms in a residential home?” he suggested.
Note that he doesn’t include rock stars, Muslim Imams, or labor union officials. Guess we know what the hidden agenda is here.
What about having a new law that the Archbishop of Canterbury STFU on matters that he doesn’t understand? (Oops, that would make him unable to comment on religion. On the other hand, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.)
April 22nd, 2011 at 08:35
”What about having a new law that made all Cabinet members and leaders of political parties, editors of national papers and the hundred most successful financiers in the UK spend a couple of hours every year serving dinners in a primary school on a council estate, or cleaning bathrooms in a residential home?” he suggested.
So he “suggests” there be a law to send down the losers in contests of power to the countryside where they can be struggled against by the peasants. Hasn’t this been tried? It’s called Maoism. How can a man who openly favors Communism be an Anglican?
April 22nd, 2011 at 10:02
Some British philosopher whose name escapes me at the moment said that the Church of England is a place where neither the Pope nor Mao Tse-Tung need feel uncomfortable. He’s an Anglican because, sad to say, a lot of Anglicans have ceased to be Christian.