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| WADI KHARRAR, JORDAN - FEBRUARY 20: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams prays whilst presiding over a service at the Baptism site at the River Jordan, on February 20, 2010, in Wadi Kharrar, Jordan. Williams, who expressed his fears over the 'eroding Christian presence in the Holy Land', layed the foundation stone for the Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist at the site which is to be built on land donated by Jordan's King Abdullah. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
Poor old Rowan
Williams whenever he makes one of his old Testament prophet type condemnations
nobody takes him seriously. He looks the part with his peppered beard, and with
his socialist type background of a raging Welsh revolutionary. Unfortunately it’s
the role with its establishment trappings, he gets flak from both sides the
dawkins type atheist who thinks that religion does not belong in the public
square, then the Christian fundamentalist who think that he has conspired with
the secular left to destroy traditional Christianity. They are both wrong the
Civil Rights movement not only in the US but the anti apartheid movement of in South Africa
(Desmond Tutu, Trevor Huddleston CR) and Bob Morgan in Ely, and Bill Morgan in
Merthyr Tudfil) all these were inspired by the Social Gospel and the old Testament
Prophets who condemned those who oppressed the poor. Dawkins read just part of
the Bible about the miracles and the rantings of Leviticus, and ignore the
ethics that is all through the Bible which thunders Justice. The Fundies are
wrong because they are fixated on sin and revenge. I am afraid that Rowan’s
heart is in the right place, but his body was not, he was a lame and weak
leader who was no pastor and could not lead, and this was true of both Monmouth
and Wales, he tried to be everyone’s friend. I wish him all the best, I was
sorry when he lost his best friend Chris Morgan it was a grievous loss.
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