The ridiculously naïve Archbishop of Canterbury!
In his usually excellent and insightful way, Charles Moore's opinion piece in today's Telegraph entitled But, Archbishop, this is the bleak mid-winter for many Christians, shows us just how weak and misty-eyed the current Archbishop actually is.
This Archbishop has a mission which he seems not to know about; so let me tell him what it is. His mission should be to fill the pews in the ever-emptying churches here in the United Kingdom. To do this, he needs to evangelize!
Earlier Archbishops might well have had other missions in times when the churches were packed to capacity. This Archbishop has no other mission more important than this one. The Church, if he didn't know it, is in crisis. He needs to do something about it - and quickly!
Interfaith services are useless and meaningless. You cannot negotiate with Muslims, for they are totally unwilling to compromise. Syncretism will not work either. The message of Christianity is either correct, or it is not. If the Archbishop believes it not to be, then he has no business being in the position he is.
Dr Rowan Williams, The Archbishop, is said to be extremely intellectual. This is no time to sit back and intellectualize. There's a job to be done. He should get on with it.
©Mark Alexander
3 comments:
I am a long-time communicant of the Anglican Church and am profoundly embarassed that we have leadership which does not stand up for Christians being persecuted in the Middle East. Politicians which do nothing but appease, appease, appease and pander to Muslims do so because they are vote-grubbers, utterly without a trace of decency or devotion to principle. For obvious reasons, I expect more from the leaders of my Church.
The Church of England is on the skids! It needs firm, strong leadership; but they've got Rowan Williams - a man ready to appease, appease, appease!
He doesn't represent my views; I can tell you that!
JudahQ:
I, too, was raised in the CofE, but feel rather 'unchurched', like you. It is far too PC for me at the moment ever to make me feel the need to return. I go to church rarely, perhaps on high days and holidays, and the odd wedding or funeral. It's sad, but with all this interfaith rubbish going on - notice that interfaith services always take place in a church, never a mosque - then I shall not feel drawn to return either.
This AofC is going around, it seems, apologizing for the Church. Only recently, he was in Egypt apologizing for our forefathers bringing such carols as Hark the Herald ... to them. How utterly foolish is that?
He seems to me to be a typical example of a very intellectual academic - someone who appears not to be able to see the wood for the trees!
Many out and out academics make poor politicians for that very reason: they see things from all angles and therefore find it difficult to come to a decision.
As I have already stated: His mission should be to fill the churches, but he's not doing it. And he isn't going to fill them either, the way he's going about things.
He should be firm in his conviction that man's salvation is through Jesus Christ only. If he isn't conviced of this, then how can poor mortals like me be expected to be convinced?
He should be saying that there is only one true faith, only one way to eternal salvation. But he's not going to do that, since he is too PC.
John Sentamu seems to be more convincing, as far as I can see.
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