Not only do the utterances of this Archbishop show his naïveté, but they also often show his stupidity! Does he really believe that people who are non-believers are inhuman? And if belief in God is a prerequisite of being human, why do Jihadists display such an unquenchable thirst for blood? How “human” is that? – ©Mark
MUSLIM NEWS: The Archbishop of Canterbury has praised Muslims for raising the profile of religion and ethical challenges in society. “I think Islam has made a very significant contribution to getting a debate about religion into public life,” Dr Rowan Williams said. “And I think it’s very right that we should have these debates and discussions between Muslims and Christians and others in public,” he said.
The Archbishop was speaking in an exclusive interview with the Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi. The interview focused largely on the general lack of ethical principles in today’s secular society, emphasising the need to re-discover the “sense of responsible [sic] to each other and for each other.”
“The idea that what’s good for me and what’s good for you belongs together. Both Muslims and Christians have a very strong sense of God’s will being done in community, when we really follow the needs of the community and work for one another on that in the will of God.”
On the current economic crisis, Dr Williams said it was due to a number of factors and that he did not want to pin the blame on the bankers. “I would blame all of us for having repeatedly voted for governments since the 1980’s that have pushed for growth that doesn’t always deal with poverty,” he said. “If I want to narrow it down, one of the problems in the last round of crisis is that we have lost any sense of trust and relationship and transactions of financial speculators in recent years have gone so far away from any face to face relationships, any real calculation of whether somebody is credit worthy that they have become abstract. So that sense of personal responsibility to one another has been lost, and behind that is the sense of personal responsibility to God that has been lost.”
Questioned on whether it was because of the kind of society we live in the sense that there is no faith in the public domain, the Archbishop said that at the heart of it, society had “lost the idea that it’s essential to human beings to have some relationship to God.”
“We can’t really be human unless we have some sort of relationship with God. And in so much of our culture that’s just not there these days, so we do pay the price for it,” he said. Interview: Archbishop Welcomes Muslims Raising Profile of Religion in Society >>> | Friday, March 27, 2009
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