Never being one to miss an chance to put his foot in it, the Archbishop of Canterbury- the leader of the C of E, has allegedly, according to the Times, put forward some wonderful ideas for getting us all out of the financial pickle that we are in. We should all, according to the wise one, change our lives, incorporating the monastic values of poverty, chastity and obedience. Now, i can understand the poverty bit. Many of us have taken to living beyond our means and become worshippers of material wealth, and that we should try to change. Capitalism however depends on the flow of money, mostly into the bank accounts of the very wealthy, and unless people are persuaded to spend, then their billions may begin to shrink a little, and we can't have the poor things suffer can we?
How chastity can help is beyond me! We are already shrinking in population size, at least the indigenous population seems to be. Without some good health sex, then we are doomed. The age balance is already out of kilter and there is a pressing need for young people to ensure a future.
Obedience? to whom? I can only imagine that means his God, and the words of that book that has caused so much strife in the world. Books are written by people and not by invisible men. Does it never cross people's minds that the world has moved on and that we no longer live as tribes in the middle eastern deserts. Ok the messages of peace and loving each other are all very well, but let's face it the Bible is filled with barbarity and contradictions.
Should be all follow his advice and live the lives of monks, we'd be stepping backwards in time towards an idealist age where the clergy lived in protected communities, sheltered from the poverty that surrounded them and immune to the overbearing ruling classes. It is a pipe dream. No wonder the church is losing the sheep that it likes to think that it controls.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvu0lrliPW0&feature=related
this seems apt and is very beautiful xxx
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