AS a communicant of the Church of England, I am often in despair at the woolly, muddle headed leadership given by the prelates. This weekend, the two archbishops in England decided to intervene in the political process by advising voters not to support the BNP in next week's European elections.
Whatever your views on the BNP, it is surely setting an appalling precedent for the Church - the established Church no less - to jump into party politics. It was bad enough when the Church 25 years or so ago blamed the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher for the breakdown in society in Britain's inner cities. But even then, there was no attempt to tell people not to vote Conservative.
The established Church was created out of the Roman Catholic Church so that the monarch could divorce. In the Church's eyes, divorce is bad and so it surely follows that the Anglican church itself is illegitimate.
Over the weekend, the Archbishop of Canterbury tried also to suggest that the media stop publishing stories about MPs and their expenses because of the damage being done to democracy. Poppycock, Your Grace: Democracy has not been damaged by the media, but by the MPs and their bloated expense claims.
More here-
http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/blogs/dines_days.aspx?PostURL=http%3A//www.eadt.co.uk/cs_eadt/cs/blogs/dines_days/archive/2009/05/26/1700128.aspx
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Religion and politics are almost never mutually exclusive. There seem to be many in England who have this view of late. In the 1980s I recall bishops voicing all sorts of opinions: they may have been disagreed with, but there was less of the mutually exclusive view that now seems to abound.
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