Saturday, March 28, 2009

God won't rescue world from 'stupidity,' says top Anglican


From USA Today-

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in one of his sharpest attacks yet on threats to the environment, has warned that God will not save mankind from his own environmental "stupidity."
The spiritual leader of the world's 77 million-member Anglican Communion said in a lecture at England's York Minster on Wednesday that the world faces "a whole range of doomsday prospects," ranging from global warming to threats from what he called "bio-terror" weapons.

In such end-of-the-world scenarios, Williams said, "the ultimate tragedy is that a material world capable of being a manifestation ... of divine love is choked, drowned or starved by its own stupidity."

But "to suggest that God might intervene to protect us from the corporate folly of our practices is as un-Christian and un-biblical as to suggest that he protects us from the results of our individual folly or sin."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-27-environment-God_N.htm

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