{"id":14924,"date":"2011-11-13T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14924"},"modified":"2011-11-13T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T21:31:49","slug":"the-church-of-england-continues-to-ponder-what-ails-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-england-continues-to-ponder-what-ails-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of England continues to ponder what ails society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And continues to get it wrong. This time it&#8217;s the archbishop of York, John Sentamu, who tells us that inequality, specifically income inequality, has caused, among other things, violence, drug abuse, &#8220;self-harm&#8221; and mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Why does a church whose prescription for alleviating humanity\u2019s angst ought to be spiritual, centred on personal sin and redemption through Christ, peddle materialistic leftist twaddle instead?<\/p>\n<p>Is it ashamed of its own Gospel? Has it replaced the message of salvation with the message of social engineering?<\/p>\n<p>What is particularly risible about John Sentamu\u2019s faith in <em>equality<\/em>, is that only totalitarianism can make people equal: in practice, equally miserable, squalid, impoverished, brutalised and hellish.<\/p>\n<p>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/john-sentamu-only-shared-wealth-brings-happiness-6261447.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drug abuse and violence are rife. Mental illness seems to have become more common, not simply better recognised, over the last generation or so. Rates of self-harm among teenage girls are also high and seem to be increasing. Personal debt has hit a record high.<\/p>\n<p>So what has gone wrong? What has caused the loss of paradise? David Cameron said two years ago: &#8220;Research by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, in The Spirit Level, has shown that among the richest countries, it&#8217;s the more unequal ones that do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And continues to get it wrong. This time it&#8217;s the archbishop of York, John Sentamu, who tells us that inequality, specifically income inequality, has caused, among other things, violence, drug abuse, &#8220;self-harm&#8221; and mental illness. Why does a church whose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-england-continues-to-ponder-what-ails-society\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[734,951],"class_list":["post-14924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupy","tag-equality","tag-john-sentamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}