{"id":15150,"date":"2011-12-16T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15150"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:32:06","slug":"turning-the-tables-on-rowan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/turning-the-tables-on-rowan-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the tables on Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rowan Williams, having bungled his job as leader of the Anglican communion, now confines most of his bon mots to setting the British government straight. David Cameron, taking his cue from the Archbishop of Canterbury has a few suggestions<\/a> of his own:<\/p>\n

David Cameron last night called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a return to the \u2018moral code\u2019 of the Bible.<\/p>\n

In a highly personal speech about faith, the Prime Minister accused Dr Rowan Williams of failing to speak \u2018to the whole nation\u2019 when he criticised Government austerity policies and expressed sympathy with the summer rioters.<\/p>\n

Mr Cameron declared Britain \u2018a Christian country\u2019 and said politicians and churchmen should not be afraid to say so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Will Rowan Williams, after being revived with smelling salts, respond by pointing out that declaring Britain a Christian country is not inclusive enough for the Church of England? Will he repeat his plea<\/a> to adopt sharia law? Will he point out that, as a Druid<\/a>, he is free of dogma and any fixed set of beliefs or practices<\/a> and can\u2019t understand all this \u201cmoral code\u201d and \u201cBible\u201d nonsense.<\/p>\n

Or will he give his anti-capitalist inclinations full expression by joining the other dishevelled, bearded man<\/a> in a Christmas protest at St. Paul\u2019s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rowan Williams, having bungled his job as leader of the Anglican communion, now confines most of his bon mots to setting the British government straight. David Cameron, taking his cue from the Archbishop of Canterbury has a few suggestions of … Continue reading →<\/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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[1167,2241],"class_list":["post-15150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-occupy-st-pauls","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150","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=15150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}