Unfortunately, he threw caution to the wind when pontificating on political matters that were really not his primary concern, thereby earning derision from the right and applause from the left, and timid to the point of abject poltroonery when it came to standing up for the Christian Gospel.<\/p>\n
If, as the remarks below imply, he really did<\/em> say what he believed, he would have been better suited to the job of Labour Party backbencher than Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n In a question and answer session at the end of a densely theological lecture on the nature of the individual, organised by the religion think tank Theos, Dr Williams admitted some of his statements, which have touched controversially on issues from the Iraq war to government economic policies, were risky.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI just don\u2019t think that it will do to be too cautious in a job like this, you are here, as is true for any archbishop, you are here to try and say what you believe you have been given to say – by which I don\u2019t mean by divine inspiration.<\/p>\n \u201cTo try and share a particular picture of what the world is like, what God is like, which of course leads you into sometimes risky and anything but infallible judgments about particular issues of the day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unfortunately, he threw caution to the wind when pontificating on political matters that were really not his primary concern, thereby earning derision from the right and applause from the left, and timid to the point of abject poltroonery when it … Continue reading