{"id":20110,"date":"2013-08-15T22:33:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20110"},"modified":"2013-08-15T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:37:37","slug":"rowan-williams-thinks-british-christians-are-cry-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-thinks-british-christians-are-cry-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams thinks British Christians are cry-babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lord Williams said religious believers should be wary of complaining about their treatment in the Western world, with those claiming they are “persecuted” making him “very uneasy”.<\/p>\n

He added the level of “not being taken very seriously” or “being made fun of” in Britain and the United States is not comparable to the “murderous hostility” faced by others in different parts of the world.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, he urged those who complain of ill-treatment for their beliefs in Britain to “grow up”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No-one cared much what Rowan Williams thought when he was Archbishop of Canterbury \u2013 actually, due to his tortuous, eyebrow-matching tangled communication abilities, most people didn\u2019t know<\/i> what he thought \u2013 so I doubt that anyone cares now that he isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, he will<\/i> keep spouting pious aphorisms as if we do \u2013 care, that is.<\/p>\n

Christians in Britain are being persecuted: they are losing their jobs<\/a>, losing their businesses<\/a> and losing their right to freedom of expression<\/a>; because he was seen to represent Christendom, Lee Rigby lost his life<\/a>. Sadly, the only thing that would make Rowan Williams side with British Christians is if he discovered that greedy bankers were, somehow, selectively making obscene profits from them – that would still be about the bankers rather than the Christians, of course.<\/p>\n

Rowan also believes that Muslim women \u201cassert themselves<\/a>\u201d by wearing a veil, that sharia law is a good idea<\/a> and that playing at being a druid<\/a> is a routine component of being an Anglican archbishop.<\/p>\n

When I “grow up”, perhaps I will agree with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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