{"id":28129,"date":"2020-04-18T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28129"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T20:55:51","slug":"justin-welby-worries-about-post-pestilence-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-worries-about-post-pestilence-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby worries about post pestilence inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s right to, of course. Once Corona virus infections have subsided, some people will be dead and others alive. It doesn\u2019t get much more inequitable than that.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, some who are dead will find themselves in paradise and some in a place where global warming has reached a diabolical crescendo.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these are important enough to concern Justin Welby, though. He is concentrating on what matters most: money, who has it and who doesn\u2019t. And no wonder! The archbishop of Canterbury lives at Lambeth Palace: the clue to what that looks like can be found in the second word. Here it is, a modest little place for the main Anglican representative of the religion started by the fellow reputed to have said, \u201cFoxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28130\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-18_164438-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-18_164438-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-18_164438-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-18_164438-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-18_164438-500x225.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-18_164438.jpg 1349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which goes to show that in a post-pestilence Welbyian utopia, some archbishops would be more equal than others.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.brinkwire.com\/canada\/archbishop-of-canterbury-warns-of-dangers-of-inequality-after-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The archbishop of Canterbury has said inequalities must be addressed or even eliminated once the current \u201cpestilence\u201d is over.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Easter Sunday on the BBC\u2019s Andrew Marr show, Justin Welby said there was a \u201chuge, huge danger\u201d of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating inequality, but \u201cthat is our choice as a nation and as a world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe next wave coming is the economic one \u2026 We have a choice there as a nation and as a society and as a world. Do we take hold of our destiny and make sure the differences are mitigated, abolished where possible \u2013 or do we just let things happen, do we let the market rule, in which case there will be enormous suffering.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s right to, of course. Once Corona virus infections have subsided, some people will be dead and others alive. It doesn\u2019t get much more inequitable than that. 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