From Clerical Whispers and a puff piece on former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams came a memorable quote that was repeated on the web,
“I honestly don’t know whether the Communion will survive,” he says bluntly...
...On the Church of England, which many unhappy members fear is in terminal decline, he sounds almost resigned.
“I keep going to mass in my parish church in Cardiff, and making the most of that. What reassures me, what anchors me, is ultimately an act of faith, of theological conviction, that if God wants the Church to exist, the Church will exist.”
At the end of the article comes the part to which my title refers.
Is he saying that British public life has lost its moral centre?
“Yes,” he replies, boldly and without any caveat. “Increasingly, we permit and collude with dishonourable forms of behaviour, and we don’t seem very concerned about that.”
I press him to be more specific.
“I’m thinking of truth-telling in public life, and even more so when I look across the Atlantic – the venting, coarsening of the whole fabric of public office, with no sense that to hold public office requires a certain level of maintaining public dignity.”
I think we all know who he is referring to. Can he give me a name? “Satan,” he replies, with a laugh.
I think he just called Donald Trump... Satan.
What do you think?
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