speak out on social justice
Oh no, not this old chestnut again. Should the church get stuck into the mucky
world of politics? How ridiculous ? of course it should. Dom H�lder C�mara,
former Roman Catholic archbishop in Brazil, put it perfectly: "When I give to
the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a
communist."
The same sentimental doublethink about the church is equally true of how the
Tories have responded to the archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's
suggestion that the coalition government is letting down the most vulnerable
in our society. The Tories want religious organisations to play a leading role
in the formation of the "big society" (actually, it was our idea in the first
place), but then get all uppity when those on the ground start reflecting back
to government the effects of their policies ? policies that very few of us
thought we were voting for.
The "quiet resurgence of the seductive language of the 'deserving' and
'undeserving' poor" needs a proper kicking. Perhaps our atheist intellectuals
are too ...
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