Welby, Politics and the European Union

The European Union has been “the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of the Western Roman Empire”, said the Archbishop of Canterbury at the start of this month, reports the Church Times. What, not the printing press? The Reformation? Religious freedom? High literacy rates? Huge reductions in infant mortality? I could go on. I’m amazed that Archbishop Welby should believe a capitalist trade bloc is the best thing since sliced bread. 

If Justin Welby is a man of God, let him preach Christ’s gospel of salvation. If he wants to play the politician, let him stand for election and seek the people’s mandate. It’s never good when politicians make a spectacle of meddling in religion; it’s shameful when churchmen neglect the gospel to play politics. 

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