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04/23/2004: "Williams Criticizes Blair Government on Lack of Iraq `Truthfulness'"

Religion News Service April 22, 2004.
LONDON (RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in an apparent reference to the British government's justifications for the war in Iraq, said Tuesday the nation's political health has been damaged by claims that turned out not be true.
-- Robert Nowell

Realist Comment: Is there no end to the hypocrisy of these theologians and clergy?

Does Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, ever think about the damage done to England's "political health" by the two hundred years of war between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland? What a shameless hypocrite. Will the claims of the Anglican and Catholic Churches prove not to be true? Their conflicting concepts about God can't both be true.

Jesus said to the religious hypocrites of his day: "And why beholdest thou the sliver that is in thy brother's eye, but considereth not the beam that is in thy own eye.
Or how will thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the sliver out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou shall see clearly to cast out the sliver out of thy brother's eye. Mat. 7:3-5.

Archbishop of Canterbury Williams should first deal with the hatred and violence within Christianity, before judging the British government. While he is at it, he might also consider the conflict between Islam and Christianity, which is the root cause of the war in Iraq.

If we ever want to end the violence caused by these inherently flawed religions, we must boldly confront clerical hypocrisy.



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