Anglican Archbishop, Rowan Williams' Recent Comment
There's another huge storm a brewin' in the Anglican / Episcopal Church. Except this time it's not about sexuality but culture. Check out the blowback here.
This is what happens when your concept of the Church is a big, giant, welcoming tent. Don't get me wrong, Jesus is indeed very welcoming. But the Body of Christ is NOT a tent! It's not made of fabric and bendy poles! Instead, it's a man who sacrificed his life for his friends. Who was raised up on the third day. Instead, it's the people that participate in his sacrifice.
If you haven't read the article, Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of the Anglican Church, is encouraging the British government to accept Sharia (Islamic) law as a sort of governing option, as I understand it. He says Sharia is already being recognized to a large extent by the government, and with the continued influx of Muslims into England, it is only innevitable that Islamic law will make a bigger and bigger impact on the country.
As for me, I don't really care that much about how the English decide to run their country. It's a democratic nation and it would make sense that the laws of the country are representative of the people that live there. However, I am concerned about the Archbishops arguments and general attitude about diversity.
He says that Sharia is inevitable. According to his own creeds, the only thing that is innevitable is the resurrection of the dead. God will do what he will with this "culture war," but Rowan's calling is to stand by Christ as Christ stands for the Father. Maybe I'm wrong, but I see too much false pluralism, too much religious relevancy in Rowan's attitude.
I'm trying hard not to be too critical of Rowan. He's trying to be a peacemaker, and I admire that. I'm trying to learn to forgive him, forgive my Church, and to forgive myself of seeing "in a mirror dimly."
What do you think?
2 comments:
I think the archbishop doesn't realize what is going on here. I think that the world doesn't realize what is going on here. It is happenin g in Spain, and America, and England, and in many parts of the world. What is happening is that foreigners, mainly of Arab decent, are moving in other countries, (not their own), and pushing their politics, and their beliefs on these countries cultures and religions, when they have NO RIGHT to do so. They are trying to make their way of life, their Koran, their jihad, acceptable in the eyes of the world and the countries they are trying to come into, and it is quite frankly, bullshit. England should NOT be accepting their politics, their way of life, or their religious persuasions, and should never change their country or it's laws to include their beliefs. It's similar to what is happening in America. Just because a HUGE influx of people come to our country from Mexico, seeking a better life, DOES NOT MEAN that we have to somehow seek to change our laws, and find a way to accommodate them or their "way of life" - if anything, perhaps these people need to understand who's country they are coming into, and abide by our laws and our way of life.
you may be right anonymous, but i don't think that's the way democracy works. you do have to change your laws if the majority votes for it.
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