It may be a key Christian principle but forgiving too easily can be dangerous, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested.
Rowan Williams has warned that easy forgiveness can make suffering appear not to matter.
It may be a key Christian principle but forgiving too easily can be dangerous, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested.
Rowan Williams has warned that easy forgiveness can make suffering appear not to matter.
Not something there is any danger of the Archbishop forgiving easily, with his somewhat Welsh penchant for bearing grudges and carrying chips.
That is when he is not giving jobs to his heretical former students.
Here is the Rev Canon Giles Fraser who he taught, with a BBC Radio 4 ‘thought for the day’ on Ash Wednesday. Fraser, who poses as a Christian minister, has no comfort to offer for the dying, no prospect of any life after this to assure them of – no salvation, no resurrection, no heaven – only the enjoyment of the here and now, which is probably a bit late for the dying anyway, and not something they are in any position to particularly enjoy.
I can’t recommend anybody invites Giles Fraser, nor for that matter Rowan Williams to minister to the dying – all they have to offer is DEATH much less take any advice from Williams on forgiveness, prayer, or anything else, for whatever he daily mouths off on, he never puts into practice what he preaches.
More treacherous with Fraser is that he ministers to our young trainee army officers at Sandhurst. You can just imagine the Christian message he has to offer our young people who will face battle, and perhaps sadly a young death.
Such is the treachery of Giles Fraser, and the Druid who taught him.
Not all Welsh are druids, of course, and unfortunately, it’s an appellation wrongly describing those who have been elected to the [i]Gorsedd o Bardd,[/i] or the Council of the Bards. Rowan Williams was elected to the Council several years ago at the Welsh National Eisteddfod……whose site location I’ve since forgotten……and that’s why he’s seen (wrongly, in the opinion of so many people of Welsh ancestry, as I am) as a druid. As you may know, he is a poet and writer of some renown in Wales, and that’s the reason why he was chosen. [i]It has nothing to do with religion.[/i] Surprising, too, that so many in the UK outside Wales don’t know the history of the Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd.
Easy on the Gallophobia, PM, or the ghost of Owain Glyndwr may come to haunt you! But you are right about the Rev Canon Giles Fraser of St Paul’s Cathedral, a man who seems to believe in very little with great passion. I gather he’s always popping up on the BBC, who love a cleric who believes in nothing except the beauty of homosexuality. I am trying to imagine what one of Rev Fraser’s funerals would be like. Does he burst out laughing when he comes to the line (in sure and certain hope of the resurrection’?
“Surprising, too, that so many in the UK outside Wales don’t know the history of the Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd”
– Cennydd, most people outside the UK think Wales is a part of England.
Are “druiders” the birthers of Anglicanism?
4, I thought England was an annex of Scotland.
#6: It was during the Blair-Brown-Darling-Cook etc years when most of the British government were Scots.
Any true-blooded Welshman will swear that while their country might be politically united with England, culturally and linguistically, they will [b]never[/b] be united with them. [b]Cymru am Byth![/b]
And now that I’ve defended Welshness, I have to say that, with the allsuion that RDW is a so-called druid, I agree with pageantmaster’s comments in post #1. I have heard similar comments from friends and relatives in Wales, by the way.
There are some very fine people from Wales, as those on this thread demonstrate…and after all, it’s not your fault. But you send us your rubbish to mess us up – Lloyd George, and Rowan Williams.
Yes, they were, and are, rather poor excuses.