Without becoming naïve, people needed to have greater faith in the “other”, Lord Williams said, and reject political and media rhetoric that fosters panic and mistrust of politicians, people in public life, organisations or charities.
“Our politics and our media really thrive on mistrust,” he said. “It seems the basic emotion we’re encouraged to feel by quite a lot of political and media rhetoric is a sort of mild, subdued panic.
“There comes to be a corrosive, circular, enclosed world in which what you are always longing for is a good reason to not trust someone. I don’t think that can be good for us.”
What is he saying? I read it twice.
Yes I had the same experience. Good ol’ Rowan.
If he is saying that we shouldn’t trust a political candidate simply because he or she claims to be Christian, or mouths the right words, then I heartily agree with him!
Same goes for business partners – never trust someone merely because they go to church or are in the same bible study as you. I have known some very ethical Christian business people, but I have also seen some terrible hurt and fraud occur through Christians being too trusting of their brethren. Fortunately, I have also known a number of parish clergy who were wise in the ways of the world and gave timely warnings when they could see bad situations developing.
But whether that is what Lord Williams is talking about, I just don’t know! 🙂
ONE shouldn’t just listen to what out-of-office former archbishops of canterbury cannot communicate clearly, either. One should look at their actions to see what they meant. Like Rowan, so Justin, so zeitgeisty, so hip, so balmy, so sharia-y, so econmical-y, so ya-da-ya-da-y.