{"id":101584,"date":"2021-04-23T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101584"},"modified":"2021-04-23T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:17:18","slug":"church-times-lets-question-but-not-have-a-culture-war-says-archbishop-of-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101584","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Let\u2019s question, but not have a culture war, says Archbishop of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a \u201cgolden-age myth\u201d to assume that politicians are more corrupt now than they used to be, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bbc\">BBC<\/a> journalist Nick Robinson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p09fkdx1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Thinking podcast<\/a>, posted on Friday, Archbishop Welby said: \u201cThey [politicians] get things wrong; they mess up. Politicians are human beings. If we want perfect politicians, there won\u2019t be anyone sitting in the House of Commons. We\u2019ll never have another Prime Minister. We can\u2019t have a Royal Family. There\u2019s nobody who can rule if we insist that they\u2019re faultless and flawless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cvast majority\u201d of politicians whom he had met privately showed \u201ca passion about trying, despite all the grit in the system, to make some good progress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he was reluctant to attribute motives to politicians, but to focus instead on their mistakes, Archbishop Welby replied: \u201cI\u2019m perfectly keen on attributing motive occasionally. . . I spent 20 years on reconciliation work in the middle of conflicts and I\u2019ve met some very evil people indeed. And I had no doubt at all who they were in it for, and it was themselves and what they got out of it, and it was terrible. . . Of course, there\u2019s people like that, and sometimes they get to the top, and that is really worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2021\/30-april\/news\/uk\/let-s-question-but-not-have-a-culture-war-says-archbishop-of-canterbury\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LATEST. It is a \u201cgolden-age myth\u201d to assume that politicians are more corrupt now than they used to be, the Archbishop of Canterbury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinWelby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustinWelby<\/a> has said <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NZGorigBdC\">https:\/\/t.co\/NZGorigBdC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1385599293676048390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a \u201cgolden-age myth\u201d to assume that politicians are more corrupt now than they used to be, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. In an interview with the BBC journalist Nick Robinson for the Political Thinking podcast, posted on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101584\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,67,389,199,168,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101586,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101584\/revisions\/101586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}