{"id":86715,"date":"2019-11-19T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86715"},"modified":"2019-11-19T05:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:32:21","slug":"mirror-archbishop-of-canterbury-justin-welby-says-jesus-would-not-have-got-a-uk-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86715","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says Jesus would not have got a UK visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says Jesus would not have got a UK visa under the points-based system being proposed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The clergyman, who has been outspoken about social justice, said there would have to be a &#8220;shortage of carpenters&#8221; in Britain for Jesus to be granted entry during an event at the CBI conference in London.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Our founder Jesus Christ was of course not white, middle class and British &#8211; he certainly wouldn&#8217;t have got a visa &#8211; unless we&#8217;re particularly short of carpenters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop was talking as part in a discussion on social inequality chaired by the BBC Business Editor Faisal Islam who shared a clip on his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/faisalislam\/status\/1196500246286745600\">Twitter<\/a> feed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/archbishop-canterbury-justin-welby-says-20910023\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says Jesus would not have got a UK visa<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZMJyhSvCF8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZMJyhSvCF8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cMa4OlMCnz\">pic.twitter.com\/cMa4OlMCnz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MirrorPolitics\/status\/1196526866053632000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2019<\/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>Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says Jesus would not have got a UK visa under the points-based system being proposed by the government. The clergyman, who has been outspoken about social justice, said there would have to be a &#8220;shortage<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86715\">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":[382,175,67,324,168,144,147,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-immigration","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86715","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=86715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86720,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86715\/revisions\/86720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}