The Archbishop of Woke slanders his own flock
by Will Jones, The Conservative Woman:
HOW didn’t we guess till the Archbishop of Canterbury told us? The Church of England is ‘deeply, institutionally’ racist, according to the Most Rev Justin Welby.
I wonder how all the curates, vicars, bishops, lay preachers, Sunday school teachers, vergers, churchwardens and other active members of the C of E’s congregations felt about his smearing of their collective character?
But the mood of self-flagellation is in the air. His Grace’s delayed but intense bout of anguish and remorse at the General Synod last week was prompted by a motion, which the church’s national assembly backed unanimously, to ‘lament’ and apologise for both conscious and unconscious racism in the church since the arrival of the Windrush generation in the UK.
Justin Welby must have been taking lessons on arch wokeness from Joaquin Phoenix when he was named Best Actor, appropriately for Joker, at the Baftas a couple of weeks ago.
Welby was quite dramatic. ‘I’m ashamed of our history and I’m ashamed of our failure,’ he said. ‘I’m ashamed of our lack of witness to Christ. I’m ashamed of my lack of urgent voice to the church . . . It’s shaming as well as shocking.’
He had advantages as a white, straight, educated man, he said, adding: ‘I’m not ashamed of those advantages; I’m ashamed of not knowing I had them. And I think that’s where we probably need to start.’
All that was missing were the props – a hair shirt and a lash.
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