Welby, a slave to the altar of woke
by Kim Rye, TCW:
IT seems that the leader of the Church of England is blissfully unaware of the reason for falling church attendance across this country. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, recently declared in an interview with the New Statesman that he would ‘rather be woke than asleep’. Is this a coincidence?
Welby appears to be creating more division and controversy than any of his predecessors.
The latest scheme is a Church of England fund of up to £1billion demanded by a pressure group led by descendants of enslaved Africans. This has caused uproar in churches across the country with His Grace focused primarily on satisfying the demands of what we call ‘social justice warriors’ rather than descendants of slaves.
So the Church of England congregation now has to foot the bill for the transgressions of slave owners centuries ago. But which slave owners – European or African?
Welby and the rest of the slavery-obsessed woke left appear to be embarrassingly unaware of the West Africa Squadron branch of the British Navy that ended slavery in the early to mid-19th century. Between 1807 and 1860 the Squadron seized approximately 1,600 ships and freed 150,000 Africans. In doing this, the Navy lost 1,587 men through accident or disease. What about their descendants?
And what about the Barbary pirates and their regular raids on the Cornish coast 400 years ago when they took innocent people as slaves?
Welby needs to turn his attention to the slavery happening right now. According to Statista.com, the countries with the highest slavery, as of 2021, were India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Indonesia and Nigeria.
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