The Archbishop of Canterbury is not satisfied with presiding over the disintegration of the Anglican Communion. Last year, he famously endorsed the notion of Sharia law in Britain as inevitable. Now he has called for an end to economic growth.
‘We cannot grow indefinitely in economic terms without moving towards the death of what is most distinctively human, the death of the habits that make sense in a shared world where life has to be sustained by co-operation not only between humans but between humans and their material world,’ he said. . . .
He has attacked belief in market forces as ‘idolatry’; praised the contempt of Marxists for ‘unbridled capitalism’, and, last month, condemned the City because no-one has said sorry for the excesses that ended in recession.
How ironic. Economic growth stops and the Archbishop complains? One has to conclude that it is the excesses that have Dr. Williams’ chasuble in a twist, not the recession that he would hope to achieve by other means.
Like the servant to whom only one talent was given, Dr. Williams advocates merely preserving the status quo. But Williams won’t even do that. Praising anti-capitalist Marxists, endorsing the demise of democracy, dithering as the Anglican Communion unravels, it seems the Archbishop is preserving nothing he was entrusted with.
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