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The extraordinary TV interview the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, gave on Friday has been deeply disturbing me ever since.
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My thoughts were further strengthened yesterday evening when I went for a walk with my dog along local lanes & fields. I saw this "Wayside Cross" from 1882 with the inscription "Im Kreuz ist Heil" - In the Cross is Salvation 
Salvation is a complicated belief/concept:
"Taken in its widest sense, as deliverance from dangers and ills in general, however, only when the ills in question form part of a great system against which human power is helpless"
"Taken in its widest sense, as deliverance from dangers and ills in general, however, only when the ills in question form part of a great system against which human power is helpless"
In this holiest of holy weeks in the Christian Calendar with the Cross of Jesus playing the staring role, appropriate that Justin Welby deems the Salvation from chaos amongst his flock will be solved by simply accepting Brexit despite the "ills" all being human - lies & fraud.
He justifies acceptance of sins on the basis that 'I think there is a lot of fear in Westminster, I'm deeply concerned about the pressure they’re under’.
Solving "pressure" on 651 MPs on a decision that affects 66m Brits, 500m EU citizens & the whole world, is more important.
Solving "pressure" on 651 MPs on a decision that affects 66m Brits, 500m EU citizens & the whole world, is more important.
Justin Welby can run rings around me with explaining Salvation, along with the other bits "Im Kreuz ist Leben, Im Kreuz ist Hoffnung" -Life & Hope- but he would be wasting his time. I abandoned religion at an RC monk-run school where I learnt the history of wars: 1066 & All That
Very quickly realised that there were few wars & massacres that weren't started by religion, in fact, the Archbishop's job description is based on religious war ( & Henry VIII's oversized codpiece).
Canterbury & Archbishop have a long tradition of mixing it up in UK political matters such as poor Thomas Becket who got murdered by Henry II's followers after the King had been holding hate speeches. All that history of Warham, Cranmer, Pole, Wolsely & Co en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A…
I suspect Justin has read the "Utopia" work of his colleague, beheaded by HenryVIII for treason, Thomas More, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation - "A little, true book, both beneficial & enjoyable, about how things should be in the new island Utopia"
"More seems to contemplate the duty of philosophers to work around and in real situations and, for the sake of political expediency, work within flawed systems to make them better, rather than hoping to start again from first principles." Not a bad idea when it comes to the EU.
FF to my modern history classes to 1914, conveniently avoiding more "unfortunate" events in recent history as witnessed on Saturday with 100th anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh massacre for which the British Crown & Govt refuse point blank to apologise for.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/wor…
Naturally, we had all been taught the intimate details of the notorious brutallity of 1756, committed by the Indians against the occupying British. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a "rallying call" for us budding "Nationalists"
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In these days of @LiamFox wanting to do overnight FTAs with places like India, he should perhaps consider some history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m…
He may even consider all the wars that the UK has been involved in, some religious but the majority concerning the British love of world dominance. Liam is going to have an interesting time if he gets his "Global Britain" freed from the schackles of EU
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Isn't it wonderfully British to call the recent Northern Ireland war "The Troubles"? Justin Welby no doubt fully behind his protestant brothers & sisters in the DUP on the issue of Brexit & their other despised policies.
I digress. My 1882 Cross - Time of hope for the people of Bavaria, the scene of constant war most recently by Napoleon's & decimation of folk by the Swedes. Much loved, mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria was building Walt Disney castles, German State just had 10th anniversary & peace
Peace in Europe was allowing the industrial revolution to bring new wonderful things to the folk, even if my part of Bavaria, the Allgäu was destroyed of its flax industry, good caring people like Carl Hirnbein were using railways to promote alternatives - milk, cheese & tourism
And for good measure, our dog walk also took us past the railway line from Munich to Zurich, this stretch opened in 1872 & now with considerable Swiss financial help for Germany, is being electrified as part of the EU/Swiss NLRA Trans European infrastructure project.
Weird how a dog walk & a 137 y.o. Cross can lead a Brexit deranged mind to have such disconnected thoughts. I guess it gets some of the anger off my chest. So in the spirit of Holy Week, I ought really to thank Justin Welby but I won't forgive him for his screwed up Brexit views.
Giving credence to Brexit lies & criminal misdoings or even earlier, bringing UK Govts own austerity programme into the same sentence as Brexit, as if to point the blame at EU. Who knows what entry he will have in Wiki list of Archbishops of Canterbury.
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