The Rants of Issachar

I just had a moment where I'm convinced I must be reading the news wrong.

Did the Archibishop of Canterbury really say that bringing parts of sharia into British law was unavoidable? Apparently yes.

I knew I should have had my headphones with me when I was watching TV on the treadmill yesterday. I saw the Archbishop on TV, but I can't really read lips on a tiny screen while running...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that adopting sharia law is a bad idea. I'm sure that there's more nuance to what Mr. Williams said or intended to say, but I would have thought that when being asked about Sharia you might generally comment on how it's incompatible with British law, (or even Western ethics) in many substantial respects. If you're going to behave like a politician, you'd better expect to be questioned like one.

I'm also going to throw it out there that maybe having an official state church is a bad idea. (Or at least a bit of an anachronism). Separation of church and state... Now where have I heard that before?


Unbelievable...



Update: Feb. 19th 6:17pm
Father Raymond De Souza wrote an interesting editorial in the National Post about this. I should have posted it sooner.

Posted by:  Major John

Williams is simply the end result of the path the Anglican Church has taken. They wonder why their congregations in Africa, Australia and the US are considering a schism...

Posted by:  issachar

At this point I think a schism is a matter of "when" not "if". Of course not being Anglican, it doesn't bother me at all.

I'm an evangelical Christian who's perfectly alright with the plethora of denominations. Of course I want them to work together to form a Christian consensus, but I think it became obvious centuries ago that trying to enforce unity in a large organized church tends to result in a departure from Christ's teachings.