Dr Rowan Williams said that taxation should not be seen as a way of stifling business or redistributing wealth but helping to make the world a better place in which to live.| Spoken like a man who doesn't pay any ... |
| Let's not work to help the poor, just to impoverish the wealthy and middle-class so as to make everyone 'equal'. Is that Leviticus or Acts of the Apostles? |
The archbishop also claimed reality television gives us "alarming glimpses" of what the world would look like were everyone to be governed by self-interest.
| That bit is true, but unconnected to his main point. |
Few of his statements, from what I've seen have made any sense. Those that have made sense have involved dinner. Poor Christopher Johnson's becoming incoherent just trying to keep up with the vagaries of Anglican self-destruction.
In his latest comments, delivered to the TUC Economics Conference on Monday, he pointed out that the term "economics" derives from a Greek word meaning "housekeeping" and should be about "creating a habitat that we can actually live in".
| So when is the Anglican church selling its treasures to help the poor? |
| Don't be silly. They're holding that as a sacred trust. |
However he said that over the past few decades, the market has been treated as an "independent authority", creating social disruption around the world and the "extraordinary phenomena" of debt trading. Dr Williams claimed that the "fantasies of unlimited growth" had led to a "vicious cycle" in which consumers are encouraged to buy more goods, which also uses up limited energy and raw materials. Instead, he said the economy should be geared towards creating a secure and sustainable environment for families.
| Let 'em stay poor, that way they'll flock to the church and turn over their few coins in the plate. |
As part of this, the archbishop said: "We have to ask about 'green taxes' (including 'green' tax breaks) that will check environmental irresponsibility and build up resources to address the ecological crises that menace us.
| So that everyone can be green. And poor. Except for the bishops. |
| Spoken like a man who understand the need to reach into the till. |
Not like the life of a holy man, lived close to the common folk, empathizing with them, feeling their pain, sharing their triumphs, if any...
He admitted it is not necessary to believe "Christian doctrine" in order to develop a "three-dimensional humanity",
"Certainly not! Why, the Mohammedans have values just as valid as ours, and likely more valid!"
but added: "Politics left to managers and economics left to brokers add up to a recipe for social and environmental chaos.
| Yup, no need to believe in a Christian doctrine. Heck, the archbishop doesn't, so why should you? |