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Friday, January 16th, 2015

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Wise Words From Holy Men

Friday, January 16th, 2015

It is not often that this blog agrees with any church. The ethos of these posts is detachment and independent thinking; secular and non-partisan. So it came as something of a surprise to agree with two Archbishops and the Pope on different issues but on the same day.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have jointly written a book about modern social issues in which they highlight the bad consequences of the growing income gap between rich and poor. This has been a theme of this blog for some time, and will be developed further as the general election approaches. So on that issue (not on all) we back the Archbishops.

The Pope became animated in his aircraft en route in his tour of the Far East and declared that he would punch his colleague standing next to him where he to insult the Pope’s mother. He went on to say that freedom of expression did not necessarily include the freedom to insult and make fun of other people’s religious convictions and that the very existence of the freedom to do it imposed a duty of restraint. We agree with that too.