The clown-bishop of Canterbury has struck again:
Discussing differences between the religions, Dr Williams acknowledges that Christian belief in the Trinity is “difficult, sometimes offensive, to Muslims.”
To say something like that is, to put it mildly, idiotic. The Christian belief in these matters is indeed different from the Muslim. Nevertheless, for a prominent churchman to concede publicly that some Muslims find this different belief ’offensive’ (rather than simply incorrect) is a bad mistake. It somehow gives respectability to the notion that the mere expression (or indeed existence) of a belief is in itself ’offensive’ to those who feel a different way. In an age where “offense” is the gateway to censorship that’s a poisonous idea that needs no encouragement. That the Archbishop of Canterbury can, however indirectly, endorse it reminds us yet again of the noxiousness of ‘Sharia’ Williams. Couldn’t some monastery take this overpromoted parson in and give him useful job to do? There must be some vegetable gardens that need tending…