New Archbishop of Canterbury

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Elton John has let himself go!
 
stonerblue said:
What happened to the last one..?
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"Justin Welby was AoC 105 and the issue of 'Safeguarding' which forced his resignation will loom large in the public’s mind when 106 is announced. The new Archbishop’s first order of business will be defending their own record. The Crown Nomination Committee, led by a former spy-chief, Lord Evans of Weardale, will be conscious of this, and whoever is chosen will have been carefully vetted. Any blemish that is uncovered after the announcement, though, will have the potential to scupper the ship before it is out of the harbour." (Church Times)
 
johnny crossan said:
Appropriate first comment for this largely godless place - the reflection of a culture in steep decline after rejecting many traditional Christian values.
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Our culture is not in steep decline. Compared to almost any other period, our culture is alive and well. Most of all we care more now for lame ducks, oppressed minorities, children etc.
One Christian virtue was to lock up gay people, for example. The C of E flourished at a time when we allowed small children to work long hours in factories. People have been moaning about societal decline since the year dot. Read some Herodotus for example.
Ah yes, the good old days.
 
KS55 said:
Our culture is not in steep decline. Compared to almost any other period, our culture is alive and well. Most of all we care more now for lame ducks, oppressed minorities, children etc.
One Christian virtue was to lock up gay people, for example. The C of E flourished at a time when we allowed small children to work long hours in factories.
Ah yes, the good old days.
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To be fair a quick walk around Manchester specially piccadilly you can see the soup of despair without a decent crust in sight to dip into it.

Our culture is in the toilet mate, common purpose/ a moral code is needed because without it we are pissing our very existence up the wall.
 
mexico1970 said:
To be fair a quick walk around Manchester specially piccadilly you can see the soup of despair without a decent crust in sight to dip into it.

Our culture is in the toilet mate, common purpose/ a moral code is needed because without it we are pissing our very existence up the wall.
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Piccadilly gardens is not the epitome of our culture, but it is a failing.
Our culture is much more typified by the forcing out of the last AoC who covered up child abuse. A generation ago, he would have just carried on and we would have been none the wiser.
The child abuse gangs got away with it due to a reluctance to talk about it and inaction by the police and others. That has changed for the better.
A party leader could not today say: “So Cyril Smith smacked a few bottoms, so what?”
The perception of steep decline is well wide of the mark.
 
KS55 said:
Piccadilly gardens is not the epitome of our culture, but it is a failing.
Our culture is much more typified by the forcing out of the last AoC who covered up child abuse. A generation ago, he would have just carried on and we would have been none the wiser.
The child abuse gangs got away with it due to a reluctance to talk about it and inaction by the police and others. That has changed for the better.
A party leader could not today say: “So Cyril Smith smacked a few bottoms, so what?”
The perception of steep decline is well wide of the mark.
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We will agree to disagree, a vegetable soup of diverse morons does not a society make.

Without common purpose we are fucked and we are already half way there.
 
The people I know seem happy with the choice. She’s in for a tough time though. There’s a lot to sort out including outside perception.

Not sure the decay of society is relevant to this thread, but to each their own.
 
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