Christian Values?

I'm trying to ration myself to one political rant a week here on Sleaze Diary, on the basis that there's a limit to how much rage readers can take. But it isn't easy, I can tell you. Not a day goes by without the Tories and their partners in crime the Tory Lickspittles, sorry, Liberal Democrats, doing, saying or proposing some thing that sends me apoplectic. A bit like a left-wing Daily Mail reader, perhaps. But it isn't just them, last week, in the wake of the House of Lords' defeat of the government's abominable attempts to cap welfare payments to the poor and disabled, we had the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, weighing in with some ill judged, idiotic and decidedly un-Christian opinions. Incredibly, he criticised his fellow Bishops for their part in defeating the proposed measures. According to Carey, we need to cap welfare payments as the deficit is all down to the excessive benefit claims of the lower classes! Oh, not to forget that the welfare system is "fuelling vices and impoverishing us all".

I find it extraordinary that someone who presumably follows the teachings of Christ, (he was once the most senior cleric in the Church of England, after all), can believe that the UK's debt is the "greatest moral scandal" facing the country and support measures which put the burden of paying off that debt on the poorest members of society, rather than on the wealthy bankers and financiers who precipitated the current economic crisis. But of course, Carey is one of those 'happy clappy' evangelical idiots who bang their tambourines and believe that the spirit of the Lord is all you need to sustain you. Try telling that o the unemployed. Doubtless Georgie-boy would like to go back to the days when the only poor relief came from the Church, thereby allowing them to ensnare the poor and needy and indoctrinate them with their hypocritical creed. Carey is clearly a throwback to the days when the Church of England was the 'Tory Party at prayer', reinforcing the establishment line and social order under cover of giving succour to the masses. The present Archbishop might be some kind of beardy weirdie hippie, but he's a vast improvement over Carey. I honestly find faux-Christians like Carey amongst the most appalling excuses for human beings I've ever encountered. Frankly, someone needs to take his tambourine and shove it up his holy arse.