Amritsar - Virtue Signalling Archbishop's Grovelling Apology

Here we go again. Just months after then Prime Minister, Theresa May, did so in Parliament yet another prominent British figure feels the need to apologize for the Amritsar Massacre perpetrated by a rogue British general during the British Raj in 1919.

Not content with laying a wreath and whispering a silent prayer in remembrance, the head of the world Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, turned virtue signaling to an embarrassing display of undignified groveling. (See here)

Prostrating himself face down before the memorial plinth was over the top even for an agenda driven Archbishop who is more concerned with things temporal than things spiritual such as saving souls and preparing them for eternity.

One is bound to ask what is it about that terrible event in Amritsar a century ago that compels politicians to keep apologizing for it when British colonial history is littered with similar atrocities, particularly in Africa?

The answer is simple; being the cynical, duplicitous people that they are, politicians recognise that the Indian diaspora in Great Britain is a significant voting block that can swing an election whereas the African diaspora is not.

Like the Roman Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, Archbishop Welby is a left-wing activist who is not shy to make public his support for socialist causes or his fanatical support for the undemocratic tyranny that the European Union has become.

This support for ‘progressive’ causes includes the Islamisation of Great Britain regardless of its barbaric practices or its goal of subjugating Christians and Jews or, failing that, killing them.

For a global church leader the Archbishop appears to be ignorant of events worldwide where his fellow Christians are being systematically erased by Muslims from areas they have lived in since the dawn of Christianity.

Ancient Christian communities are being erased from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Across Africa from Mali and Nigeria in the west to Kenya, Sudan and Somalia in the east, Christians are being enslaved and slaughtered in their tens of thousands. As far afield as Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines Christians are being slaughtered by the so-called religion of peace that the Archbishop champions. (List of Islamic terror attacks against Christians here) 

Apart from the Archbishop and the Pope, it is acknowledged around the world that Christianity is now the most persecuted religion on the planet. Even the governments in the predominantly Judeo-Christian continents of Europe and America, Christianity is being vilified and removed from the public square. 

If he took a short walk from his residence at Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Welby could prostrate himself face down on Westminster Bridge where an adherent of Islam murdered four innocent civilians or have his chauffeur drive him to London Bridge, Tavistock Square, Aldgate, Manchester Arena and elsewhere in his home country where Muslims have murdered innocents in the name of Allah, as commanded by their prophet and in accordance with their holy book, the Koran.

As we commemorate the eighteenth anniversary of the World Trade Centre atrocity where Muslims murdered almost three thousand people and injured a further six thousand, it is incumbent upon the Archbishop to make the pilgrimage and prostrate himself face down at Ground Zero or else the world might think his theatrical performance in Amritsar was a nothing other than a virtue signaling publicity stunt.

To conclude: While Archbishop Welby is virtue signaling and apologizing for events from a century ago he is ignoring the fact that his flock at home is dwindling and his empty churches are decaying into dereliction or being turned into warehouses, vehicle workshops and mosques or demolished at the behest of land developers.

It appears that disparaging one’s own country and apologizing for events in history is the in thing to do for the new ‘woke’ generation of political leaders, including Barack Obama, and high-profile personalities like the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope of Rome.

A previous article on the Amritsar apology circus here 

Scandal Of Poverty Pimp Church Leaders Encouraging Welfare Dependency

The timing of the intervention of British church leaders into the welfare debate couldn't have been more perfect, nor can their residence in cloud cuckoo land be more apparent. I would humbly suggest that these spiritual leaders take up reading the Bible instead of  the Communist Manifesto and spend more time saving souls for the hereafter rather than increasing welfare dependency in the here and now.

At a time when the UN released its report into human rights abuses, including the persecution of Christians, in that socialist paradise known as North Korea and with the Venezuelan and Ukrainian people rising up against their socialist oppressors, the church leaders in Great Britain are calling for more socialism.

One of the scourges of modern Britain and the main driver of crime, violence and domestic strife is welfare dependency. I have deliberately excluded poverty at this point in the essay because the word itself is being deliberately misused.

The agenda driven political class, and now the clergy, use the term 'relative poverty' despite the material goods partaken of by the so called 'poor'. This creates an illusion of poverty and thus helps guarantee a constituency of loyal voters using the deadly sin of envy. (More on the use of relative poverty later)

Church leaders have taken to promoting their new socialist creed on the television or in the media for the simple reason that if they restricted it to sermons in their churches nobody would get the message. Preaching to an empty church can be dispiriting so in order to raise their spirits and keep what semblance relevance they have left, church leaders are promoting 'free stuff' for the so called 'poor'.

It is becoming more obvious with every utterance from our richly adorned bishops and priests that they have taken a leaf out of the socialist handbook by promoting welfare dependency and actively appealing to the feckless in order to justify their existence.

Following on from the openly Marxist former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and his equally left wing successor, Justin Welby, the leader of Great Britain's Roman Catholics has jumped on the 'poverty' bandwagon also.

Not to be outdone by his Anglican counterparts the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nicholas, has expressed his opposition to welfare reforms in concert with twenty six Bishops and leaders from the Methodists, Quakers and Reformed Churches.

(See a previous post on Marxist theologian Rowan 'The Hippy' Williams here)

 By exaggerating the scale of the problem and indulging in emotive language these unscrupulous so called holy men are behaving like poverty pimps who would rather see people languishing on welfare handouts instead of having the dignity that comes with work and supporting themselves.

It is unbecoming of the men of God to be joining the propagandists of the left, led by the BBC, to portray Great Britain as mired in Dickensian or third world levels of poverty and destitution. It simply isn't true. It would be foolish to deny that there is poverty but it is not as widespread and desperate as the agenda driven left and the clergy would have us all believe.

In an overtly party political outpouring, the men of God are saying that "welfare reform is a national crisis causing malnutrition and poverty because of delay and punitive sanctions against benefit claimants."

To intimate that the government is reforming welfare out malice or spite or to deliberately harm poor people is outrageous, it is also a disgraceful exaggeration bordering on outright lying. The clergymen involved in this willful deceit need to get into that confessional box at the earliest opportunity and seek absolution for their sins.

It must be borne in mind that one of the reforms they are referring to consists of limiting of welfare benefit 'entitlements' to five hundred pounds per week for which claimants don't even have to get out of bed. That's around eight hundred dollars per week to our American friends. Nice work if you can get it.

"People are having to choose between heating or eating" claim the holy men of God. They fail to mention that the government has deliberately inflated heating bills in order to fight Man Made Global Warming, now renamed as 'Combating Climate Change'.

Sensible people on the planet have come to accept that this is a new religion for the gullible and the emotionally vulnerable which uses environmentalism to mask the imposition of global socialism. The men of God really shouldn't be indulging in this kind of willful deception if they want to go to heaven.

Those of us who have actual experience of living among benefit claimants would have worded that statement differently in the interests of accuracy. "People are having to choose between eating or smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, gambling, smoking dope and having babies", would be much more applicable.
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If this comes across as cruel or exaggerated  then I suggest that cynics, hand wringing lefties and Christ's vicars on earth read this article by the BBC's favourite whinging, whining lefty, Yasmin Alibai-Brown.

The corrosive effect of idleness and welfare dependency on the human spirit is obviously deemed acceptable by the clergy and infinitely more preferable to their client group than working for a living and supporting themselves and their families.

Moving people from idleness and dependency into work is what welfare reform is intended to achieve, so who but agenda driven socialists and cynical poverty pimps would oppose that noble ideal.

The existence of welfare benefit ghettos is a disgrace to humanity therefore one would expect the clergy to support any attempt to reform a broken system that encourages their continuation.

More information on welfare ghettos, where half of all adults are on benefits, here.

To conclude, it is worth noting that the poverty referred to by the political establishment is not actual poverty but 'relative poverty'.

This is a measure conjured up to justify redistribution of wealth which could have thought up by Karl Marx himself. As with everything Marxist they can't even get that right - they now try to exclude better off people from the equation in order to facilitate the continued use of the word 'poverty', without which they have no reason to exist.

Using this measure in wealthier countries with a higher levels of income, such as Dubai, would require people with all the trappings of prosperity to be classed as poor. This is plainly ridiculous therefore poverty is now classed as sixty percent of the median.

It is vitally important that the agenda driven redistributors of wealth continue to have the word 'poverty' available for justification purposes regardless of its accuracy. Using their own measure, the poorest people in Great Britain are prosperous compared to their counterparts in developing countries.

They could equally use the term 'relative prosperity' as it means the same thing but it couldn't be used by the poverty industry to justify redistribution.

Poverty in Great Britain could be eliminated or at least vastly reduced simply by getting rid of the spin and redefining it:

People are not in poverty if they live in a house.

People are not in poverty if they smoke, drink alcohol, gamble or take drugs.

People are not in poverty if they are overweight through eating junk food.

People are not in poverty if they eat out at all.

People are not in poverty if they take vacations.

People are not in poverty if they own a flat screen TV's,  Xbox's, mobile IPhones, designer clothes or sneakers.

People are not in poverty if they have lots of babies.

And so on and so forth. They are not poor in the real sense, they just have less 'stuff' than people whom earn more.

This list would result in poverty being eliminated or at least astronomically reduced overnight but it would also cause palpitations and exploding heads among the hand wringing, bleeding heart socialist poverty pimps that infest British political life like a disease.

For those who live in the real world this is what poverty looks like.

My near neighbours in Nairobi's Kabira slums.

My near neighbours near Santa Cruz, Bombay.

My very near neighbours in Kapishera, New Delhi, more here and here.

The Archbishop of Canterbury lives here in Lambeth Place.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster has decided not to sell his country residence.

Fighting Back Against Islam - Buddhist Monk Walks Where Archbishops Fear To Tread

It didn't take long for the people to find out that the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is a Marxist theologian following in the footsteps of the last 'progressive' vicar of Christ to hold the post.

Justin Welby and his predecessor, Rowan Williams, are now notorious for their support of all things 'progressive', from income redistribution and increasing welfare dependency to homosexual priests and multi-culturalism.

It's hard to find anywhere in these two holy men's pronouncements any references to the Christianity they claim to represent. Its even harder to find any pronouncements condemning the excesses of Islam both home and abroad.

At home the two vicars of Christ, being on a superior spiritual plane to the rest of the people, conveniently turn a blind eye to Muslim leaders openly declaring jihad against a Christian Great Britain. They also choose to ignore these same leaders declaring that whole areas of some cities, which are supposedly under their own Christian jurisdiction, to be infidel free zones subject to Sharia law.

They also turn a blind eye to the standard Islamic behavior of spousal abuse, child abuse, paedophilia, the public murder of infidels, suicide bombing or the worshiping of death like civilized people worship life.

On events abroad, they can barely muster a comment on the horrific holocaust being waged against their Christian brothers and sisters in Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Indonesia, the Philippines etc. Christian men, women and children being butchered and sometimes burned alive in their homes and churches.

To the two holy men of Britain, these atrocities against their fellow Christians don't appear to deserve the same priority as the sin of capping welfare payments or making work pay. Protesting the deadly sin of reducing government dependency takes a higher priority than protesting the slaughtering of Christians abroad, even though reducing dependency improves the human condition and restores dignity to the unemployed.

Like all other Marxists their minds are closed to any alternatives to their discredited ideology.

Its a sad state of affairs when it is left to a Buddhist monk, who has lived his life under the oppressive tyranny of the military dictatorship in Burma (Myanmar), to see the reality of Muslim global intentions and to speak the truth to the world, while at the same time taking the fight peacefully to the enemy in his country.

U Wirathu is awake to the danger posed to his culture and religion by a desert death cult which declares that everyone on the planet must be subservient to Islam or risk death by beheading and he is not prepared to stand idly by and let it happen.

'Progressives' and dhimmi's in the West are not going to let the noble monk get away with it and they have started their predictable tactics of demonization and smear campaigns. They are also blaming the Buddhist/Muslim violence in Burma on him, accusing him of being the Buddhist bin Laden.

Wirathu is accused of inciting violence with his sermons, but unlike his Muslim counterparts, he doesn't preach a Buddhist jihad, suicide bombing, martyrdom and virgins or the worshiping of death over life.

"I believe Islam is a threat not just to Buddhism but for the people and the country and the religion", he is quoted a saying. "The growth of Islam is putting Buddhism and Burmese culture at risk" he truthfully says.

Wirathu insists that "it is vital that Buddhist people keep their business relationships and land dealings away from Muslims because he fears their population will get bigger than ours and Sharia law will take over". This true statement will send Western 'progressives' and dhimmi's  apoplectic with faux outrage.

The fact is that this Buddhist monk has seen the disastrous results of continually giving in to the demands of Muslims in other areas of the world and has realized the danger to his country, his people, his culture and his religion.

Unlike his British and Western counterparts, he is unwilling to turn a blind eye to the Muslim desire of global subservience to their desert death cult and he is speaking up and acting on behalf of his people.

U Wirathu's willingness to put his life on the line to speak the truth is putting the two British vicars of Christ to shame for their cowardice and their unwillingness to put the well being of their flock ahead  of their pursuit of the secular 'progressive' agenda demanded by their perverted ideology.