Archbishop of Canterbury endorses terrorism, rejects Christ
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Originally Posted by Sindependent
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, prayed yesterday at the site identified as Jesus's birthplace.
As the archbishops arrived in Bethlehem on a four-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land with two other British church leaders, Dr Williams indicated the clerics also wanted to express solidarity with the sufferings of Palestinians in the city after the latest six years of conflict.
He said: "We are here to say that the sufferings of the people here are ours too. We want to share them, we want to do what we can to alleviate them, and we hope to see a Bethlehem that is open for all pilgrims."
The delegation walked through the main checkpoint separating the city from Jerusalem yesterday, and saw the separation barrier - which in Bethlehem is a nine-metre concrete wall - enclosing it.
Dr Victor Batarseh, Bethlehem's Roman Catholic mayor, says that the barrier has turned Bethlehem into a "prison" and contributed to a steep fall in tourist and pilgrim trade, as well as an already growing exodus of many Christian families from the town.
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The End Times are truly drawing near. The head of the homerish Church of England has united with the Papists to express solidarity with the barbarous Mahommedan rabble bent on the destruction of civilisation and Christianity. The Antichrist is rallying his troops; I beg you, Jesus, return now!
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.