Climate change - as bad a crime as Josef Fritzl?
This is the Bishop of Stafford. And today's burning question is "Why do they do it?" Why are Anglican bishops (in particular) so desperate to claw at public attention that they use the most extreme, inappropriate, tasteless analogies to make their point? In the whole history and literature of Christianity, is there nothing else they can draw on? Or are they compelled to leap on the bandwagon of the latest (preferably sexual) atrocity?
The Bishop, Gordon Mursell, wrote in a parish letter that people who don't confront global warming are almost "as guilty" as Josef Fritzl. Who imprisoned his daughter for over twenty years, raped her repeatedly, bore damaged children by her and kept the lot in a cellar with insufficient air and no natural light. His argument is that "future generations will be left in a futureless world" like the Fritzl prisoners, if we don't "face the truth" about manmade global warming.
He tried to row back a bit later, as The Times reports, saying it was just an "extreme form" of a selfish philosophy of life: a philosophy common to Fritzl and to those who - I suppose - drive cars and don't recycle enough. But by his logic, the Church should be condemning as dreadful sinners all those past generations who left us ills from asbestosis to ill-designed housing and chemical pollution; not to mention all those Lord Bishops whose palaces cost a fortune while the poor starved in the streets....
