More exactly, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for “affirming life’s spiritual dimension”.
Last year the Dalai Lama won it. Someone should tell Richard Dawkins that there is big money to be made in “affirming life’s spiritual dimension”.
From here:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won the £1.1m ($1.6m) Templeton Prize for “affirming life’s spiritual dimension”.
Organisers said he was awarded the 2013 prize for his lifelong work advancing spiritual principles such as love and forgiveness that have helped to liberate people around the world.
“Tutu’s international stature rests on the myth that he healed South Africa. But South Africa has not been healed. South Africa is deeply wounded and bleeding to death.” Daniel Greenfield, ‘Desmond Tutu, Godfather of Hell’
He was awarded it for being a lefty. The establishment give each other these awards. The recipients are seldom deserving. Tutu helped destroy South Africa, and turn it into the corrupt, dangerous place that it is today. He made, as far as lay with him, every effort to install a coterie of thugs in control of millions of South Africans. Why anyone should applaud him for so doing I can’t imagine.
This is the man who now thinks it’s ok for Christians to “affirm” homosexuality – am I right? Well all I can say is that he must read a different Bible from the rest of us …