And continues to get it wrong. This time it’s the archbishop of York, John Sentamu, who tells us that inequality, specifically income inequality, has caused, among other things, violence, drug abuse, “self-harm” and mental illness.
Why does a church whose prescription for alleviating humanity’s angst ought to be spiritual, centred on personal sin and redemption through Christ, peddle materialistic leftist twaddle instead?
Is it ashamed of its own Gospel? Has it replaced the message of salvation with the message of social engineering?
What is particularly risible about John Sentamu’s faith in equality, is that only totalitarianism can make people equal: in practice, equally miserable, squalid, impoverished, brutalised and hellish.
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Drug abuse and violence are rife. Mental illness seems to have become more common, not simply better recognised, over the last generation or so. Rates of self-harm among teenage girls are also high and seem to be increasing. Personal debt has hit a record high.
So what has gone wrong? What has caused the loss of paradise? David Cameron said two years ago: “Research by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, in The Spirit Level, has shown that among the richest countries, it’s the more unequal ones that do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator.”
