While the Pope, in his Radio 4 talk and again in his Christmas Eve message in Rome, talked of the need to find God and asked people to pray for peace, the Archbishop of Canterbury apparently intends to talk about the rich not bearing their 'fair share' of economic woe.
As an atheist, the words of neither befrocked man carry any weight with me, however, the difference between the two messages is striking. One has given an overtly religious message while the other will give an overtly political one.
This will not be the first time that the bewhiskered man from Canterbury has strayed well beyond his realm. His pronouncements on all things political, and always from a socialist viewpoint, have become commonplace and are unwelcome. It is high time that this cleric was slapped down, and returned to his appointed role as leader of the Church of England, not his self-appointed one as the Nation's left-wing conscience.
If I was a Christian, I'd want to be in a church that talked of religion and not politics. The choice for those many Church of England waverers has become so much clearer this Christmas.
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