The Battle of the Churches
The two main Christian Churches appear to be fighting some sort of media war: Who can say the most controversial thing and get the most column inches?
This round was kicked off by the Catholic Church, with Cardinal Keith O’Brien denouncing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill as being “monstrous,” “grotesque,” “deathly” and of “Frankenstein proportion”. Oh, and of course just plain immoral. As if non-Catholics can’t possibly have morals.
Fighting back in the media is the previous front-runner after his Sharia law speech, Archbishop Rowan Williams has attacked the “greed” of Western nations. According to him, we are all dead inside because we want to live our lives in a way of our choosing. Has it slipped his mind that he’s head of the Church of England - a powerful Western nation? It seems so.
So what is the Catholic Church going to say in return? Let’s wait and see for the next episode of the Battle of the Churches…
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Can we have a bar chart?
No, because then I’d have to get my ruler out!
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