{"id":1672,"date":"2006-05-25T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/peter-hitchens-on-bishops.html"},"modified":"2006-05-25T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T12:39:06","slug":"peter-hitchens-on-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/peter-hitchens-on-bishops.html","title":{"rendered":"(Peter) Hitchens on bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raging anti-religionist Christopher HItchens has a deeply traditional Anglican brother, Peter, <\/a>whose latest for the Daily Mail takes some bishops to task:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here’s what we should really be worrying about: the dismal conditions of the British ‘poor’ are often the result of their moral and educational deprivation, and of the collapse of order – not lack of money. Teenage single mothers, with no real experience of child rearing or housekeeping, struggle to provide for their children because they do not know how, not because they do not have enough money. Their lives are often made worse by the moral squalor resulting from the collapse of stable family life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The moral conditions on the worst housing estates, conditions which lead to women being battered and children being abused, also create a tyranny of crime and drugs. These circumstances make it incredibly hard to raise a happy and well-behaved next generation<\/p>\n

So, if you were a Bishop, what would you be worried about? Would you get involved in an essentially political argument about income gaps and taxation? Would you make headline-catching criticisms of vulgar wealth? Would you put your name to yet another dreary politically correct tract, to join all the other standard-issue, half-baked leftist whingeing that has got us more or less where we are? <\/p>\n

Or would you address the moral collapse of our society which is so very much more important, and which is actually so much more your business?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Via Relapsed Catholic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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