Cue Pat Robertson for his line "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/80256FA1003E05C1/httpPublicPages/6962349D0C80DDC48025707D004945D4?opendocument
'Be secular', Williams tells Muslims
By Paul Handley
THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury has recommended the European secular state
as a model for Islamic countries. Despite Muslim antagonism to
secularism, Dr Williams maintained that this was the best hope for
avoiding extremism.
Dr Williams was speaking in Lyons at an international meeting of prayer
for peace on Monday. A European secular state with the community of
faith as its critical partner was, he said, "truest to its Christian
roots".
Europe taught that it was possible - and in Dr Williams's view,
desirable - to separate Church and state. "Once you have recognised the
distinction between the Church and any particular political system, you
declare that political systems do not have automatic religious sanction,
and thus that political liberty, plural convictions and practices, are
to be expected in public life, and need balancing and negotiating."
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Merlyn LeRoy
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