Wayside Cross 1882

"Im Kreuz ist Heil" - "In the Cross is Salvation".

Today I laid into the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who on Friday had given a TV interview.

In this holiest of holy weeks in the Christian Calendar with the Cross of Jesus playing the staring role, Justin Welby deems the Salvation from chaos amongst his flock will be solved by simply accepting Brexit despite the "ills" all being human - lies & fraud.

He justifies acceptance of sins on the basis that 'I think there is a lot of fear in Westminster, I'm deeply concerned about the pressure they’re under’.

Solving "pressure" on 651 well-paid MPs on a decision that affects 66m Brits, 500m EU citizens & the whole world, is justification enough he claims.

Canterbury & Archbishop have a long tradition of mixing it up in UK political matters such as poor Thomas Becket who got murdered by Henry II's followers after the King had been holding hate speeches. All that history of Warham, Cranmer, Pole, Wolsely & C.

I suspect Justin has read the "Utopia" work of his colleague, beheaded by HenryVIII for treason, Thomas More, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation - "A little, true book, both beneficial & enjoyable, about how things should be in the new island Utopia"

Justin can run rings around me on theology & probably just about everything else but I don't agree with him on this issue.

Seen on the evening walk. 1882: Time of hope for the people of Bavaria, the scene of constant war most recently by Napoleon's & decimation of folk by the Swedes. Much loved, mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria was building Walt Disney castles, German State just had 10th anniversary & peace. Peace in Europe was allowing the industrial revolution to bring new wonderful things to the folk, even if my part of Bavaria, the Allgäu was destroyed of its flax industry, good caring people like Carl Hirnbein were using railways to promote alternatives - milk, cheese & tourism.
Our walk took us alongside the rail track & a passing train,

Peace is not something that comes up much on the Brexit schedule.