From the DW:
“UK: Archbishop of Canterbury
apologizes for comparing climate change to Holocaust”
The most senior cleric in the
Church of England apologized for having compared the impact of climate change
to the Holocaust. Justin Welby had said politicians' inaction over climate
change was akin to genocide. Justin Welby apologized for making the Nazi
comparison to highlight the impact of changes in climate The Archbishop of
Canterbury on Monday said he was "unequivocally" sorry for suggesting
that failure to stop climate change could bring about as grave a result as that
of Nazi war crimes. Justin Welby said he meant to highlight the gravity of
global warming as world leaders met in Scotland to discuss action on climate
change at the COP26 summit. He was wrong to draw a comparison with Nazi
atrocities, he added.
The Holocaust came close to
wiping out the entire Jewish population in Europe. Before the Nazi takeover of
power in 1933, Europe had a vibrant, established, and diverse Jewish culture.
By 1945, most European Jews — two out of every three — had been killed. Welby
told the BBC that world leaders would be "cursed" if they didn't
urgently find ways to reverse climate change.
Calls for Welby to step down Justin
Welby, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, told the BBC that
politicians who failed to find solutions to climate change would go down
"in far stronger terms than we speak today of the politicians of the
(19)30s, of the politicians who ignored what was happening in Nazi
Germany." Welby said that was because climate change "will
kill people all around the world for generations" and that it would
"allow a genocide of an infinitely greater scale." Climate
change would come "back to us or to our children and grandchildren,"
Welby added.
Stephen Pollard, editor of the
Jewish Chronicle newspaper, reacted furiously to comparisons drawn with Nazi
war crimes. "If this is as reported it is so sickening that I simply
cannot comprehend how Welby can remain as a priest, let alone Archbishop,"
Pollar tweeted. Welby, a former oil executive, then apologized for having made
the comparison, saying that he "unequivocally" apologized for the
words he used when trying to emphasize the gravity of climate change. "I'm
sorry for the offence caused to Jews by these words," he added. Pollard
later tweeted to say the apology was sincere and it was time to move on from
the incident.
^ This is a Senior Leader of the Protestant Anglican Church (the Highest is the Queen Herself) and even he is ignorant about the Holocaust.
His comments comparing the Holocaust to Climate
Change is the same kind of ignorance made by people who compare Mask Mandates
and Vaccine Mandates to the Holocaust.
Being a Senior Religious leader
his words carry more weight than that of others and he has just given the
Anti-Semites and the Holocaust Deniers around the UK and the world the added
drive they desire with his baseless and dumb comment.
He has literally made things much
worse for Jews and those trying to educate people about the Holocaust - a subject that more than half the world’s
population already knows little to nothing about.
He supposedly studied History at
the University of Cambridge. Maybe he needs a refresher course on the Holocaust
and the murder of 6 million Jews as well as a course on words having meaning.
Sometimes it is better to think
before you speak and if you can’t do that then the next best thing is to just
shut-up. Silence is better than ignorance. ^
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