The head of the Anglican Church advised Blair to learn from Dostoevsky's
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams spoke again criticized former Prime Minister Tony Blair for their war started in Iraq, writes The Guardian.
Addressing a lecture on Fyodor Dostoevsky, the head of the Anglican Church said that he believed Mr Blair "one of the most nedostoevskih" character of Great Britain. Archbishop explained that the former prime minister lacks the capacity for self-reflection inherent to the heroes of Russian writer.
Chief Hierarch of the Church of the UK government has previously criticized Blair, saying that the former Prime Minister in his address at a public trial of the invasion of Iraq turned to God, but did not succeed in recognizing their own mistakes.
Questioning of Tony Blair held on January 29. It former head of the government, in particular, stated that he feels responsible, but no regrets about the beginning of the Iraq campaign, in which Saddam Hussein was overthrown. Then the group of relatives who died in Iraq, British soldiers came the cry of "Come on!"
Elected Archbishop of Canterbury in 2003, a native of Wales, Rowan Williams, known for a number of its controversial statements and decisions. In particular, the earlier he equated same-sex unions to marriage, advocated the construction of a priest of women and called a number of provisions of the Christian religion as "offensive" to Muslims. His activities aroused the protests of many priests. In 2008, the bishops of the Anglican Church in 1300 even threatened to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, which almost led to a split in the state church of Great Britain.
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