Sarx

HE Church of England’s Bishop of Lewes gets it:

I believe that God ultimately has allowed this crisis for good. Our nation, like all the western nations, has become consumed with materialism. It has a stranglehold on our lives. We have found our security in ‘securities’ and have failed to grasp that nothing is permanent other than God. Our confidence has been misplaced. Something was needed to shake that and that is what we are experiencing.

If this shakes our confidence in mammon (money) and forces us back to our creator and redeemer it will have been worth it! That should be our prayers as Christians. We may all have to suffer a bit, but God is an expert at bringing good out of sad, difficult, even evil situations.

Sadly, his flock is not well catechised. But ok.