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| Archbishop warns 'greedy' nations | Archbishop warns 'greedy' nations |
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| The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned in his Easter sermon against nations' greed for oil, power and territory. | |
| Dr Rowan Williams said the "comforts and luxuries" we take for granted could not be sustained forever. | Dr Rowan Williams said the "comforts and luxuries" we take for granted could not be sustained forever. |
| He told worshippers we face a culture in which thoughts of death are "too painful to manage". | He told worshippers we face a culture in which thoughts of death are "too painful to manage". |
| But Dr Williams lightened the sermon's tone by reminding people of Christianity's Easter message that death will be overcome. | But Dr Williams lightened the sermon's tone by reminding people of Christianity's Easter message that death will be overcome. |
| 'Inner deadness' | 'Inner deadness' |
| He said death was the end "in an important sense" and urged Christians to prepare for it by constantly striving to let go of "selfish, controlling, greedy habits". | He said death was the end "in an important sense" and urged Christians to prepare for it by constantly striving to let go of "selfish, controlling, greedy habits". |
| The archbishop said: "We face a culture in which the thought of death is too painful to manage. | The archbishop said: "We face a culture in which the thought of death is too painful to manage. |
| "Individuals live in anxious and acquisitive ways, seizing what they can to provide a security that is bound to dissolve, because they are going to die. | "Individuals live in anxious and acquisitive ways, seizing what they can to provide a security that is bound to dissolve, because they are going to die. |
| "Societies or nations do the same. Whether it is the individual grabbing the things of this world in just the repetitive, frustrating sameness that we have seen to be already in fact the mark of an inner deadness... | "Societies or nations do the same. Whether it is the individual grabbing the things of this world in just the repetitive, frustrating sameness that we have seen to be already in fact the mark of an inner deadness... |
| "Or the greed of societies that assume there will always be enough to meet their desires - enough oil, enough power, enough territory - the same fantasy is at work. | "Or the greed of societies that assume there will always be enough to meet their desires - enough oil, enough power, enough territory - the same fantasy is at work. |
| "We shan't really die. We as individuals can't contemplate an end to our acquiring, and we as a culture can't imagine that this civilisation, like all others, will collapse and that what we take for granted about our comforts and luxuries simply can't be sustained indefinitely. | "We shan't really die. We as individuals can't contemplate an end to our acquiring, and we as a culture can't imagine that this civilisation, like all others, will collapse and that what we take for granted about our comforts and luxuries simply can't be sustained indefinitely. |
| "To all this, the church says, sombrely, don't be deceived: night must fall." | "To all this, the church says, sombrely, don't be deceived: night must fall." |