Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has apparently decided that the Good Samaritan was a naive do-gooder who would have done better to give the striken man on the roadside another good kicking. The greatest moral dilemma facing the country, according to this fine example of Christian rectitude, is not crime, drugs or even sex before marriage but the £1 trillion deficit. Ian Duncan Smith, he tells us, is a good Christian whose only wish is to the teach those on benefits to embrace the Godliness of self-reliance and introduce them to the glory of absolute poverty. Nor should people look to the state, and taxpayers, for help. Instead they should throw themselves on the mercy of Christian millionaires and look for charity. The most important thing, apparently, is not feeding the poor, but to offer them hope which, if it doesn't fill empty stomachs, will at least give them something to look forward to. Not a word about the greedy rich who clutch their wealth and privilege close to their chests, or the life chances that have been witheld by a selfish elite. Not a word against the skewed morality that puts profits before the wellbeing of others. It's as if Jesus Christ had stormed into the Temple in Jerusalem, lectured everyone on the benefits of Roman rule, demanded that the money-changers make more profit and told the lepers to go and get a job. If this is what Tory Christianity looks like it's high time we all went back to Paganism.
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