Bishop Babble

(Fox News) - The archbishop of Canterbury has compared the British government's response to the economic downturn to Nazi Germany.

Dr. Rowan Williams is not immune to controversy. In the past he has said Islamic Sharia law should be incorporated into the British legal system, has suggested reparations for the slave trade, and under his stewardship the Church of England almost split in two over the ordination of gay clergy.

Now he writes in the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the Nazi's pursued a principle that "a lot of people that you might have thought mattered as human beings actually didn't."

He says similarly, the British administration fails to take account of "particular human costs." Adding, "Without these anxieties about the specific costs, we've lost the essential moral compass."