Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams has hit out at Donald Trump-style politics for ramping up terrorism fears in a New Year message from Cambridge.

Now Master of Magdalene College at Cambridge, the former leader of the Anglican Church has also sent a message of hope and human kindness.

His message comes after a year in which the world was rocked by the Paris terror, the rise of the so-called Islamic State – and the growing popularity of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump who called for a ban on Muslims entering the US. . . .

For Christians, this season is about how God tells us what he thinks of our human life: it may be a mess, it may be disfigured by terrible suffering and injustice, but it’s still astonishing and worthy of endless respect and delight. God can use human words and actions to say something about eternal love.

“What we actually should be afraid of is any kind of language or action that cheapens human lives and human dignity. We should be afraid of losing our excitement about human life and why it matters. If we resist terrorism internationally and prejudice and suspicion in our own backyards, it’s because we have positive convictions about people, not just because we’re frightened.

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