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- Oct 1, 2001
This is crazy. Make sure you read this article. Disney does not corrupt children. Children need something like to Disney to look forward to in their lives. Their is so much mess out in this world and Disney helps us to get away from things like this. Disney is a safe place for children and a place where even grown adults can come feel like children again. This article made me mad.
LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - The likely future spiritual head of the Church of England launched a blistering attack against the consumer society on Tuesday, saying it corrupted the young and made them prematurely sexually aware.
Entertainment giant Walt Disney Co (DIS), child talent shows and computer games came under particularly heavy fire from Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Wales and favourite to be named on Tuesday the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans.
A government source said this week news on the appointment of the new Archbishop -- the subject of intense religious debate and media speculation in the last few months -- would come before Parliament breaks for summer recess on Wednesday.
In a book serialised in the London Times newspaper this week, Williams hit out at children's talent shows and electronic games, which he says typify modern society's unashamed perception of the young as merely another type of consumer.
"Anything but innocuous is the conscription of children into fetishistic hysteria of style wars," Williams wrote.
"It is still mercifully rare to murder for a pair of trainers, or to commit suicide because of an inability to keep up with peer group fashion; but what can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession?"
"The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism," he said.
He also argues that the growing trend towards talent and beauty shows for youngsters puts pressure on children to become sexual objects at too early an age.
Born in Wales in 1950, Williams became Oxford University's youngest theology professor at 36, was enthroned as Bishop of Monmouth in 1992 and elected Archbishop of Wales in 2000.
A talented linguist, he would become the first Archbishop of Canterbury from outside England since the church's 16th century breakaway from Rome.
Liberals in the church have backed Williams, a well-known fan of U.S. cartoon satire 'The Simpsons', while traditionalists have railed against his tolerance of homosexual clergy.
Besides his attack on consumer society, Williams is likely to create further waves with his support of women bishops, his open criticism of the Afghanistan conflict and his dismissal of any plans for a U.S. invasion of Iraq as immoral.
LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - The likely future spiritual head of the Church of England launched a blistering attack against the consumer society on Tuesday, saying it corrupted the young and made them prematurely sexually aware.
Entertainment giant Walt Disney Co (DIS), child talent shows and computer games came under particularly heavy fire from Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Wales and favourite to be named on Tuesday the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans.
A government source said this week news on the appointment of the new Archbishop -- the subject of intense religious debate and media speculation in the last few months -- would come before Parliament breaks for summer recess on Wednesday.
In a book serialised in the London Times newspaper this week, Williams hit out at children's talent shows and electronic games, which he says typify modern society's unashamed perception of the young as merely another type of consumer.
"Anything but innocuous is the conscription of children into fetishistic hysteria of style wars," Williams wrote.
"It is still mercifully rare to murder for a pair of trainers, or to commit suicide because of an inability to keep up with peer group fashion; but what can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession?"
"The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism," he said.
He also argues that the growing trend towards talent and beauty shows for youngsters puts pressure on children to become sexual objects at too early an age.
Born in Wales in 1950, Williams became Oxford University's youngest theology professor at 36, was enthroned as Bishop of Monmouth in 1992 and elected Archbishop of Wales in 2000.
A talented linguist, he would become the first Archbishop of Canterbury from outside England since the church's 16th century breakaway from Rome.
Liberals in the church have backed Williams, a well-known fan of U.S. cartoon satire 'The Simpsons', while traditionalists have railed against his tolerance of homosexual clergy.
Besides his attack on consumer society, Williams is likely to create further waves with his support of women bishops, his open criticism of the Afghanistan conflict and his dismissal of any plans for a U.S. invasion of Iraq as immoral.
