The former archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu sees Osama bin Laden as just another member of "God's family".
That's what archbishop Tutu told the World Council of Churches (WCC) recently, but only after he called for the closure of the detention centre at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay.
Wide sweeping in naming family members on God's behalf, he threw President George W. Bush into the familial mix.
"God's family," according to archbishop Desmond Tutu includes, "Bush, bin Laden, all belong, gay, lesbian, so-called straight-all belong and are loved, are precious."
"Thou shall not kill," seems to have flown out the window as far as this anglican leader is concerned.
"a united church is no optional extra," archbishop Tutu said in a barn-burning speech to the WCC 9th assembly in Porto alegre. "It is indispensable for the salvation of God's world."
all belong to one family, he said: "Jesus was quite serious when he said that God was our father, that we belonged to one family, because in this family all, not some, are insiders."
Expanding on his beliefs to journalists after the speech, he said that Christians "did not have to feel insecure in the face of people from other faiths". He had brought up gay and lesbian people, he said, because "I would not be able to keep quiet and see people penalized for something about which they could do nothing."
Much of the blame for the suffering of the Zimbabwe people belongs to Tutu, for he strongly promoted Robert Mugabe.
The South africa archbishop reiterated his admiration for Mugabe, saying that he had "admired" Mugabe, who was at one time "the brightest star in the african firmament". This admiration, he said, stemmed from Mugabe's having brought reconciliation and reconstruction to his country after the war, which ended the rule of the white minority.
Tutu said nothing about the blacks that have suffered under Mugabe's violent rule.
"But something happened to him (Mugabe)," Tutu said. "Because now he oversees something that is totally unacceptable. We and all of africa, should be prepared to say that violation of human rights is violation of human rights, whoever does it."
Of relations with Muslims, he said, "I hope that the WCC will preach that it is adherents of a faith who are good or bad, not the faith. No faith says, "We believe in injustice or violence."
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