US EditionBoris Johnson is right: the Church is partly to blame for obesity crisis
- Boris Johnson has accused the Church of England for Britain's obesity crisis, claiming its failure to provide "spiritual sustenance" leads people to "gorge themselves."
- He stated that children experience higher obesity rates due to being told there are "paedophiles everywhere."
- Johnson suggested that the Archbishop of Canterbury should address people's spiritual needs to help combat obesity.
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Boris Johnson blames Church of England for obesity crisis
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson blames the Church of England for the country's obesity rates, on the basis that the lack of spiritual nourishment leads people to binge eat. The obvious projection—Boris being an overweight atheist or agnostic with a history of briefly-held religious poses—is really just a way of complaining about black people, contemporary risk aversion and all the other things conservatives hate. — Read the rest The po…
Boris Johnson blames Britain's obesity crisis on the Church of England
Boris Johnson says the Church of England is to blame for Britain’s obesity crisis because it has failed to provide people with “spiritual sustenance”. The former prime minister said that in his youth, it was “very rare for there to be a fatso in the class. Now they’re all fatsos, and I’d be shot for saying they’re fatsos, but it’s the truth.” Criticising the head of the Church of England Justin Welby, Johnson also hit out at a host of other rel…
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