Bishop hails investment in BAE future
The Bishop of Blackburn has hailed the “huge investment” made by BAE Systems into its next generation of workers.
The Rt Rev Julian Henderson, who arrived as the head of the Anglican Diocese for Lancashire in October, visited the company’s sites in Warton and Samlesbury during a day-long visit which also took a look around the firm’s training centre in Preston.
He met some of the latest intake of apprentices who are spending the first 12 months of their training at the centre before visiting different parts of the business which employs more than 10,000 people.
The Bishop said: “Seeing the enthusiasm which the apprentices tackle their training was great to see.
“They get the opportunity to see the company from the bottom upwards and it seems to me this is a great way to get to know a profession. It is so important we continue to invest in our young people and for BAE Systems it is a huge investment in its future.”
During the visit, the Bishop attended the company’s site at Samlesbury before finishing his tour at Warton where he visited the Typhoon final assembly line and Hawk manufacturing facility to look at the aircraft which the RAF fly in frontline action and to train their pilots of the future.
That, of course, would be the Rt Rev Julian Henderson of BAe investors, the Church of England who, let us not forget have a vested interest in Armageddon.
I have always had a problem with Christian involvement in any aspect of war. It's a bit trite to say it but the fifth, sixth or seventh commandment, depending on which bit of the Bible is being referenced, states, 'thou shalt not kill' not 'thou shalt not kill but...' or, 'thou shalt not kill except...' It's amazing how flexible the clergy can be when interpreting the Word of God.
I used to work with a Christian whose equally Christian husband worked at this very same factory yet did not see any conflict of interest. When I started to reel off the atrocities which have been carried out using machinery which was manufactured by British Aerospace such as the napalming of villagers in East Timor by the Suharto regime of Indonesia in the 1980s which was regarded by many scholars as genocide, I was told that they had children and 'had to put food on the table'.
Well, first of all, the woman was senior to me and therefore better paid than me. Secondly, it was during a period when things were very different to the current situation and there were other jobs with other companies which an engineer could easily have found. But thirdly, British Aerospace workers are paid extremely well, largely because of the contracts with very wealthy tyrannies around the globe - so one must wonder exactly what kind of food was being being put on what kind of table.
Do these people not have a fucking brain? Oh, yes, that's a very well made spigot, you have there. I can just visualise its purpose in the mechanism which efficiently releases the payload of lethal weaponry upon foreign brown people as they dig in the dirt foraging for food.
They disgust me. And no amount of repeated views of Major Barbara is going to make me think any differently even to grasp the irony. They are supposed to be the agents of our creator and are blessing the instruments of mass murder. It is hardly possible to escape the conclusion that hypocrisy is not something which concerns them.
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