Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said his country has become a nation of “fatso”, calling out church leaders who “fart about things like Brexit” without worrying about junk food. The department is blaming it.
Mr Johnson, whose weight has fluctuated over the years, accused the Church of England of ignoring “people's spiritual needs” and encouraged parishioners to load up on baked goods.
“You're talking about living bread, which is spiritual sustenance, and it's not being provided by a flowering church. That's all I can say,” Johnson told the study's authors. told. National report on obesity We interviewed 20 British political leaders, including three former prime ministers.
Mr Johnson blamed the rise in obesity among children because they were “sitting behind screens and being told it's too dangerous to go outside”.
“When I was growing up, it was unusual to have a fat person in your class,” he says. “Now they're all fat. You get shot if you call them fat, but that's the truth.”
He said older people “are becoming more sedentary because of technology” and argued that clergy should focus on the issue and its impact.
“Instead of talking about slave reparations, the Archbishop of Canterbury should ask himself why people in this country are so fat,” he said of Justin Welby, who recently resigned.
“And the Archbishop of Canterbury and religious leaders should seek to fill the clearly painful spiritual void in people's lives that is driving them to binge-eat,” he said.
A Church of England spokeswoman said Mr Welby had no comment on Mr Johnson's comments.
Mr Welby announced earlier this month that he was resigning following reports that his handling of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal more than a decade ago was inadequate. The church subsequently announced that Mr. Welby would step down on January 6th.
