Christian faith centres on giving up the claim to be yourself at everyone else’s expense...

What a tendentious and generally problematic pronouncement.

“Love your neighbour as yourself"

Yes. But what does it mean to love yourself?

As Ayn Rand famously put it, "To say 'I love you,' one must know first how to say the 'I.'"

Hence this about love:

It is the view that you ought to be given love unconditionally -- the view that you do not deserve it any more than some random bum, the view that it is not a response to anything particular in you, the view that it is causeless -- which exemplifies the most ignoble conception of this sublime experience.

Such fascinating thoughts about the most basic spiritual and existential human principles arise because our old friend the Archbishop of Canterbury is back in the media:

He is a wily if not profound thinker, so his errors are no less profound and instructive...