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December 10, 2006
Three cheers for the Archbishop of York!
Three very hearty cheers for the Archbishop. +John Sentamu has proved to be a gale of fresh air for the Church of England! His Grace's latest very measured attack on the attempts to remove Christ from Christmas and to turn it into a secular "festival" of "multi-faith" and no faith excess has struck right to the heart of the sickness that Nu Labour (and it must be said most of Old Labour!) and their placemen and women in the Civil Service have infected this country with over the last thirty years.
Christmas is a Christian festival, it is a celebration of the birth of the infant that grew into the Christ of the cross of Easter. It is not some "multi-faith" bunfight, just as the Millenium was a Christian event - which the morons of Nu Labour and the Civil Service managed to screw up completely by trying to make it "multi-faith". (They held it a year early - there is no "0" in the Roman numeral system - and they then spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get the Muslim, Jewish and other faiths to celebrate a Christian event!) Yes, Christmas does fall on the ancient Roman Saturnalia and on a Druidic festival, Beltane, but it is neither. Certainly the date was chosen because it took over an existing festival and the message of re-birth and renewal was easily transposed upon them. But it is and remains a Christian festival.
The Archbishop, an ex-Judge and lawyer is no fool, and certainly no soft touch. He has struck out at the attempts by secularists and atheists in our society to rewrite our history and to denigrate Christianity and its role in our society. His arguments are powerful - all the more so because, as a good lawyer and judge he has made sure of his case. It is edifying to see how many of Blair's so-called cabinet have suddenly come out in support of Christmas and against that other great shibboleth of the Labour Party - that Christian Festivals are "offensive" to other faiths.
The Archbishop seems to have opened the window to a gale - let us now hope that it blows the whole of this heap of trash away!
Posted by The Gray Monk at December 10, 2006 11:21 PM
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