Posted on 12/15/2005 12:23:08 PM PST by PietroA
In the continuing saga of the "Politically Correct" madness engulfing the "civilized" and "enlightened" West, we issue the absolute top place for 2005 to the Red Cross organization, the Geneva-based humanitarian association, which, in a frenzy of unmitigated self-righteousness and hypocritically ridiculous distancing has seen fit to change their beloved and world-wide known symbol, a red cross, as their name implies, with a nondescript red something (a square, a rhombus, a dart target, a thing).
Gorgeous isn't it? Surely the good folks in Geneva don't want to offend anybody, mind you but I think that in order to please a few, they are offending the most.
A few questions come to mind:
1) surely they will have to change their name as well, as the offending word is still present in it. "Red Square" won't do since the Kremlin would object. "Red Rhombus" is a bit pompous and anyway it sounds weird. Maybe the folks in Geneva should institute a prize winning competition to find their new name. It should be fun.
2) How much of their donated millions $$$ wil they have to spend in order to publicize their new symbol? Surely they can't have people shooting at their personnel just because they are flying a target practice flag.
They will not be getting one single penny from me.
And second place prize goes to those other busy bodies in Brussels for their "innovations" in euro speak. Listen to this: a proposal has been put forth to de capitalize the word "Christ" since it is not a proper name. The word "Christ" means "anointed" and more generally, messiah.
While this newspeak guideline does not make a linguistic wave, one cannot avoid to think that with all the unemployment, terror threats, financial scandals and corruption, continuous bickering among member states, pollution, drug dealings, hi tech and low tech criminal orgs, avian flu (I am going to stop here for brevity's sake), there are people holed up in Brussels and paid by euro citizens taxes, that have nothing better to do than to vent their anti-christian views and instruct us in the proper use of language.
Do not be fooled: it's NOT a question of grammar and semantics: it 's the euro anti-christian agenda at work. As in the Red Cross case, and in dozen others, the euro elites do not suffer Christianity and don't lose any opportunity to belittle and denigrate it. Their work is made much easier by the fact that in Europe 2005, Christianity at large, is merely a name with an appearance of religiousness, with considerable economic and financial branches but with no spiritual power to speak of. How sad that the continent that saw the birth of the Reformation and the launch of the great Christian movements that have spanned the globe, in less than 500 years has slowly returned to its former Dark Ages.
Of course there are true (Bible believing and Christ honoring) Christian churches in Europe, but we have to look away from all the main denominations and find them in the relatively small evangelical groupings. Truly God has always His remnant. How true and prophetic are the Words of our Lord Jesus Christ (ahem! we will write it the old fashioned way):
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:14-15
What do you expect from liberal cowards?
Oh right...when they stop using ambulances to deliver terrorists and bombs to battles.
this serious? Will it only impact Europe's version of the group?
I'm offended. But I only give to the Salvation Army and directly to hospitals.
"I gave up giving to the Red Cross a long time ago..."
Me too...prior to their using 9-11 to steal $$$ from kind-hearted Americans.
But then... I found this on Wikipedia: "The Red Crystal is the new politically and religiously neutral emblem approved by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. This emblem clears a hurdle for the Israeli humanitarian society, the Magen David Adom, to join the International Committee of the Red Cross. Known as Protocol III, the amendment to the Geneva Conventions relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem was adopted on 8 December 2005 and authorizes the use of the Red Crystal for use by national societies."
Maybe someone should post a list of WORTHWHILE orgs to give to. Boy scouts, for example!
I thought the only change was to the red star of david so they changed it to a diamond so they could be accepted into the red cross, am I wrong?
no, it's global.
I have read more after my uneducated post and found out the red diamond, crystal whatever is to replace every agencies religious symbol. The times they are a changing.
I always thought it was a red plus sign,what's the big deal?
NO, it's the cross that will disappear as their symbol. Sad, but a sign of the times.
A lot of people ,including myself dont give toi the red Cross now, Salvation Army is a much better charity, However I predict a lot more will stop giving when they start calling themselves the Red Crystal.
It looks a lot like the maritime signal flag for the letter "F".
Which stands for...?
Officially, it's only the Red Cross who is switching its symbol. But there's probably a more comprehensive plan. Globalization means this too.
It was a the Battle of Sempach 1387. Yes, the cruel forces of Austria threatened Switzerland. Morale in those days more than often, carried the day.
Legend has it that as the Swiss quailed at the sight of the Austrian spearmen, Arnold stepped forward. He threw himself on the spearmen and hacked his man down. Then impaled and dying,he called his countrymen forward.
It was a Swiss victory that day. Just to recount the story told by an English School Marm many years ago- a bunch of kids listened spellbound.
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