Posted on 11/27/2009 6:22:54 PM PST by Steelfish
Wishing Happy Christmas 'Could Be An Obscenity' Warns Bishop Wishing people a Happy Christmas could be seen as an "insult" or even an "obscenity" as not everyone is in a position to celebrate, a bishop has warned.
By Stephen Adams 27 Nov 2009
Many can't share the manufactured bonhomie of Christmas, say bishop Y
The Right Reverend Humphrey Southern, the Bishop of Repton, said it was a "hollow" greeting to make to those who were suffering. People should not "simply make a cocoon of happiness for ourselves and our loved ones" at Christmas, he said.
Writing in the monthly Derby diocese newsletter, he said: "This is the 'Happy Christmas' month. Yet to many that greeting will be hollow, coming as an insult, or even an obscenity."
The bishop, 49, went on to ask: "What can 'Happy Christmas' mean in a family whose father has been killed in a military operation in Afghanistan that fewer and fewer people understand (still less support)?
"How do you wish 'Happy Christmas' to a community in the Indian Ocean who can probably count on the fingers of a couple of hands the number of Christmases they will see before their home disappears under water, victim to global warming?
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Nor is it “autonomous”...
They seem autonomous to me. None of the members of the Anglican Communion seem particularly responsible to either each other or to a central authority. There is no central authority that can set rules for any of the members. How do you think that “autonomous” is not an appropriate descriptor?
See also here.
Quoting wikipedia is like quoting my tech-savvy teen. Pointless.
Hence why I quoted anglican.org as well. Which you ignored.
What religion are you? I want to explain this from your prospective.
It's in my profile. I'm Christian, and one of the "people called Methodist"--whose founder was an Anglican priest, I might add.
If you're going to tell me that the Anglican Communion is not autonomous because each individual national church answers to the Lord Jesus, that's really more an eschatological statement--and we're talking church polity here.
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