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Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading
The Telegraph (London) ^ | 1/22/2017 | Camilla Turner

Posted on 01/23/2017 6:48:11 AM PST by Prospero

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row saying he has a 'duty' to defend Christianity:
A chaplain to the Queen has resigned after publicly criticising a church that allowed a Koran reading during its service as part of an interfaith project.

The Rev Gavin Ashenden, who until this week was one of the 33 special chaplains to the Queen, said the reading was “a fairly serious error” and one which he had a duty to speak out about.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: christianity; islam; koran; queen
As most Freepers understand by now, preaching Koranic "verses" at the center of attention inside the places of worship belonging to "People of the Book" can be compared with filing a claim of ownership over a piece of Real Estate at the Courthouse, and count also as a statement of "Submission" to Islam on the part of the congregation that allows it. Thus this Chaplain is acting as Paul recommended, not eating animals sacrificed to idols, not that there are idols but for the sake of witness.

The Marxists (like the Nazis before them) are co-belligerents with Islam for the sake of shutting down free speech and destroying the foundations of western civilization.

Islamic "refugees" (of late more frequently called "migrants") are colonists.

1 posted on 01/23/2017 6:48:11 AM PST by Prospero
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To: Prospero

The Rev Gavin Ashenden....back in the day, he’d be made a knight.


2 posted on 01/23/2017 6:56:12 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Prospero

Good for him. Standing UP against an “idol”


3 posted on 01/23/2017 6:57:30 AM PST by Paul46360
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To: Prospero

And the passage from the Koran, that was read in a Christian church, proclaimed that Jesus was NOT THE SON OF GOD. IN A CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Whoever approved this, in ‘the name of diversity’, should be fired. I weep for the naive people who are willingly following their leaders into the boxcars.


4 posted on 01/23/2017 6:58:07 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Prospero

Henry VIII was a vile heretic and the people who are his “spiritual” heirs and control his “legacy” prove over and over that they are not real Christians. They wear their agnosticism as a badge of honor and scoff at the concept of Christ as the Divine resurrected Savior. They are parasites who live off the wealth left them true believers that preceded them and the gullible.


5 posted on 01/23/2017 6:58:24 AM PST by allendale
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To: Prospero

Allowing a koraqn reading which calls for your destruction is “interfaith”

The muzzleheads must be laughing at how easy it is to defeat us


6 posted on 01/23/2017 6:58:33 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: Paul46360

It’s a start.


7 posted on 01/23/2017 6:58:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Prospero

Resigned, or was fired? Seems to me that the UK is hell-bent on becoming izzlam. How long before the Queen is bowing down in submission, and the flag loses its cross?


8 posted on 01/23/2017 7:00:12 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Prospero

>>The Rev Gavin Ashenden, who until this week was one of the 33 special chaplains to the Queen, said the reading was “a fairly serious error” and one which he had a duty to speak out about.

He is possibly the last Christian clergyman left in Britain.


9 posted on 01/23/2017 7:02:47 AM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Prospero

“can be compared with filing a claim of ownership over a piece of Real Estate at the Courthouse”

Excellent analogy. Once that claim is legally made, ‘tis very difficult for the rightful owner to discharge that claim.


10 posted on 01/23/2017 7:03:33 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: Prospero

11 posted on 01/23/2017 7:06:44 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Prospero

I will reserve my prayers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This occurred in Scotland, which really does seem to be nearly, completely lost. Maybe they really should separate from Great Britain.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 7:07:01 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Bryanw92

Prayers for him, and that the UK will see the error of their ways.

Thank you, Rev. Ashenden for speaking out and standing by your faith.


13 posted on 01/23/2017 7:33:53 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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The cathedral in Kelvinbridge had invited local Muslim worshippers to contribute to the service

That was his first mistake. His second was not approving the particular reading.

14 posted on 01/23/2017 8:04:13 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: dfwgator

wonder what the Pope would do???


15 posted on 01/23/2017 9:04:11 AM PST by Paul46360
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To: Paul46360
Or.....THE BISHOP!!!
16 posted on 01/23/2017 9:06:20 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Paul46360

Wouldn’t matter, for he is as illegitimate as pope, as Trump is as president for some folks.


17 posted on 01/23/2017 9:34:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Prospero

good for him.


18 posted on 01/23/2017 9:49:00 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: allendale

This is a slightly academic point in the context, but the reading didn’t take place in an Anglican Church, as originally established by Henry VIII - it was a Scottish Episcopal church, which has a different history.


19 posted on 01/23/2017 11:14:29 AM PST by Winniesboy
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