Posted on 12/08/2025 5:23:41 PM PST by aspasia
The Church of England is to launch a poster campaign aimed at challenging the anti-migrant message of Tommy Robinson, whose “Unite the Kingdom” movement has urged its supporters to join a carols event next weekend to “put the Christ back into Christmas”.
The posters, which will go on display at bus stops, say “Christ has always been in Christmas” and “Outsiders welcome”. They will also be available for local churches to download and display over the festive period.
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The Rev Arun Arora, bishop of Kirkstall and co-lead bishop on racial justice for the C of E, said: “We must confront and resist the capture of Christian language and symbols by populist forces seeking to exploit the faith for their own political ends.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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How is “put the Christ back into Christmas” anti anything?
When is someone going to mercifully pull the plug on the C of E? 500 years... you’ve had a colorful run, chaps, but it’s over...
Says the destroyer of British culture as it exploits the faith for it's own end. Do the clergy of England routinely set national political policy?
Liberals never stop! They lay awake at night thinking up weird stuff. The more subversive, the better.
On the Left there are those who have stolen Christ to use him for their own ends and they often have religious titles.
Sadducees indeed.
The Right has its politicizing hypocrites as well make no mistake.
Pharisees indeed.
The C of E better worry about putting Christ back into the C of E. It’s been decades without Him
"In November 2023, he was one of 44 Church of England bishops who signed an open letter supporting the use of the Prayers of Love and Faith (i.e. blessings for same-sex couples) and called for "Guidance being issued without delay that includes the removal of all restrictions on clergy entering same-sex civil marriages, and on bishops ordaining and licensing such clergy."
Church of Gay England....
Robinson’s “anti-migrant” message has nothing to do with the C of E. The church is just acting as part of the crooked UK Government, probably on orders from it.
Robinson’s “anti-migrant” message has nothing to do with the C of E. The church is just acting as part of the crooked UK Government, probably on orders from it.
This is why we have Separation of Church and State.
Because it's pro-Christ.
This is the same Church of England that wants to ban pointy knives. Yes, that will solve the UK’s problem of Muslims stabbing innocent people on the street.
Idiots. Dangerous, naive idiots.
https://reason.com/2019/10/07/the-u-k-must-ban-pointy-knives-says-church-of-england/
My protestant ancestors tried to put them out of business 400 years ago. Part of the issue back then was the pagan practices of the C of E at Christmas even back then. They are worse, now.
About 1% of the membership of the Church of England shows up to church on any given Sunday.
The C of E is indwelt by evil.
Christ is too Euro-centric for the Church of England, apparently. And offensive to anti-Christian Moozleems.
A perfect distillation of liberation theology, that has gone completely unconfronted and unresisted by clergy.
I suppose it goes by the name of liberation theology and social gospel in the US. Protestants and Catholics not exempt.
This is "Open Society" language. The speaker is the one doing this.
There is a very good book by R Reno, "The Return of the Strong Gods" that discusses the Open Society, its sources and failures. After
the 1st and 2nd WW, Western Leaders sought to re-educate society to remove nationalism and populism, which they viewed as responsible for the tragedies of the these wars. The Open Society seeks to remove metaphysics and Truth and allow Individuals to search and determine their own meaning in life. It advances this "Disenchantment Therapy" Through Critical and Reductive analysis.
An excellent book, althoug it is a difficult read because most of the content is fairly new to me, even though it is the history of my times.
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