Posted on 12/08/2025 9:30:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Church of England has warned Christians to resist "populist forces seeking to exploit the faith for their own political ends" after Tommy Robinson announced a Christmas event in London. The far-right activist has urged supporters to attend a carols event next weekend aimed at "putting the Christ back into Christmas". Church officials have reportedly become unsettled by the number of church symbols and slogans adopted by Mr Robinson's political campaign, with participants of his march in the capital earlier this year chanting "Christ is king" and calling on passersby to defend "God, faith, family [and] homeland".
Speaking ahead of the carol event, the Right Reverend Arun Arora, bishop of Kirkstall and the Church's co-lead on racial justice, urged believers to "resist the capture of Christian language and symbols by populist forces seeking to exploit the faith for their own political ends". The Church of England is also expected to launch a poster campaign confronting the use of Christian symbols in Robinson's hardline nationalist agenda.
The posters are set to be displayed on bus stops around the country, with messages including "Christ has always been in Christmas" and "Outsiders welcome". Local churches have also been encouraged to download the print-outs and share them with congregations in an effort to combat anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Over 100,000 took part in Mr Robinson's Unite the Kingdom march earlier this autumn, in what was billed as a "free speech" rally and included an appearance from Elon Musk, who hit out at the so-called "woke mind virus" via video link.
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The Church of England is the modern day equivalent of the Pharisee. Hypocrites, to the end.
Tommy is spot on. Anybody who holds back a loyalist and Patriot trying to defend us against the Islamic hoards is living in denial.
Spot on!
Reminds me about Mark Steyn’s essay from yesterday where he discussed our feminised Western society and its patriarchal immigration policy. A fateful paradox.
https://www.steynonline.com/15805/when-men-walk-away
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As if the Church of England owns the rights to Christmas.
bet they are in deep with the government and the invaders taking over England while we sit and watch thier churches turn into mosques
So when they hang fag flags, that’s not exploiting Christmas?
Bkmk
That little old lady who thinks she is the Archbishop of Canterbury should mind her own business.
Wow, they even recognize the concept of hijacking Christian faith for political purposes. That makes their sin less innocent by far.
We left the church of England in the early 1600s.
That’s rich of the Church of England. They are criticizing Tommy Robinson for politicizing the church when that’s all they do 24 hours a day.
They have displaced God‘s word with a political agenda while rejecting the word of God and the Gospel in favor of an extreme leftist Marxist agenda. They should change their name to the Temple of Satan and Sin and Communism.
Basically, they are rejecting Jesus and his sacrifice and thus rejecting our Heavenly Father when they reject the call to put Christ back in Christmas. Pure blasphemy! To hell with them where they belong!
Totalitarianism in its finest form. The official state church promotes the message of the government too.
How does one “exploit” the Christian message??? One can certainly get it wrong but assuming that you understand it,and are expressing it,correctly there absolutely cannot be any “exploitation”.
Republicans need to say it out loud — it’s a worthless and phony church.
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