By calling the cross 'religious decoration', ABC is helping secularists
By calling the cross 'religious decoration', the Archbishop of Canterbury is helping secularists. Whose side is he on?
By Peter Mullen
The Telegraph
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/
March 12th, 2012
Controversy over the cross - and Dr Williams isn't helping
Today the Archbishop of Canterbury is reported as saying: "The cross has become a religious decoration." It is something which religious people hang on to as a substitute for faith. He goes on: "I believe that during Lent one of the things we all have to face is to look at ourselves and ask how far we are involved in the religion factory." He sees the cross as part of that "religion factory". It is an infelicitous phrase, for a factory is where objects are merely churned out, as from a production line. Is that what the cross, the supreme Christian symbol, has become?
Dr William's words are particularly unhelpful just now when our Government has refused to support Nadia Eweida's submission to the European Court that she be allowed to wear a cross in her workplace. The British Government has said to the EC that Mrs Eweida has no right to wear her cross, but that her employer has the right to ban her from wearing it.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Peter Mullen
The Telegraph
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/
March 12th, 2012
Controversy over the cross - and Dr Williams isn't helpingToday the Archbishop of Canterbury is reported as saying: "The cross has become a religious decoration." It is something which religious people hang on to as a substitute for faith. He goes on: "I believe that during Lent one of the things we all have to face is to look at ourselves and ask how far we are involved in the religion factory." He sees the cross as part of that "religion factory". It is an infelicitous phrase, for a factory is where objects are merely churned out, as from a production line. Is that what the cross, the supreme Christian symbol, has become?
Dr William's words are particularly unhelpful just now when our Government has refused to support Nadia Eweida's submission to the European Court that she be allowed to wear a cross in her workplace. The British Government has said to the EC that Mrs Eweida has no right to wear her cross, but that her employer has the right to ban her from wearing it.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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