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LETTER TO THE
DAILY MAIL'S LETTERS SECTION on Monday, December 12,2016
WE
NEED MORE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
NOT
ADVERTISING
IT'S shocking to see
obscene advertising budgets allocated by retail giants
to the annual extravaganza still called
CHRISTMAS
although
CHRIST
is ignored.
John Lewis gave us a
charming story of a family, a fox, a dog and a
trampoline. The missing element? How about a
disadvantaged Middle Eastern Jewish baby boy, whose
later teachings became the blueprint for leading a
decent life?
Much to the
annoyance of my shopping companions, I tend to ask shop
assistants if they are selling anything that relates to
the
REAL
STORY of CHRISTMAS
I am met with
puzzled faces, especially in larger retail outlets.
Singing trees, silver penguins and glass polar bears
play a far more significant part in the 2016 Christmas
story'
I haven't worshipped
in a church of any denomination for decades and regard
myself as a humanist, so don't call me a bible-bashing
racist or small minded.
among British
virtues is that most people still draw on the examples
of good living embedded in
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
The further we drift
from those values, the less pleasant our society
becomes. Our tendency to self-effacement, as well as to
MULTICULTURALISM
and
POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS
has confined
our
Anglo-Saxon Christianity
to a corner.
Please retailers,
don't play this game. Families should place a Nativity
scene in their home and tell the story to their
children, Educators shouldn't be blackmailed, frightened
or embarrassed into removing all
traces of the Nativity from their
WINTER CURRICULUM .
Christmas is a Christian festival,
and should be no
shame in saying so .
M... P.......,
Torquay, Devon.
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'The
distinction between Christianity and all other systems
of religion consists largely in this, that in these
others men are found seeking after God, while
Christianity is God seeking after men.'-
THOMAS ARNOLD
'Christianity is
the companion of liberty in all its conflicts-the cradle
of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.'-
De Tocqueville
'Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a
life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living
process.'-
COLERIDGE
'Give Christianity a common law trial; submit the
evidence pro and con to an impartial jury under the
direction of a competent court, and the verdict will
assuredly be in its favor '.-
Chief Justice
Gibson.
'Christianity everywhere gives dignity to labor,
sanctity to marriage, and brotherhood to man,- where it
may not convince, it enlightens; where it does not
convert it restrains; where it does not renew, it
refines; where it does not sanctify, it subdues and
elevates. It is profitable alike for this world, and for
the world that is to come'.-
LORD LAWRENCE.
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DECEMBER 12-2016
H.F.1058
BREXIT
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