Leftist hatred of Christianity on British TV
We read:
"When millions of viewers tuned into Tyrone and Molly's wedding on Coronation Street this week, they probably did not notice anything amiss with the beautiful 14th-century church. The rector was not among them.
It was not the absurd storyline that so incensed the Rev James Milnes, of St Mary's Church, Nether Alderley, Cheshire. Nor was it the ornate horse-drawn carriage, the dry-ice machine used to create atmosphere or even the harpist in the nave.
The clergyman was furious that the show's producers had decided to hide the solid brass cross that formed the centrepiece of the altar for fear that it would cause offence to viewers. Denouncing the decision to hide the cross behind a garish candelabra and artificial flowers, Mr Milnes wrote in his monthly parish magazine that Granada Television had "emptied the church of the very thing that makes it a church".
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If the sight of a cross is offensive, Britain must be boiling over with offended people. How do people ever manage to drive past a church in a calm state of mind these days?
Given the wishi-washiness of the Church of England, the most surprising thing may be that clergyman objected.
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Wow - a cross in a church - how provocative!
Iheard on the radio yesterday that the openly gay anglican minister that will give the invocation at Obama's inauguration will not invoke the name of Jesus in his prayer. Then what's the point of the prayer?
Wake up mcnasty, this is 2009. Crosses are illegal! Prayer is illegal! Any reference to religion is illegal! (islam excluded of course) God is illegal. In fact, anything politically incorrect is illegal!
Does this mean we are becoming a God-less society? No, it means there are those who are trying to make us a God-less society, and the weak, mindless people are simply standing by and watching it happen! In the end, the people always get exactly what they deserve.
mcnasty, many prayers don't mention the name of Jesus.
People shouldn't pray to a person (dead or alive), it's sacrilege to many religions (including many Christian groups).
I'm however not surprised the Beeb removed a cross from a church to film there.
After all, we're talking about the country where the police had to change their centuries old badges because they depict a cross (not a religious symbol of course, they just contain the national flag which happens to sport a cross).
Actually some crosses in the U.S.A. are OK.
The New Orleans Saint Football (the one played with hands on) team is firstly named after a Christian belief, the “Saints”. And secondly their uniform has a cross on it. It is a somewhat stylized version of a French Cross, but it is easily recognized as a cross to anyone that has ever seen a cross.
So why is it, that a publicly support organized group can have a cross on their uniforms and a Church can’t?
The other mobius
It's the Anglicans anyways.
The only reason that church came into existence was that some king could get a divorce and dip his wick somewhere else.
About as religious as Jim Baker
Henry VIII didn't need a divorce to "dip his wick somewhere else" but divorced and remarried in the hope of getting a legitimate son to ensure the Tudor succession and avoid a repeat of the civil wars. He made himself head of the Catholic Church in England not a new Church. It was his daughter Elizabeth I who founded the independent semi-Protestant Anglican Church, and also disproved her father's belief that a son would make a better monarch.
The New Orleans Saint Football (the one played with hands on) team is firstly named after a Christian belief, the “Saints”.
The Saints were not named after a Christian belief. They were named the Saints because the city was awarded the franchise on All Saints Day in 1966, and because of the history of jazz within the city and the most famous song, "When the Saints Go Marching In." Yes, "Saints" are part of a religious belief, but that is not why the Saints were named.
And secondly their uniform has a cross on it. It is a somewhat stylized version of a French Cross, but it is easily recognized as a cross to anyone that has ever seen a cross.
I presume that you are talking about the fleur-de-lis that is on the side of the helmets. The fleur-de-lis has nothing to do with the cross. The origins of the fleur-de-lis are sometimes disputed, but the design of the "lily flower" "can be found in many places long before heraldic times, as far back as Mesopotamia. It is essentially a stylized flower, and served as a decorative element and became associated over time with royalty, especially in the High Middle Ages."
It has nothing to do with the cross but was initially a symbol of purity.
Lastly, I bet this spat will have every church that rents out its sanctuary to a movie studio will have a clause in the contract saying the church cannot be altered without the permission of the church itself.
"The clergyman was furious that the show's producers had decided to hide the solid brass cross that formed the centrepiece of the altar for fear that it would cause offence to viewers."
VAMPIRES of cource!
Some must have snuck in to England hidden in the boot of a Roma family car.
So whats they got against the cross why do these idiots got agaisnt it anyway? why should christians make sacrifises to appease a bunch of secular humanists freaks
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