Warrington Council promotes recycling instead of Christmas
by Jennifer Gold
Posted: Friday, December 14, 2007, 9:38 (GMT)
This year, Warrington Council's Christmas lights, rather than bearing the usual Christmas message, reads "Recycle for Warrington". In response, the Church of England has written a spoof hymn lamenting the "hijacking" of Christmas.
The hymn, sets new words to the old favourite God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and gives the message that Warrington Council has replaced Christmas with a recycling drive.
The Diocese of Manchester said that the decision to link Christmas with the Council's recycling campaign was an "insult to the faith community of Warrington and the spirit of the season"
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Added: Saturday, December 15, 2007, 10:21 (GMT)
This is another example of how silly and sinister the secular agenda has become. It seems to me there are far too many cases of this kind of thing where local authorities and people with power are trying to suppress Christianity with multiculturalism as the cover. I was so shocked when I read in another article that in some schools children have been banned from giving Christmas cards to each other in case it offends non-Christian students. If that is true then I truly despair the state of this country. I always believed the UK to be a country of freedom and thought religious intolerance existed only in places like Iran or North Korea. This may not be as bad, but still it's essentially the same thing just done in a different name and a different way.
Andy Smith, Bognor Regis
