Well, I’m not, but Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee is because there are no white people in the Bible and because white people exchanging gifts is yet another example of white supremacy. I presume the centurion in Matthew 8 was white, not to mention Herod and other assorted gentiles in Galatia and Ephesus. Perhaps they don’t count. Or perhaps the bishop hasn’t actually read the Bible.
So, if your skin has a whitish tinge to it, add another knot to your knout and indulge in a little Advent self-flagellation.
If COVID hasn’t made you feel depressed this Christmas, watch this video to complete the job.
It just occurred to me: there are no Welsh people in the Bible either. I’m off to add yet another knot to my scourge.
She is the acme and apex of Virtue Signalling. If you are white, you should be ashamed. More nonsense from a very weak bishop.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, Christians are celebrating Christmas in many parts of the Middle East today. There have been Christians in the Middle East continuously since the birth of the Christian faith. Today, Bethlehem has a population of about 25,000 and is a focus of religious life for many Palestinian Christians. It does not matter whether Palestinians are white or not. What is important is that we should celebrate Christmas in the Christian way in the midst of the globalization and commercialization. We don’t send out any Christmas photo with the caption: “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo”. We celebrate the birth of Jesus, not just promoting the message of peace on earth and goodwill to all humankind. We must not pay more attention to Father Christmas, Christmas trees, lights and decorations than the real meaning of Christmas. God has come down to rescue us from sin, and spiritual death.
Video not working on this one
Thanks John, it should be fixed now – I hope!
Just watched it, well, today, Jews I’ve seen are white skinned looks like that’s not always been the case, Romans are white skinned too, India, Iran & Iraq are from a white skinned Arian race, Art done by Europeans giving persons their features. The Bishop said what she said. Does the art do justice or is it not what the persons looked like?
According to The Apostle John, and our LORD Jesus Christ Himself, Christmas is about Light Supremacy; not White Supremacy.
+ John ch. 1;8 “All things were made by Him…in Him was life; and the life was the light of men…that was The True Light…”
“I AM The Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
This our LORD said after having forgiven the woman caught in adultery, charging her to “go, and sin no more”.
He did not ask her what colour her skin was.
Throughout The Infallible Testimony of Holy Scripture the multi-coloured Babylonian garment turns up, from Achan in + Joshua ch. 7. causing Israel to fail at Ai in their appointed Divine Conquest of The Land; to the struggling life of the infant Apostolic Churches against which all the Apostles warn and inveigh, for its rebellious rainbow iniquity is from the enemy of one’s soul.
“If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and The Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and The Truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar,
and His WORD is not in us.” + I John ch. 1 Amen.
This was too much for me. I made it through half the video before I quit watching. Too much Marxist self-flagelation hate.
Presumably she has never bothered to ponder Galatians 3:28 either.