{"id":6449,"date":"2009-11-28T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2009-11-28T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T03:55:09","slug":"wishing-you-a-happy-christmas-is-now-an-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wishing-you-a-happy-christmas-is-now-an-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing you a Happy Christmas is now an insult"},"content":{"rendered":"

And could possible be obscene<\/a>. That means I will be doing a lot more of it this Christmas.<\/p>\n

Wishing people a Happy Christmas could be seen as an “insult” or even an “obscenity” as not everyone is in a position to celebrate, a bishop has warned.<\/p>\n

The Right Reverend Humphrey Southern, the Bishop of Repton, said it was a “hollow” greeting to make to those who were suffering.<\/p>\n

People should not “simply make a cocoon of happiness for ourselves and our loved ones” at Christmas, he said.<\/p>\n

Writing in the monthly Derby diocese newsletter, he said: “This is the ‘Happy Christmas’ month. Yet to many that greeting will be hollow, coming as an insult, or even an obscenity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trust an Anglican clergyman to come up with such an innovative idea: let\u2019s make everyone feel miserable at Christmas.It appears to have eluded the Right Daft Reverend Humphrey Southern that Christmas is a celebration of the incarnation of the Son of God who came into the world to save us from our sins; this is something that should make us happy.<\/p>\n

I am starting to suspect that mainline churches are becoming ashamed of Christmas. Driving home this evening we passed a United Church which brazenly advertised a Holiday Jingle, while a school almost next door had a sign for its Christmas Concert.<\/p>\n

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