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**DF9sLGSU** · 08-29-2006, 03:26 AM

Dear Christina,

I note from the evening news that the authorities are now retreating from their previous position and are saying that the footballer made other gestures, and that it was for these that he was censured; a sign, perhaps that they realised that, at the moment, this was a step too far. But given the attempts to use 'winterval' instead of Christmas on the part of some British councils, and the reluctance of state schools to fulfil their obligations under the 1944 Education Act to start the school day with an act of Christian worship, the signs of the times tell us what we in the west already know - that we live in a post-Christian culture. These signs might suggest an anti-Christian element is beginning to predominate?

Compared to what Orthodox Christians have suffered behind the old Iron Curtain, and to what the Coptic Orthodox suffered in Ethiopia and still suffer in Egypt, these things are small beer; but perhaps we should be vigilant, if only on the 'thin end of the wedge' principle?

John

08-29-2006, 03:26 AM	#14
DF9sLGSU Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Dear Christina, I note from the evening news that the authorities are now retreating from their previous position and are saying that the footballer made other gestures, and that it was for these that he was censured; a sign, perhaps that they realised that, at the moment, this was a step too far. But given the attempts to use 'winterval' instead of Christmas on the part of some British councils, and the reluctance of state schools to fulfil their obligations under the 1944 Education Act to start the school day with an act of Christian worship, the signs of the times tell us what we in the west already know - that we live in a post-Christian culture. These signs might suggest an anti-Christian element is beginning to predominate? Compared to what Orthodox Christians have suffered behind the old Iron Curtain, and to what the Coptic Orthodox suffered in Ethiopia and still suffer in Egypt, these things are small beer; but perhaps we should be vigilant, if only on the 'thin end of the wedge' principle? John
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