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**DF9sLGSU** · 09-27-2006, 04:40 AM

Dear Irene,

Indeed, why do they keep taking crosses down? Our secular society seems to have a real problem with the Cross. Here we have had schoolgirls being told they cannot wear crucifixes to school because it 'might offend'. Who? I have never come across a believer from another faith who objected. It is hard not to believe that it is the bureaucrats and teachers themselves who cannot cope with this powerful sign.

Still, on a lighter note, I was recently told a story about a friend who wanted to buy a crucifix for his goddaughter and was asked by the shop assistant whether he wanted 'a plain one, or one of those with the little man on it?' No doubt apochryphal, but not, one suspects, far from a deeper truth.

In Christ,

John

09-27-2006, 04:40 AM	#36
DF9sLGSU Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Dear Irene, Indeed, why do they keep taking crosses down? Our secular society seems to have a real problem with the Cross. Here we have had schoolgirls being told they cannot wear crucifixes to school because it 'might offend'. Who? I have never come across a believer from another faith who objected. It is hard not to believe that it is the bureaucrats and teachers themselves who cannot cope with this powerful sign. Still, on a lighter note, I was recently told a story about a friend who wanted to buy a crucifix for his goddaughter and was asked by the shop assistant whether he wanted 'a plain one, or one of those with the little man on it?' No doubt apochryphal, but not, one suspects, far from a deeper truth. In Christ, John
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