Objections to Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2009 
Filed under Resources

CPX“Column 8 of the Sydney Morning Herald last week had an interesting entry from a man identifying only as a ‘Canberra Anglican parish priest’. In the lead up to Christmas he had organised some community carols in his local shopping centre, but met some resistance.

‘To my great amusement,’ he wrote, ‘the manager of the centre objected, because she thinks the “[expletive] Christians want to take over Christmas.”

I’d always assumed that the “Christ” bit in both words might serve as a clue.’ …”

– read the full article by Simon Smart at the Centre for Public Christianity.