An Unholy Christmas Carol Alliance
To the tune of “We Three Kings” …
Palestinian martyrs we are,
Wearing bombs we travel afar.
Jews we hate, we don’t discriminate
Blowing up yonder bar
I’ve been moved to song by the news that a group of anti-Israel British Jews teamed up with a Church of England vicar to stage a Christmas carol concert with a difference: the words of the songs were replaced with lyrics critical of Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians. So, for example, “While Shepherds Watched” becomes:
While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground,
Some occupying soldiers came and bulldozed all around.
You get the idea. Somehow I don’t think my little ditty would have made it on to the order of service.
The concert was organized by a group calling itself Jews For Boycotting Israeli Goods, or J-BIG for short, and held at St James’s Church in Piccadilly, central London — a church with a rich history (it was designed by Sir Christopher Wren), but which has over the years adopted an increasingly “progressive” and “radical” approach to preaching the Gospels.
In addition to various rag-tag activist groups, the carolers included the Liberal Democrat politician Baroness Tonge, who caused a storm in 2004 when she said that if she were Palestinian she would consider becoming a suicide bomber, and who’s notorious for holding forth on the power of the “Jewish lobby.” Also there was Bruce Kent, a former Catholic priest who, having failed to deliver Western Europe to the Soviet Union in the 1980s in his capacity as head of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, left the priesthood so he could devote himself more fully to political activism.
Defending the concert, Kent said: “I am fed up with sugary religion — the baby Jesus sitting in his stable and all that stuff.” Perhaps he prefers the more “in your face” religion of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, whose terrorists Israel’s “oppressive” security measures are designed to thwart, and whose fellow believers were deeply immersed in their latest act of worship in Bombay even as Kent and his companions sang mockingly about checkpoints and security barriers on the West Bank.
Do some people still wonder why the Anglican Church is in such a precipitous decline?
So easy to criticize .
How bout a diddy bout love and peace ?
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The bastards are probably Saxons like the ones
that raped my gr gr gr gr great Granny Angloia .
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Guess I could sue me self but what’s the point .
This is just too much. What the hell is this world coming to?? Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and a Happy New Year to everyone. May G-d have mercy on all of us.
The CoE is just a front for marxists. trots and other near-do-wells who have lost the political argument.
Eddie Izzard says the CofE is more like a hobby than an actual church these days. Spot on.
Kent said: “I am fed up with sugary religion — the baby Jesus sitting in his stable and all that stuff.”
Very good quote Mr. McNally. I suppose peace and forgiveness in religion isn’t in style anymore. I think some people don’t even understand the words coming out of their own mouth.
Merry Christmas and whatever you celebrate too,
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You can see why the English are so determinedly secular these days. If I had to sit in the pews and listen to this dreck for any length of time, I’d probably end up as a ranting, raving atheist too.
Nothing could be farther from the spirit of this sacred day – don’t they have any shame?
Long live Eretz Israel!
Sohrab
http://www.iranianfreedom.wordpress.com
It appears that the Church of England has decided on suicide.
“The CoE is just a front for marxists. trots and other near-do-wells who have lost the political argument.”
The CoE is certainly a pointless institution, it has no theological justification that I can see as it was just a political creation to suit the whims of a king.
I wouldn’t say that Queen Liz is a Marxist though, she’s a very bad one if she is.
Even a bad Marxist can be a good useful idiot, as she who has swapped her title of Defender of the Faith for Enabler of the Idiots demonstrates.
From what I gather, ‘The Church of England’ is more akin to the US congressionaly supported organization ‘ACORN’? Basically a self perpetuating entity of the congress (government) in power at the time?
How ironic that the pro-Western, conservative, break-away wing of the Anglican Church is led by — Nigerians.
If it wasn’t for checkpoints and security barriers there would have been a dozen Mumbais in Israel by now.
And that’s exactly what these caroling scumbags want.
Sounds like a bunch of wanna-be sonderkommandos sucking up to their future overlords.
So is Fink gonna hold her breath next?
Spot on about Islam’s hatred for anyone but Muslims.