THE TELEGRAPH: Silence has been the notable response from the bishops of the Church of England to the decision by British Airways to forbid employees from visibly wearing even a tiny cross on a necklace. It is understandable that the bishops might not wish to become embroiled in the specific case of the check-in worker Nadia Eweida. Nor would they wish to antagonise Muslim sentiment. But to pass up the opportunity to explain the centrality of the cross in Christianity and a Christian society is baffling. The cross belongs at the heart of British cultureMark Alexander
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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There they go again, afraid to stand up for the principles of the Religion they propound, scared that they may become the objects of attack!
Leaders of the Christian Church taking their pay-packets and there comfortable free lodgings for granted!
What would the early Martyrs have done?
Would they have willingly taken the yoke of the pagan Roman Empire and so stifled European Christianity at birth?
Silence speaks a thousand words.
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