Our local city council listed an upcoming holiday in its quarterly free information newsletter. It read: “All council offices will be closed, Monday April 25 for Spring Holiday.” What? Really? Have we been pulled so far down by our "always politically correct" politicians that we can’t refer to Easter as Easter anymore? Why did they not even make mention of the previous Friday as being Good Friday? They worked this day when it has been an official bank holiday for the past … [Read more...]
Do You Know What Really Annoys Me?
First Published February 1, 2008 When people say that statements made by evangelical Christians about our God are offensive to people of other faiths and/or no faith. Locally our city council (Aberdeen Scotland) have stopped referring officially to the Christmas holiday period and renamed it "Winter Festival" so as not to offend people who are not Christian. The fact that many of the lights strung up across the high street showed wise men on camels and or a star over a manager in Bethlehem … [Read more...]
