From the "You can't make this stuff up" department. The London Times reports on an anti-semitic Christmas service in London. An uprooted olive tree? We all know its a "partridge" in a pear tree.
Leading members of Britain’s Jewish and Christian communities have condemned a prominent Anglican church for holding a service where traditional carols were rewritten to attack Israel.
The Rector of St James’s Piccadilly, the Rev Charles Hedley, said that he would think twice before allowing the service to take place in his church again after he received dozens of complaints.
The offices of Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Carey of Clifton, his predecessor, are among those who have criticised the service. The event was organised by anti-Israel campaigners, including one Jewish group, and featured carols that had been rewritten by an unnamed Jewish parody writer.
The Twelve Days of Christmas was sung as: “Twelve assassinations/ Eleven homes demolished/ Ten wells obstructed/ Nine sniper towers/ Eight gunships firing/ Seven checkpoints blocking/ Six tanks a-rolling/ Five settlement rings/ Four falling bombs/ Three trench guns/ Two trampled doves/ And an uprooted olive tree.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5270185.ece
3 comments:
Well, duh. I can't imagine anyone remotely connected with the Bible doing that. Reminds me of the cut and paste synopsis some use to harass, condemn and exclude those who disagree with them.
Given the strong anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian stance of many in our own Episcopal Church, this doesn't surprise me very much.
Given the strong anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian stance of many in our own Episcopal Church, this doesn't surprise me very much.
Dittoes.
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