Photo with 3 notes
Christmas 2011
This is the nativity scene at our church at last nights Midnight Mass. It was a relatively quiet night with hardly any drunks and a high proportion of good looking exotic young men with their older partners. I think the showbiz, High Church flavour of St Michaels is a draw. The sermon was something about reading and knowledge being maybe a good thing and then again, maybe a bad thing - Classic C of E in other words. However, not a patch on one previous year when the preacher wondered if the Virgin Birth actually happened.
No such doubts for the Boko Haram sect in Northern Nigeria who today organised a seasonal bloodbath for the Catholics of Abuja. Apparently the local emergency services didn’t have enough ambulances to transport the maimed and the dying after the church there was blown up.
If that is faith with absolute certainty, then the C of E looks pretty good to me. Happy Christmas, everybody.