Operation Franklin Graham

[cassandre]

A couple of weeks ago, we got a letter from Charlie's school asking us to decorate a shoebox and fill it with small gifts to send to a needy child in a third world country for Christmas. It crossed my mind at the time to wonder whether Needy Children in the Third World would even be familiar with the concept of Christmas (the UK is very Christmas-

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[chickenfeet2003]

"a little bit of Christianity but not so much as to profoundly offend anyone"

That pretty much sums up the C of E!

[cassandre]

You would know better than I would!

[casperflea]

I just love the word litotes, and thank you for making it a part of my morning.

[cassandre]

Aw, you're welcome. I'm glad it didn't just come across as pompous.

[loxian]

This post makes me feel very happy.

[cassandre]

Good! I take it then that you may have had something to do with the withdrawal of this scheme?

For the record I should say that I'm not rabidly anti-religious (or at least I try not to be). I am rabidly anti-fundamentalist because I'm the daughter of a fundamentalist pastor and grew up with hellfire and brimstone and the whole works... then I went to university and rebelled in truly cliched fashion. (M refers to this part of my history as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Cassandre.) So now I am officially godless and all about ethics rather than religion, but I can't be flippant/dismissive about something that once defined my entire life. Showy intolerant atheists like Dawkins annoy me no end.