UK church pledged to cover up crosses, religious imagery
A former chaplain to the Queen argued that covering up the image of Jesus would be tantamount to disrespecting him in his own house.
An Anglican parish church in the UK has courted controversy over its plans to cover up religious imagery while hosting a Muslim prayer.
The vicar of the St. Matthew and St. Luke’s church in Darlington had invited Muslims attending a nearby mosque to commemorate the holy month of Ramadan in her church, The Times reports.
Male worshippers were expected to say prayers in an aisle while women would be separated off into smaller rooms.According to records of a meeting between Reverend Lissa Scott and Muslim representatives, the church pledged to cover up Christian crosses and photographs as well an image of Jesus.
Ironically enough, it appears that the picture was a copy of The Light of the World, a world-famous painting by English pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt, which depicts Jesus Christ knocking on a closed door, which is thought to symbolize the closed human mind.
However the Diocese of Durham is said to have pulled the plug on the plans, saying that “an act of worship from a non-Christian faith tradition is not permitted within a consecrated Church of England building”, according to canon law.
The decision came after a high-profile cleric called the proposal to place religious symbols undercover a “shameful cover-up.”Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth between 2008 and 2017, said: “When Muslims come into our church, we invite them to come in and respect Jesus.
If we accepted an invitation to go into a mosque, we would respect Muhammad.”“We do not expect them to disrespect Jesus by covering him up and no vicar should either.
”His comments garnered support from both worshippers and non-believers on social media.
“Shameful indeed. I’m not even religious but find this disgraceful. Every pillar of society is at risk of a combination of politicization and meek surrender, even our very own church,” wrote a user.
Another said: “Just astonishing, by all means promote peace across the faiths but acceptance is part of that process. I don’t know why but as a Christian I feel deflated reading this.”
Adrian@manorstepsThis displays such staggering ignorance I don’t even know where to begin.
jack ratcliffe@jackratcliffe45start with “appeasement” and end with “subjugation”, think that covers where we are…
Although Muslims were no longer invited to pray, they will still join Christians and other faiths inside the church on 2 June for Iftar, an evening meal breaking the day’s fast.“We are not trying to convert or upset — we are just trying to bring people together irrespective of language and religion,” Rev. Lee was quoted as saying. “We have simply made an error of judgement and it has been corrected.”
“For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.” —Luke 9:26
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Firstly we aint into piccies of our Lord, Because none of them accurately portray him, and also the bible does say to make no graven image. Plus Yeshua does not have a halo around his head, and the halo is pagan in origin.That being said this church is bowing down to the muslim Faith, and to be inviting muslims into what is supposed to be a church of God, so they can do their feasts, or praying to Allah is doing nothing more than building the one world religion. So they are not wanting to convert muslims to christianity, which shows they do not believe that Yeshua is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and that no one comes to the Father but by him is Scripturally correct. God never asked us to bring people together, as if we are all serving the same God. His great commission was for all who belonged to him, help to make disciples of all mankind. If any church is not prepared to do that ,or believe they need to, they are no true church of Gods. They are pandering to satan, and do nothing more than make a mockery of the bible. Seems in this day and age of PC many christians are willing for people to go to hell, because they are too scared to preach Gods truth in season and out. They are more concerned with being tolerant,loving and accepting ,instead of preaching that you can not be saved and have eternal life in heaven,unless you accept Yeshua as your only Lord and Saviour ,and believe he is God in the flesh. Wouldn’t want to be this group standing before God on judgement day being held accountable to him for this, especially if these muslims never come to a saving grace in our Lord. Yes God has told us to love people,. but love is not the church helping to keep people in false religions,by staying silent about it all. Their greatest error in judgement is not preaching that there is no God called Allah and that Yeshua is the only one true God, and thinking these muslims are worshipping the same God. Seems to be a prevalent thought in many churches these days. Just shows these churches do not know their bibles at all, nor follow Gods ways in truth and Spirit.