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January 7, 2009
Vicar Deems Crucifix Too "Horrifying"
Posted by Dave Blount at January 7, 2009 10:09 AM
At St. John's Church in Horsham, West Sussex, Christianity withers in the face of feel-good fluffiness:
A vicar has removed a sculpture of the crucifixion from the front of his church because it was a 'horrifying depiction of pain and suffering' that was scaring off worshippers.
Rev Ewen Souter said the traditional Christian symbol was frightening children and that it would be replaced with a modern, stainless steel cross.
We wouldn't want to remind anyone about Christ suffering actual pain on our behalf. Souter elaborates:
We're all about hope, encouragement and the joy of the Christian faith. We want to communicate good news, not bad news, so we need a more uplifting and inspiring symbol than execution on a cross.
Thus the preference for something bland and generic-looking.
The crucifix had been hanging outside the church since the 1960s. Its new home is the Horsham Museum — a fit place for relics of Christian Europe.
The Cult of Moonbattery will win out as our official religion when we no longer have the belly for anything but fluff.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
