JUST over a week ago Tommy Robinson announced his latest event and truly inspired idea. No, it’s not another protest but an open air carol service. The event, called ‘Putting Christ back into Christmas’, is to be held in central London on Saturday December 13. All are invited to attend.
He heads it on X as ‘UNITED FOR CHRIST THIS CHRISTMAS’, a ‘Unite The Kingdom’ production entitled, ‘Putting Christ Back Into Christmas’, to be held on 13th December, Whitehall, Central London, 2pm.
His tweet invites you (us/anyone) to ‘join believers from across the nation in central London as we gather to honour the true meaning of Christmas — the joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ’.
Why? Well it explains that, ‘at a time when the message of Christ can feel forgotten or overshadowed, Unite The Kingdom is calling Christians together to stand boldly and lovingly for the heart of our faith: Christ is Christmas.’
Who can argue with that? As we witness Christmas becoming ever more commercial and transmuted into a pagan ‘Winterval’ or reduced in equivalence to an alternative ethnic festival equivalent to Diwali and Ramadan, it’s beyond time needed. (That is me talking, not Tommy!)
The tweet tells us what to expect: Bible readings and reflections, with priests, pastors, ministers, ‘and a bishop leading the congregation through the powerful story of Christ’s birth and the hope it brings’.
This is to come with live music and uplifting worship ‘from a dynamic gospel band, alongside breath-taking performances from opera singers’. Those who gather, the announcement promises, will hear testimonies of transformation – ‘moving personal stories from Christians sharing how their lives were changed by their journey to Jesus Christ’.
The event will mark, Robinson concludes, the beginning of a new Christian revival in the UK — a moment to reclaim and celebrate our heritage, culture, and Christian identity.
It is not about politics, immigration or Islam, he insists. It is quite simply about Jesus Christ — ‘fully and completely’.
The tweet ends with a three-and-a-half minute film of some of those who will be participating in the service and the reminder that ‘that singular moment (of Christ’s birth) remains the most powerful proclamation of hope the world has ever seen’.
Shockingly, but perhaps not unpredictably, the Church of Woke (England) has responded. Politically. Condemning this long needed initiative – one they never attempted – furious at this Unite The Kingdom’s revival of Christianity. Not content with watering down the Christian faith to mean nothing, and at worst, offending against it, they now claim ownership of the faith.
Some chance, despite the Guardian’s gleeful report of C of E leaders’ angry pronouncement that that the event constitutes a ‘far right appropriation of Christianity’, as though Christ, whom they have so singularly failed, belongs just to their woke selves, to do what they will with!
Of course the atheist Guardian‘s coverage of their warning of ‘false prophets of the far right’ fits identically with the paper’s own extreme ideological world view.
The deep irony being that they are preaching to their own converted. To woke conformists, not to Christians. Just as Christians have given up on the culturally marxist and sex denying, anti-marriage Established Church in droves, they long since gave up on the Guardian.
Of course, holding such a joyous event celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ — the incarnate God — is exactly what the C of E should itself be doing. The Unite the Kingdom initiative is a double bull’s eye.
So, angry and embittered by this clear bypassing of their egoistical selves, CoE leaders resorted to a politically targeted and very un-Christian attack, sneering and insulting the very people who might have been their flock, the very people they should be seeking to ‘include’, but who their woke virtue signalling excludes.
How else would you describe launching a specifically-timed poster campaign ‘aimed at challenging the anti-migrant message of Tommy Robinson’, to discourage people from attending a carol service?
Well, Bishop Ceirion Dewar for one was having nothing of it and has called them out. Last week he took to X to rebuke to them. Do watch, it is masterly.
I am with him. All things being equal, I hope to be there on Saturday. Maybe I will see some TCW readers there too?
