Lenin and Cromwell tried to abolish Christmas… and look what happened to them

Nov 24, 2023 by Jill

by A N Wilson, Mailonline:

Memo to the National Trust and BBC:

The National Trust was founded in order to preserve the threatened landscapes, coastline and historic buildings of Britain, and it has done a magnificent job doing all three.

But it has lost its way in recent years, allowing some of its less intelligent trustees and employees to change its very nature. Instead of being a body devoted to conserving the past, it is seen by many to be a campaigning organisation, a propaganda machine for modern liberal claptrap.

These days, it seems to consider that its duty is to change the minds of its largely elderly members about such matters as foxhunting, sexual morality, gender identity, diversity, and now, religion.

At a stormy Annual General Meeting, recently, a member from Suffolk rose to put a question. The National Trust’s ‘inclusivity and wellbeing’ charity calendar, which is provided to volunteers, contains the dates of such high points in the religious year as Diwali, Eid and Ramadan, but there is no mention of Christmas or Easter.

‘Can we have an explanation, please, for these being omitted?’ the member asked — but they must have already known the answer.

Meanwhile, at the BBC, another great British institution which has forgotten the purposes for which it was founded, a similar phenomenon is at work.

An education department within the Corporation has omitted the supposedly controversial terms AD (Anno Domini, or Year of the Lord) and BC (Before Christ).

As The Mail on Sunday reported at the weekend, BBC Teach substituted the dates for CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before the Common Era) in eight animated videos on the Roman Empire produced for seven to 11-year-olds, presumably so as not to upset non-Christians.

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