People will probably expect me to bemoan the fact that Norfolk’s fire service removed religious aspects from the staff Remembrance Day event this year, saying that some staff had felt excluded in previous years because of religious references. But I have never understood what was religious about Remembrance Day.
That is not a reason not to keep it. But, despite the entirely post facto justifications for the Second one which almost everyone imagines to have applied at the time, neither World War was any sort of crusade, and the First, from the end of which we derive the date of Remembrance Day, is, one way or another, a moral stain on the history of every country involved.
That is before we even start about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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ReplyDeleteCan I suggest that you read the comments on this blog. You might learn something about praying for the dead.
If that was what happened at these things. But it isn't. Even the practice of having the Requiem Mass instead of the Sunday Mass strikes me as an unwarranted departure from the Lectionary. There really isn't anything religious about Remembrance Day. So what, but there isn't.
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