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Gene Lalor | November 28, 2009
Christmas may sometimes involve obscenities such as atheists’ continuing war against its celebration and its degradation to a greed fest and old Uncle Charlie getting looped and re-telling the dirty jokes of his youth but Christmas has never been called obscene by a clergyman. Until now.
The Right Reverend Humphrey Southern, Anglican Bishop of Repton, thinks that, “Wishing people a Happy Christmas could be seen as an ‘insult’ or even an ‘obscenity’ as not everyone is in a position to celebrate” the holy, Christian holiday. 
Bishop Southern, a politically-correct prelate guiding his flock in a dying Anglican church, added a little strichnine to the sacramental wine by saying, “This is the ‘Happy Christmas’ month. Yet to many that greeting will be hollow, coming as an insult, or even an obscenity.”
Americans opt for “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New Year” but Southern’s admonition is presumably as applicable to us across the Pond as it is to Englishmen even if it is passe’ in contemporary America where the articulation of the words “merry” and “Christmas” can cause the dismissal of store clerks and correction by co-workers.
PC now dictates the use of the generic “Happy Holidays,” as if the mere mention of any reference to the reason for the season, namely the birth of Jesus Christ and, incidentally, a national holiday, is offensive.
Or, as Bishop Southern believes, it could be an insulting obscenity.
His rationale is that wishing a Happy or Merry Christmas 
to “a family whose father has been killed in a military operation in Afghanistan that fewer and fewer people understand (still less support)” is obscene and insulting.
Comparably obscene is using the same greetings of good will “to a community in the Indian Ocean who can probably count on the fingers of a couple of hands the number of Christmases they will see before their home disappears under water, victim to global warming?”
And, God forbid, never wish “the victim of bullying, ostracism or racial intimidation in your workplace or neighbourhoods or community” a Merry or Happy! They may interpret the well-wishes as an insult!
The good bishop also debunks a common fallacy about Advent, the four weeks before Christmas in the liturgical year dedicated to hopeful expectation for the Nativity.
Wrong again, Christians, says Southern.
Advent is “not supposed to be about ‘Happiness’ or comfort. In fact it’s deeply uncomfortable. It’s about judgement and what’s wrong with the world:” http://bit.ly/51JDFP
Bishop Southern brings to mind a conundrum with which I’ve long struggled: Why did God create so many more horses’ arses than He did horses? 
Methinks the bishop is a very unhappy man.
I sincerely doubt that the expression of a deep-felt wish that a family grieving for any reason try to accept their loss and move on with their lives and celebrate Christmas for the sake of the survivors would ever be interpreted as an obscenity.
I very much doubt that Indian-Oceanites would be insulted if wished a Merry/Happy Christmas to take their minds off events that most probably will never happen and, if it does, it will be Christians who come to their rescue.
I really doubt bullying victims or victims of ostracism and/or racism would want to forego the joys of Christmas just to indulge Bishop Southern’s qualms.
What I don’t doubt is that the bishop is a nitwit so obsessed by politics and misguided political correctness that he has lost his chosen purpose in life and has been so seduced by twisted liberal thought that he is unable to understand reality.
For more about Bishop Humphrey Southern, 
see here: http://bit.ly/6gHfYj
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