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Originally Posted by pdf27
Two points:
1) He's an Anglican vicar - belief in God is strictly optional.
2) In 2004 the Remembrance Sunday service attended by my unit was given a sermon about how evil and bad everything the army was doing in Iraq was. Given that there were unit members out in Iraq at the time and other people had friends/relatives there, this went down very badly. Ever since we've been vetting the vicar giving the service and if necessary importing one from outside.
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If the Vicar had sermonised that what was up in Iraq was wrong during the Rememberance Service, I reckon he does not know how to give topical sermons.
Sermons are meant to uplift the souls and not demoralise, even while reflecting on God's words.
That said, vetting the vicar's sermon tantamount to censorship!
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