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By Margaret Lawson Christmas spirit Soon the pagan festival of Christmas will be upon us. I can imagine
how shocking these words will appear to your readers. But let us think
for a moment what Christmas means for the millions of animals and birds
which are killed annually for this festival supposedly in praise and
thanksgiving for the birth of the Prince of Peace and Lord of
Compassion. These creatures, moreover, have for the most part suffered lives, or
rather, living deaths, of darkness and confinement prior to their cruel
slaughter. Alas, the joy of Christmas is not for them. Who among your
readers can really search their consciences and still say such a
celebration is in the spirit of true Christianity? It is, in fact, a
hangover from the pagan festival celebrating the winter solstice, a
degrading compromise by the early Church. So please, ministers and lay people, stop and think what you are
actually doing when you tuck into your turkey or what-have-you. And may
this, the Christmas of Animal Welfare year (August 1976/77), see the
beginning in the Church of a swing to what is a holier, kinder and
indeed healthier lifestyle based on justice and mercy to our fellow
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