The cross is set to be removed from the badge of Army chaplains as part of efforts to make the department more diverse and multicultural. The Mail has the story.
The cross is set to be removed from the badge of Army chaplains in a “woke” move condemned by a former military chief.
Members of the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, which was formed in 1796, wear a cap badge which has either a Maltese Cross or a Star of David at its centre.
However, as part of efforts to make the department more “diverse and multicultural”, there are plans for the badge to be shorn of all religious symbolism, the Daily Mail can disclose.
An image of the proposed badge obtained by this newspaper shows that the Maltese Cross, associated with the medieval Knights of St. John and worn by Christian padres, or the Star of David for their Jewish counterparts – are to be expunged. So, too, is the motto which encircles those images: “In This Sign Conquer”. …
Former head of the Army Lord Dannatt expressed his dismay at the radical change, warning that the raison d’etre of the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department was being imperilled.
“It’s very disappointing to see the removal of the Maltese Cross and the Star of David,” he told the Daily Mail last night. “These are important religious symbols which are at the heart of what the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department has always stood for.”
The Ministry of Defence… has… made clear its enthusiasm for abandoning the Judeo-Christian tradition of the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, whose patron – equivalent to colonel – is Queen Camilla.
“The Royal Army Chaplains’ Department is an increasingly diverse and multicultural organisation which recruits both religious and non-religious personnel,” says the MoD website, adding that it accepts applications from people who are “in good standing with their relevant belief or faith community”.
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