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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In that case just close the sodding thing down.
“The chaplains’ department recruits religious and non religious personnel” wtaf?
Another 2tk blinder?
I wonder who complained ……but really words fail me.
This is what they’re going to change it to, so says the linked article. It would never have happened were the Queen still with us;
”Instead, there will now be King Charles‘s cypher, consisting of two entwined initials – ‘C’ for his name, and ‘R’ for his title, Rex, Latin for king – beneath a crown.”
This is yet another small chip that aims to remove our Christian spirituality and Britishness. It is insidious and relentless. This morale sapping anti patriotiotic measure has been carefully calculated. Could any of those responsible explain how this adds anything, anything at all to the well-being of our soldiers?
As for Chuckles, the sooner he is removed – the whole bloody lot of them actually – the better.
Shame and embarrassment.
Quite right, ER God rest her soul would never have stood for it.
I like your handle especially the last 3 characters!
Useful stuff to have around.
Well this is a ridiculous decision and heads should roll as a result. As always, whoever is sitting at the top of the tree of any organization should take overall responsibility, so who is it in the case of the MoD? I hope some of you are sitting down……It’s a man! Again!! 😱Noooo….Did somebody drop a mic at the back? 🤭
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_the_Defence_Staff_(United_Kingdom)
It’s a white man too, but he identifies as a black disabled lesbian horse-cat and insists on using the pronouns neigh/meow.
“Horse-cat”??🐎🐈 🤣🤣🤣
Somebody bring a mop and bucket, stat!!😆 That’s quite the visual…👀
The incumbent is quoted as saying the military “runs the risk of looking ridiculous until it improves diversity and leadership”.
What?
Speaking from experience, military leadership will almost always look ridiculous, especially to those commanded by that “leadership” – regardless of its “diversity”.
Concentrate on putting the best people in role, rather than what colour they are or how they get themselves off. No-one cares.
Nobody’s impervious to the insidious woke mind virus ideology infecting their organization, seemingly. The U.S will surely fare better under anti-woke Trump, but certainly the U.K is fooked.😞 Bloody shameful, it is. “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” How is one to contend with this many traitors/acolytes in positions of authority? This is the problem.
This is a sad situation for a very proud force with a distinguished record going back hundreds of years..
My father was a chaplain with the 9th DLI during the Second World War. He had been a minister in Northern Ireland where there was no conscription, but he volunteered to serve his country, as do all chaplains. In fact, he cared for and gave a Christian burial to all who needed it, including German soldiers. With the DLI he saw some of the fiercest fighting, in North Africa, Sicily and D-Day through to Northern Germany where he ended his time of service in a military hospital caring for returning slave labourers and victims of the local concentration camps. I am immensely proud of him, and to remove the Christian symbolism of the cross is to betray the values and faith which gave meaning to his service and that of his fellow chaplains.
PS Our late Queen would never have agreed to this betrayal.