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King’s Christmas Day speech criticised

King Charles delivering his Christmas Day speech.(Photo: ITV News)

King Charles has been criticised for his Christmas Day speech which suggested that each one faiths are the identical. 

The monarch’s Christmas Day address to the nation is an annual Christmas tradition that many households gather round to hearken to on the massive day. 

In his address this yr, the King said, “The example that Jesus gave us is timeless and universal. It is to enter the world of those that suffer, to make a difference to their lives and so bring hope where there may be despair.

“As the famous Christmas Carol, ‘Once In Royal David’s City’ reminds us, ‘Our Saviour holy’ ‘got here all the way down to Earth from Heaven’, lived amongst ‘the poor and mean and lowly’ and transformed the lives of those he met, through God’s ‘redeeming love’.

“That is the center of the Nativity Story and we are able to hear its beat in the assumption of all the nice faiths within the love and mercy of God in times of joy and of suffering, calling us to bring light where there may be darkness.” 

Missiologist and Home for Good founder, Dr Krish Kandiah, said that while he appreciated the King “showing hospitality to people of all faiths and none”, his comments show “a fundamental misunderstanding of either Christianity or world religions”. 

“The concept that God becomes human after which willingly dies to redeem and rescue humanity is exclusive to Christianity,” said Dr Kandiah.

“To argue that each one faiths are mainly the identical is to make a claim not backed up by serious study of faith and may very well be heard as patronizing as claiming all Asian people look the identical.

“I’m grateful for the King’s necessary work within the environment and his work on empowering young people, but I’m sorry he’s mistaken on this one.”

Other critics accused the King of syncretism and wokery. 

Speaking from the Chapel of the previous Middlesex Hospital in London, the King later spoke of how “of how diversity of culture, ethnicity and faith provides strength, not weakness”. 

Before concluding his speech, he stated, “Again, listening is a recurrent theme of the Nativity story. Mary, the Mother of Jesus, listened to the Angel who revealed to her a distinct future filled with hope for all people. The message of the Angels to the shepherds – that there must be peace on Earth – in actual fact echoes through all faiths and philosophies.”

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