Warning – the content of this blog contains expression of Christian faith that some may find emotionally challenging
Ridiculous as the above sounds, this is precisely the kind of warning the English department at Nottingham University has applied to one of its modules entitled “Chaucer and his contemporaries”. They are apparently also applying similar warnings to the works of Langland, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve.
Written in Middle English towards the end of the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 29 pilgrims making their way to Canterbury. Dealing with themes such as courtly love and sexual desire, corruption in the Church, and moral virtue, the overall tone is humorous – even, in places, bawdy – but it remains a highly moral work, extolling the virtues of honesty and honour, and it rightly established Chaucer as the father of English literature. For Woke academics to seek to impose a trigger warning is, therefore, beyond absurd, and a targeted insult aimed at the core values on which our nation is built.
For around the last 1,500 years, the whole of our society has been founded on, and shaped by, Christian belief. Such belief underpins all of our literature – not just writers such as Chaucer and Langland, but every writer since – even those violently opposed to Christianity. Indeed, every aspect of our art, music, and intellectual endeavour … every outworking and manifestation of our culture … is shaped by Christian belief, so that if you fail to understand the Biblical background and influence on our national character, you won’t have a hope of fully appreciating what it is you are reading, listening to, seeing … or even are a part of. Let us make no mistake. Whatever the attempted vindication for such nonsense by appeals to equality and inclusivity, at heart this is a ploy aimed at undermining and ultimately destroying our heritage. It is a strategic rebranding of Christianity and our national culture, presenting it as a tool of oppression by despised and bigoted white colonialists, which must therefore be rejected.
This demonisation of Christian belief is an attack straight out of Marx, seeking to recast Biblical truth as a means of subjugation. It is Wokery beyond belief, making a mockery of academic integrity, as it exposes the ideological battle for control that is being fought over our nation. Whatever its claims, secularism is not a neutral value system seeking equality and respect for all. It is a competing and unprincipled religion whose one goal is to smash all opposition.
The suggestion that our snowflake young will be thrown into mental turmoil if confronted by ’emotionally challenging’ Christian belief must be recognised for what it is – a tool by ideologues who will allow no deviation of thought. It must be resisted.
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Followers of the Way
Aspects of the Afterlife, Part 2
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Christian discrimination –
reality or myth?
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