Christians want to wear white poppies instead of red ones as it is "more Christian." However, Remembrance Sunday and the silence on the 11/11 at 11 o clock - the reason we wear the poppies in the first place is about the people who died in WW1 (RIP). So why should we have white ones when Christanity hasn't got anything to do with it?
2006-11-09 05:31:34 · 13 answers · asked by PeachyPies 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I saw this article on www.yahoo.co.uk and it's on the front page for anyone who wants to read it.
2006-11-09 05:44:36 · update #1
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/09112006/140/poppy-row-choose-white-red.html
2006-11-09 05:47:12 · update #2
What the hell has religion got to do with this? Chritianity has absolutely nothing to do with rememberence day. Jews, christians, muslims, sikhs and almost every other religion sacrificed their young men and women in various wars and conflicts. Why does everything we do have to be hijacked by religous obsessives trying to point score over other denominations? I'm in the army and a white poppy is completely disrespectful to those that lost their lives. I knew a muslim soldier who died in Afghan this year, are white poppy wearers ignoring him?
2006-11-09 05:47:07 · answer #1 · answered by Tiger8214 1 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The text read about a think tank but it does not speak for the Christians as a whole. Because an idiot (sorry find no other word for it), likes to wear white poppies, we don't have to do this as a Christian. Let him put on his white poppie than we know who that crazy person is.
Never seen white poppies in Flanders (or other) fields.
2006-11-09 16:34:28 · answer #2 · answered by Rik 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just like most Christian ideas, that is rediculous!!! We wear the poppy in memory of the fallen soldiers. The holiday is called "Remembrance Day", not Peace Day!! There are definately not white poppies in Flanders Fields and there is nothing wrong with the red poppy, so why mess with it?
2006-11-09 13:48:37 · answer #3 · answered by biff 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The white poppy has been produced in the UK since 1933. It is a pacifist alternative to the red poppy. So the debate has nothing to do with religion, but plenty to do with attitude to war.
http://www.whitepoppy.org.uk/
I wear a white poppy, because I wish to commemorate all people who have died as a result of war, including non-combatants. In the first world war 5% of the fatalities were of civilians. In the second world war this figure was 66%. And in modern military conflicts the figure is 80-90%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,655478,00.html
2006-11-10 01:53:05 · answer #4 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
don`t see what Remembrance Sunday and red poppies have to do with religion. their supposed to commemorate the fallen of all denominations on Flanders fields during WW1and have been worn as a mark of respect ever since.
2006-11-09 14:15:26 · answer #5 · answered by puzzled? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm a christian and I don't want red poppies. That would defeat the whole object.
2006-11-11 06:14:51 · answer #6 · answered by Princess 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians are losing the plot.
The red poppy is symbolic and accepted as a token of rememberence and respect.
no amount of pressure from the PC brigade is going to make me accept white poppies gatecrashing our services.
If they must have them, let them be for an international day of peace.
2006-11-09 13:36:56 · answer #7 · answered by trebs 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I'm a christian and I have a red poppy - I've never heard of white poppies. What's wrong with red ones?
Why are some of the people answering here having a go at christians? - Has it become PC to do this???
2006-11-09 13:35:33 · answer #8 · answered by nettyone2003 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
A far as I know there were no white poppies in Flanders Field only red ones,that is why we wear them.
2006-11-09 13:34:03 · answer #9 · answered by kerrie h 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
An absolute insult to the memory of the fallen. For that is what it is , there memory.
And as most Wars have been fought in the name of Religion. They are a bunch of F#~*+$g Hypocrites.
2006-11-09 13:34:32 · answer #10 · answered by galaxy_glider 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋