this little act<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s nothing on one hand.\u00a0 A tree venerated for centuries by Christians.\u00a0 That sort of symbolic pilgrim stuff that our modern elites and super smart types typically snort at in derision.\u00a0 But why chop it down?\u00a0 Why destroy it?\u00a0 Maybe it wasn\u2019t done just because it was Christian.\u00a0 But at best, it was done despite it being a Christian monument.\u00a0 And that\u2019s disturbing enough.\u00a0 Certainly it\u2019s no surprise, England being what it\u2019s become.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It shouldn\u2019t be surprising that a country whose celebrities and icons spend so much time trashing Christianity would produce this little act.\u00a0 It\u2019s nothing on one hand.\u00a0 A tree venerated for centuries by Christians.\u00a0 That sort of symbolic pilgrim stuff that our modern elites and super smart types typically snort at in derision.\u00a0 But why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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