Sad to see a kilt there

[Graham]

There was a brief news item about a march in Germany marking the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess.

One of the leading marchers was wearing a black kilt, it may have been a Utilikilt or similar, and had silver chains hanging to the right side.

It was sad to see a kilt worn by someone who supports such evil.
Yes I know, it doesn't make kilts bad - I understand that.

[Sciuropterus]

Not a big surprise, unfortunately. "Celtic Heritage" is a big part of the "Christian Identity" movement in the southern US, which claims that the purest races come from Celtic regions.

Read all about it!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/fe...03.shtml<br />
PS: the above link is to a "socialist" website, I do not identify with their goals- I just thought it was an interesting article.

[Graham]

You're right, but as a Christian, it's sad to see the word applied to something which is diametrically opposed to all that Christ taught..such as love, equality, anti-racism and non-violence.

so very sad, a total corruption of all that is good.

[Graham]

Oh dear Sciuropterus, that site has some seriously weird concepts, very disturbing. I appreciate you pointing it out tho' - forwarned is forearmed - so to speak.

I don't know what to say except that my interest in Celtic things is more along the Celtic Christian branch, I have no interest in the politics expressed by this site.

Thought provoking...

[Rob]

Not a big surprise, unfortunately. "Celtic Heritage" is a big part of the "Christian Identity" movement in the southern US, which claims that the purest races come from Celtic regions.

Read all about it!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/fe...03.shtml<br />
PS: the above link is to a "socialist" website, I do not identify with their goals- I just thought it was an interesting article.

That looks like pure invention to me, as the Ku Klux Klan always claimed that "WASP" (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) ancestry was the only pure form. Anglo-Saxon is hardly Celtic.

Rob

[Graham]

the purest races come from Celtic regions.

IMHO and the teaching of the Bible, the purest races came from Adam and Eve in the Mesopotamiam Valley, and we are all seriously divorced from that lineage.

There are NO pure races, we are all a mixture, but as individuals we are special!

[Sciuropterus]

That kind of stuff is alive & well in the US, unfortunately.

[macwilkin]

Our Celtic Society ran into this several years ago, and I understand other Scottish groups and games have had this problem as well. We cannot let these thugs hijack our heritage -- we responded by quoting Burns and his ideals of universal brotherhood -- "A Man's a Man for a' that" -- at our events.

T.

[GMan]

I agree, to equate kilts with something that it is driven by things that are not beneficial to the entirity of mankind, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I saw on a T-shirt today a slogan that may fit here, Let us try love.

[RockyR]

May I politely but firmly state that such is not Christian at all?

The Bible speaks of some having a "Form of godliness but denying the power thereof, from such turn away." Those people don't even have the form of it..

It's too bad many cannot see that just because they say they are Christians, that they truly are not, They say they teach and heal in Jesus name but Jesus will say to them at the judgement day, "depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you."

They soil the ground for those who truly are His. and cause some to shut out the word of God altogether because of what has been said in his name.