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London School of Economics cancels words ‘Lent’ and ‘Easter’

Christian leaders criticized the decision

The London School of Economics will remove Christian terminology from its academic calendar starting in the next school year to be more inclusive.

Traditionally the college used Christian words such as Lent, Easter break and Michaelmas in its calendar.

Michaelmas is a feast day named for St. Michael the Archangel.

Now the university will use names like “winter” and “autumn” and “spring.”

LSE said, according to The Telegraph, that “these new names use more accessible and widely-recognised terminology, and better reflect the international nature of our community and our broader global engagement.”

Christian leaders criticized the decision.

“We have been warning for years that Christians are being pushed from the public square, yet the problem is getting worse,” Simon Calvert of The Christian Institute, told the Telegraph.

He said further:

Christians and those with traditional views often find themselves silenced or bullied. It’s particularly ironic when this happens at institutions that were originally founded on Christian principles and with endowments from Christian benefactors.

So, this ludicrous decision by the LSE to rebrand traditional academic terms, by scrapping references to the calendar of the established Church, is more virtue-signalling nonsense that creates exclusion in the name of inclusivity.

“LSE is whitewashing Christ from the calendar,” Calvin Robinson, a deacon in the Free Church of England, wrote on Twitter. “The fall of Britain,” the black deacon wrote in response to the story as well.

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Matt has previously worked at Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action and Turning Point USA. While in college, he wrote for The College Fix as well as his college newspaper, The Loyola Phoenix. He previously interned for government watchdog group Open the Books. He holds a B.A. from Loyola University-Chicago and an M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He lives in northwest Indiana with his family.