Churchill and the Banknote

Sir Winston Churchill is not to feature on future banknotes. This is not surprising as we tend to regularly change the faces of the national luminaries who grace our paper money: Dickens, Nightingale, Wellesley, Stephenson, even Darwin, have all had a stint in the sun. This time, though, the Bank of England has succumbed to Progressive interest groups and decided that puffins, hedgehogs and rabbits should adorn our cash, instead. Now I like wildlife, but it is human beings who once made Britain great, not fauna, and these particular creatures can be found in many other countries besides our own. Churchill was an exceptional man, and was worthy of this partucular honour, though even unexceptional humans are still God’s image-bearers. This replacing of people with animals is yet another consequence of secularism’s attriting war against sacred humanity. It demotes human beings to animals and exalts animals to humans. The pictures on a fiver do not ultimately matter, but our status before God does.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. Psalm 8:4-8

A. D

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