"Christian" Focus

On 2nd July 2020, I sent the following message to Christian Focus in response to their post:

Your blog post of 12th May 2020 is a disgrace. Florence Nightingale was vehemently and actively anti-Christian. Any research of her published writings makes that transparent. She tore up the Bible and was frequently blasphemous. Her family was highly dysfunctional so to reimagine them through the prism of a "Chalet School" style of writing is grossly inappropriate and layering myth upon myth. And to crown it all, she refused to believe that germs existed, so the idea of her enforcing scrupulous hygiene is laughable. Under her supervision, she had the hospital with the highest death rate of any in the Crimea. Whether you aim to celebrate her as a Christian or a nurse, a modicum of research would set you straight. You say that you would not consider publishing anything against the reformed faith. Very good, then I trust you will stop selling "Ten Girls Who Made History" and promoting this idol.

At the time of writing, no reply has been forthcoming.

Idols and the perversion of Florence Nightingale

For over two years I have been researching and writing for a book about idols who are accepted as Christian (or accepted by Christians). The adoration of such idols makes them millstones around our neck. We are encouraged to act in imitation of them, to construe their behaviour as Christian, even though on closer inspection they disregarded most of God’s commands and set themselves up as saviours of mankind. By worshipping such men and women, we lead others into idolatry and far from their duty before God.

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