Today is St George’s Day, the day when the English celebrate their Patron Saint.

It’s also a day when woke Lefties make enormous intellectual fools of themselves as they lay bare their contempt for the working classes and English tradition.

#StGeorgesDay

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They do this mainly by trying to argue that St. George was Turkish, probably died in Palestine and was therefore Muslim and probably a bit brown-skinned too.

Take that Gammon, bigots! Owned!
St George was actually a Christian who was born around the year AD 280 in Cappadocia, land that is now inside Turkey, but was then part of the Roman Empire.
The modern state of Turkey didn’t exist at the time.

Turkey only came into existence in 1923 - out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire - about 1600 years after St George’s life.
During St George’s lifetime Cappadocia was a hugely important Christian region, particularly to the development of Christian monasticism.

It’s mentioned in the New Testament, in the Book of Acts, as one of the first places to receive the Gospel.
It remained Christian for many centuries after St George’s life despite waves of Islamic colonisation and conquest of the land and its surroundings.

Here is a Christian fresco from a Cappadocian church.
Christian life in Cappadocia eventually came to an end in the early decades of the 20th Century following waves of genocidal massacres and expulsions of Christians from the Ottoman Empire – the Armenian Genocide is the most famous of these massacres. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/armenian-genocide
When St George was alive Islam didn’t exist.

The man who invented Islam – Mohammed - was still a few centuries away from being born, far, far way on the Arabian peninsula.
Nobody knows what St George looked like or what colour skin he had.

Nor does anyone apart from woke Lefties appear to care. He’s been depicted with all manner of skin tone.
St George became a significant figure in the Christian world because he was martyred for his faith.

He had served in the Romas elite Praetorian Guard, protecting the Emperors, and had stayed true to his beliefs at a time when the Roman Empire was persecuting Christians.
Rome had done this for several hundred years before Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

At its most grim, this persecution included Christians being killed by wild animals for public entertainment.
For this steadfastness and for his attempts to defend Christians, St George paid the ultimate price and was murdered – beheaded – on April 23 AD 303, probably in the Roman province of Palestine.
Word of St George’s courage and commitment gradually spread and encouraged people far and wide.

Woke Lefties find honour and sacrifice triggering.

They prefer to demand that other people fix their problems with other people’s money.
The first documented reference to St George in England was in the writings of the Venerable Bede who lived between 673 and 735.
Many centuries later, England’s King Edward III, when setting up the chivalric Order of the Garter in the 1340s, took inspiration from the story of St George and made him the Patron Saint of England.
St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle is the spiritual home of the prestigious order which continues to this day.
Other Christian countries, as wide ranging as Ethiopia and Russia, also honour and celebrate St George, for similar reasons as the English.
The origins of the myth of St George slaying the Dragon are more shrouded, but can be dated to the Middle Ages and likely stem from him defending Christianity and thus helping to both preserve the faith and bring more people to it.
Some point out that Christians have often used the Dragon to symbolise evil or the Devil, although the image is pre-Christian in origin.
It’s curious, though, isn’t it, that all the clever, little Lefties don’t tell us that St George probably never even slew a Dragon.

Cause, I mean, who’d have thought it!

That really would be a revelation!

Happy St. George’s everyone.
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