Regarding the proposed statue for St Helen's Square, I ask all those who object to the proposed statue on the grounds of religion or their own lack of religious belief: What is the Millennium a celebration of? The year 2000 without AD is nothing to celebrate. AD means Anno Domini and that means "in the year of the Lord."
To further upset those objectors who resent the religious beliefs of more than half Europe, not to mention the western hemisphere, the year 2000 AD is reckoned by the Gregorian calendar, and Gregory was a Pope!
Those who do not recognise this have nothing to celebrate as far as I can see. If we are not celebrating 2000 AD, then let us celebrate 1999 or 2007 or any old year. Whether we like it or not, the world is celebrating two thousand years since the birth of Christ. If you do not accept this, what are you celebrating?
I am aware that maybe we have got it wrong arithmetically, and maybe it is not exactly 2000 years since the birth of Christ, but once again, if you are not celebrating 2000 years of Christianity, what are you celebrating?
Let us have the statue of St Helena!
Frank Atkinson,
Oak Tree Lane,
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