A RELIGIOUS group has sparked anger by calling for red poppies to be replaced by pacifist white ones.

It claimed the white emblems sold by peace campaigners were more Christian, while the red ones promoted and glorified war.

In the run-up to Remem-brance Day this Sunday, Jonathan Bartley, director of the religious think-tank Ekklesia, caused offence by denouncing the traditional symbol.

“The red poppy represents the glorious dead,” he said. “The white poppy says that war isn’t glorious and you shouldn’t look back and see it through rose-
tinted glasses.”

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