He's 2000 years too late.
Popular Christmas carols contain "nonsense", and adults who sing them should be embarrassed, the Bishop of Croydon has said in a book.
The Rt Rev Nick Baines criticised adults singing Away In A Manger "as if it related to reality".
The bishop also suggested that the last word of the title O Come All Ye Faithful be changed to "faithless".
He said Christmas was being sentimentalised into a fairy story, which he said was "tragic".
In a book entitled Why Wish You a Merry Christmas?, the bishop wrote: "I always find it a slightly bizarre sight when I see parents and grandparents at a nativity play singing Away In A Manger as if it actually related to reality.
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