The Church of England has recently protested to the Government re discrimination. Are they right?
The UK is not a Christian Country. It is a secular society which happens to have a Christian as its Head of State. Christian worshippers are a small minority – the age when practically everyone went to Church, and the Church therefore had a hold on people and their behaviour and morals is long past. The best thing that could happen to the C of E is that it is disestablished. It should take no predence over other faiths. The Establishment is a throwback to Feudal times, the Divine Right and other obsolete practices. The C of E still has many priviliges not enjoyed by other religious faiths, including Bishops sitting in the House of Lords, vast wealth in the form of lands and other property, and control of most of the schools in the UK. It is still the Law that schoolchildren must take part in a Christian Assembly every morning, even though most children are not Christian. Are you one of those people who threw their hands up in abject horror when a clause was passed allowing non-Christia
