“Britain Is No Longer a Christian Nation”
Christian Britain is dead, says the assistant Bishop of Newcastle:
Perhaps the most worrying set of statistics for the Church of England is the decline in baptisms. Out of every 1,000 live births in England in 2006/7 only 128 were baptised as Anglicans.
The figure rises by a small amount if adult baptism and thanksgiving services are included but it is hard to see the Church of England being able to justify its position as the established church on the basis of these numbers.
By way of contrast, out of every 1,000 live births in England in 1900, 609 were baptised in the Church of England. Figures for church marriages show an equally catastrophic decline.
His bizarre vision for the future shows how desperate things are:
We are going to have to invent a new civil religion. Already the process has begun with the observance of Holocaust Day and increasing focus on Human Rights as providing a shared basis for morality.
An “increasing focus on Human Rights” is a convenient thing: it takes the focus away from the government trampling on the people’s real rights – to own firearms, to defend themselves and their homes from criminals, to exercise free speech, and now, it seems, to be judged by a jury of peers, too. If the U.K.’s established church sees potential for a new religion in this, then it’s no wonder that Brits are turning away from it.
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