cookeaa – we have a state religion, we’re are not an ‘agnostic state’ – our head of state is also the head of our state religion and is ‘appointed’ by ‘God’.
France makes tremendous efforts to separate religion and state, the UK pays some lip service to it but, as an example, all the time a large proportion of ‘state’ schools are run by religions and make attendance at their places of worship a condition of entry we cannot claim to be a secular democracy.
Yeah if you reckon, but the to be frank the UKs “State religion” as a bit of an empty, toothless, notional religion, I mean it was invented just so the “Head of state/church” at the time could grant himself a divorce or two, any religion invented just so someone can get their end away is on shakey ground from day one really isn’t it…
Lets be fair here, I’m not compelled to worship every sunday in a church affiliated to HRH, nor am I expected to grass on or take part in lynchings of RC, Muslim, Hindu, Scientologist or indeed atheist individuals…
if we’re a “Christian Nation” why are we not beheading non-believers? That’s what serious state religions do…
Religion is only of any relevance to the religious in this country, and who ever listens to them?…
It’s not like the good old days when we could just have a crusade or two and smite the non-believers, these days we have to go to war over oil FFS…
Nah the C of E is just an irrelevant institution now, they know full well that if they were ever to try and mount a serious challenge to peoples religious freedoms or the way in which the state is administered/goverened we’d kick the shit out of them, and rightly so…