The only way the C of E can be reborn into the real world is for it to start from scratch. whether the Lord’s Prayer row hastens this process,so be itIt takes something special to unite Richard Dawkins, Giles Fraser, or David Cameron and the archbishop of Canterbury in a common cause,but that’s what Britain’s three biggest cinema chains have accomplished. Their refusal to screen an advert for prayer has provoked scorn and damnation – or, in more Anglican terms, and “disappointment”.
Yet,exclusive as it sounds, I think the cinemas have done the Church of England a enormous favour: they’ve given it the dose of reality it desperately needs. The C of E has no suitable to any special treatment. We still await constitutional disestablishment, or but it’s clear that we are in the midst of a cultural disestablishment. The sooner the Anglican church grasps this,the better it will be for all of us.
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Source: theguardian.com