Decline of Christianity (in England)

[Welsh cake]

70% is embarrassingly high for a secular state like the UK.

The UK isn't secular.

It is.

Its not.

England is still behind the rest of the UK in that the Church of England is still its established state religion. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have already been disestablished from their official/state religions.

In the House of Lords there are members holding seats known as the "Lords Spiritual" and of those there are currently 26. They don't vote, and they ensure Church measures are always tabled within the House so they have involvement in law-making decisions over the entire United Kingdom. Parliament itself is opened with prayers. They are invariably also given life peerages and sit as Lords Temporal.

Civil Servants such as the police force, local authorities, governmental services, various offices and departments are all subject to the Crown. The full term for the expression of the Crown's sovereignty via legislation is the Crown-in-Parliament-under-God.

At a coronation of a King or Queen, they *must* be anointed with consecrated oil by the current Archbishop of Canterbury in a service at Westminster Abbey, they cannot assume the throne without his presence, and then must swear to maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel. They *must* protect the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law in the UK. The Act of Settlement 1701 also forbids any Catholic from sitting on the throne.

England is a mess.