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Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
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Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
April 27, 2014 at 11:17 am
Nick Clegg (Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party) has called for disestablishment of the Church of England.
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Maybe this will take less than the 20 years I predicted based on rate of decline...
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RE: Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
April 27, 2014 at 11:36 am
It was always a strangest-of-bedfellows coalition.

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RE: Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
April 27, 2014 at 2:12 pm
I don't like Clegg, but him taking a potshot at Dave following his silly 'England is a Christian country' is only to be applauded.
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RE: Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
May 18, 2014 at 5:50 pm
(April 27, 2014 at 2:12 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: I don't like Clegg, but him taking a potshot at Dave following his silly 'England is a Christian country' is only to be applauded.


Obviously - this won't be necessary - the population that actually belong to the church will dwindle to nothing all by itself
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RE: Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
May 18, 2014 at 5:57 pm
Quote:Maybe this will take less than the 20 years I predicted based on rate of decline...

Erm, the actual numbers in the CofE don't matter. Clegg is calling for the UK to no longer have an official religion. This is a matter of law, not of the number of churchgoers.

And it won't happen in any of our lifetimes.

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RE: Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
May 18, 2014 at 6:01 pm (This post was last modified: May 18, 2014 at 6:01 pm by Napoléon.)
(May 18, 2014 at 5:57 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: And it won't happen in any of our lifetimes.

Maybe not yours old man but I have a chance!
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RE: Anglican (Episcopal) Disestablishment
May 18, 2014 at 6:56 pm
(May 18, 2014 at 6:01 pm)Napoléon Wrote:
(May 18, 2014 at 5:57 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: And it won't happen in any of our lifetimes.

Maybe not yours old man but I have a chance!

Well, of course there's a chance - roughly the same chance that the YECs are right.

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