Apologies to all the religious folk I have offended recently. Religion no longer plays any part in my work or home life, so I can't really complain about what other people do in their own time.
Good post. No problem will all of it except the last bit. Organised belief, especially in an imaginary deity, is delusional. Doing good things is good, and doing it under the auspices of a club or friends society is great. Having a ceremony where you drink the imaginary blood of a long dead...
tbh, my post was mainly a rant against religion. CoE certainly has investments.....shareholdings that have on occasion raised an eyebrow....fair bit of property.... a decommissioned church down my road has just been sold... anyway...moving on...
As a business, any religion should pay tax. Churches are not charities. If they were they would not be able to discriminate over beneficiaries with respect to religion. Catholic schools expect pupils to be catholic, for example. Ergo, not a charity.
Unfortunately, if we want to give the CoE a...