A couple from the Labour Humanists
The Labour Humanists have a couple of post that may be of interest to the secular humanists in the UK.
First, the tale of a couple who, from an unfortunate circumstance combined with an ancient (and frankly ridiculous) law have to fork out £200,000 to pay for repairs to a CofE church, which currently has assets worth in the region of £5bn.
Sneaky CofE (5bn assets) uses ancient laws to get ordinary citizens to pay for their churches.
Next up is no less disturbing: apparently (according to the BBC) there there are now conservative christian creationists poking out their noses to lend credence, afforded them by their position as members of parliament, to the creationist agenda.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Thanks for this, I had overlooked it on the news.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:32 am
[...] my fat aunt! As I’ve mentioned before, the anglican church currently hold in the region of £5 billion in assets, completely without any [...]