Comments on: What an anglican split means for secularism in the UK

By: literarydeadkittens

literarydeadkittens — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:03:01 +0000

And will this wonderful, right-wing arm of the Church be aligning itself with radical ultra-conservative private groups like those new nutcases CCFON? Given that they spawned from LCF I’m concerned that they’ll be bringing in religious laws using politicians and lawyers just as they do in America.

Fun huh?

By: heather

heather — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:09:11 +0000

While I agree, on principle , I don’t think that this split will bring the CofE any closer to being disestablished.

What it is doing is making the illiberal wing of the CofE more and more confident.

On the other hand, these right-wing Christians include some pretty scary fundamentalists, bent in taking over the international Anglican Communion. And , another major religion shifting towards fundamentalism would really be a disaster.

By: bugsoup

bugsoup — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:02:21 +0000

That makes sense. Certain traditions carry less weight if each sect has a differing belief on those tradition. If that is the case, then they can’t impose them on the rest because they don’t agree in the first place.

By: nullifidian

nullifidian — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:48:04 +0000

@bugsoup: While I agree that there will likely always be in-fighting within any church faction, I feel that if the anglican (and I mean that singular sect) were to be rent in two, they would have less pretext for maintaining their singular state-validated privileges.

My point is not to remove their influence (as citizens they have as much say in the running of this country as any of us entitled to vote) but to diminish their inordinate influence of their institution over the rest of us merely by virtue of national tradition or faux argumentum ad populum.

By: bugsoup

bugsoup — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:00:33 +0000

Ah, but you are forgetting that they will always fight together no matter how many factions they have split into. I’m not sure there will be a difference in power between a divided church and a unified church. For the purposes of presenting to the public, they will always work together for the exact reasons you think it’s good that they split.