CEP: 'God's good servants but the Government's first'
The latest CEP press release tackles the Church of England's inclination towards ignoring England's national day.
What the response of the bishops indicates is that the great majority of them share with both UK Government and the UK Establishment an attitude of disdain towards England, their country, the country of which they are the Established Church, an attitude of disdain towards English patriotic sentiment, something never found in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, an attitude not just one of indifference towards a sense of national identity and belonging, but also of hostility towards England itself as a distinct nation -their nation despite themselves. They are in England but not of it. Hostility towards the concept of Englishness runs very deep within the UK Government and Establishment to which the bishops belong.
It didn't always used to be that way.
"The Church of England is the most venerable and the most influential of all the factors which have gone into making English history and English character. Broadly and deeply planted in the land, mixed up with all our manners and customs, one of the main guarantees of our local government, and therefore one of the prime securities of our common liberties, the Church of England...is part of our history, part of our life, part of England itself." - Bishop George Bell
Given the attitude of the Church of England towards England the nation - with the honourable exception of John Sentamu - I think disestablishment and a name change is long overdue.
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Disestablishment doesn't go
Disestablishment doesn't go far enough for me it wants closing down completely and it's lands returning to the English people.
I hadn't thought about the
I hadn't thought about the CofE doing this. Why would they?
Not content with calling for
Not content with calling for the English to be defeated, now the Lib Dem MEP for the East of England has declared war on the rebellious Irish too.
‘MEP queries legal basis for Ireland’s Lisbon guarantees’
Liberal MEP Andrew Duff, who is one of three MEPs who sat on the intergovernmental conference that drew up the treaty, told journalists yesterday that adding an Irish-specific protocol with the legal guarantees to an accession treaty was not legally possible.
“Adding this protocol to the Croatian accession treaty would leave the treaty wide open to attack in the courts,” said Mr Duff.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0402/1224243854498.html
(Background: in 2007 Duff said: ”They are following in the slip stream of the English - which is the prominent eurosceptical country. If the English can be defeated then the opposition in Prague will disappear”.)
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[...] Previously I wrote: Given the attitude of the Church of England towards England the nation - with the honourable exception of John Sentamu - I think disestablishment and a name change is long overdue. [...]