Church of England attendance plunges to record low

[darkbeaver]

Even if the Church of England dies, the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible will survive for as long as people read English. That version might be full of translation errors, and some significant (mostly in its Old Testament) which make it a poor scholarly translation, but its elegance still makes it the best literary translation into the English language today.

That version of the Holy Bible is the Church of England's greatest literary contribution to the world.

I can't say the same for the Book of Common Prayer though. Unlike the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible which many non-Anglican English-speakers read, only Anglicans read the Book of Common Prayer for the most part. If that Church sinks, so will the Book of Common Prayer along with it.

Even if the Church of England dies, the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible will survive for as long as people read English. That version might be full of translation errors, and some significant (mostly in its Old Testament) which make it a poor scholarly translation, but its elegance still makes it the best literary translation into the English language today.

That version of the Holy Bible is the Church of England's greatest literary contribution to the world.

I can't say the same for the Book of Common Prayer though. Unlike the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible which many non-Anglican English-speakers read, only Anglicans read the Book of Common Prayer for the most part. If that Church sinks, so will the Book of Common Prayer along with it.

I doubt very much the present version will be the last version, the language has changed many times. Scribes are always busy, fine tuning the appreciation of God as he/she evolves. Fifty years from now there will be a chapter called Bowie.

That was an unwarrented red Walter. You deny history. Do you believe Jesus preached in English?

 

[Ludlow]

What are the attendance figures for other Christian denominations?

the mega churches are popular what with the tv preachers and the like. More entertaining.

 

[taxslave]

As the education level goes up the reliance on mythology goes down.

 

[coldstream]

450 year in the making.. since Henry VIII severed the branch from the root.. the sap has run dry for the Church of England.

It's final years have been marked by apostacy, blind conformity to a culture gratification and narcissism. It has lost all sense of origins, character, integrity, responsibility.

It has long lost any resemblance to Christianity.. discarding scripture when it interferes with its championing of homosexuality, promiscuity, radical feminism, pagan antihuman environmentalism, euthenasia, abortion and other manifestations of the Culture of Death that now reigns in the West.. replaced with an empty and meaningless adherence to 'tolerance' and 'inclusion'.

Benedict XVI instigated the seeds of an Anglican Rite within the Catholic Church to receive those who could find nothing substantial in Faith of what has become the Church of 'Yes'.. where anything goes.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

400 year in the making.. since Henry VIII severed the branch from the root.. the sap has run dry. It's final years have been marked by apostacy, blind conformity to a culture gratification and narcissism.

It has long lost any resemblance to Christianity.. discarding scripture when it interferes with its championing of homosexuality, promiscuity, radical feminism, euthenasia, abortion and other manifestations of the Culture of Death that now reigns in the West.

Benedict XVI instigated the seeds of an Anglican Rite within the Catholic Church to receive those who could find nothing substantial in Faith of what has become the Church of 'Yes'.. where anything goes. And frankly it has become so ethereal that the few adherants left couldn't be bother attending its meaningless 'sacraments'.

Whatever happened to the good ol' church of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the rapist priest?

Them was the good old days.

 

[petros]

Im pretty sure there is a real run down ****ty one next to the highway in Upsala Ontario for sale

Across from the Ultramar?

 

[Cannuck]

What are the attendance figures for other Christian denominations?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_attendance

As the education level goes up the reliance on mythology goes down.

And yet people are still into homeopathy, naturopathy and other types of quackery.

 

[French Patriot]

Schools must teach that Britain is 'mainly Christian' and need not cover atheism, says Nicky Morgan | Education | News | The Independent


Compare what this link says to the O.P.


It seems the Brits do not know what they want to believe or teach.


I also find it strange that the Queen is the head of the Church of England yet could not be voted in as a Bishop till last this year.


What a strange world we have created when the head of a church cannot be the head of a misogynous church.


Regards
DL

 

[Curious Cdn]

the mega churches are popular what with the tv preachers and the like. More entertaining.

They also tend to attract the great gullible unwashed, sort of like the way that the Tea Party types do.